Every era in poker has that one mysterious figure who arrives out of nowhere, swings millions, breaks rules and disappears before the dust settles.

In 2009, online poker found its legend.

A screen name began appearing in the highest-stakes tables on Full Tilt Poker, battling the very players who were considered unbeatable:

Unlike other players he didn’t start small,

⚔ He sat directly in the $500/$1,000 No-Limit and PLO games waiting for someone to battle with him.

The name was simple:

Isildur1.

Back then, the best high-stakes players studied each other for months before taking a shot.

Not Isildur.

He opened junk, 3-bet relentlessly & blasted rivers with air, because why not?

The craziest part? He was winning. 📈

Within weeks, he had taken over $5,000,000 💰 from some of the greatest players on Earth.

For a while, Dwan was unstoppable, he was the king of Full Tilt. Nobody beat him heads-up…until Isildur showed up and dismantled him in front of thousands of people watching live. 🎞

But no legend burns forever.

After weeks of impossible aggression, sleepless nights, and marathon sessions, Isildur sat against another monster: Brian Hastings.

The swing was so violent, so surreal, that HighStakesDB had to re-check the numbers three times.

It became one of the biggest losing sessions in the history of online poker. 📉

🔍 Nobody knew who was behind the screen. Theories such as “It’s Ivey undercover” or “It’s a group of players” where speculating.

Until January 2011, when PokerStars shocked the world by revealing him publicly at the PCA.

ISILDUR1 = Viktor Blom, a quiet, skinny kid from Sweden…but already a legend.

He loved one thing:
Action. 🔥