Full Tilt Poker’s The Fall Of Isildur1 (to Brian Hastings)
The celebrity excitement at Full Tilt Poker’s nosebleed tables continues with another due humbling. After all this jockeying back and forth between Dwan and Antonius, with a few good volleys from Ivey and Sahamies and a few others, this new wunderkind on the block Isildur1 comes along and sweeps the table up with the lot of them (well, mostly Dwan while the others steered clear) to the tune of something like $6 mil.
It was beginning to look like someone had not just all the pros beat but the very game itself beat, until one of Isildur1’s fellow new wunderkinds on the block (and one less shy about letting his name and face be known) Brian Hastings has come along to remind us all that no poker player is infallible. Unless, of course, maybe that player is Brian Hastings – who took that smug smile at wiped it off Isildur1’s avatar.
After being up to nearly $2 million last Tuesday ($1 mil of it to Jungleman12 and Brian Townsend), Isildur1 dropped $4.2 into Brian Hastings’ pocket after 2,861 hands across six different $500/$1,000 Pot Limit Omaha tables at Full Tilt Poker. A Cardrunners poker prof., Brian Hastings is just 21 years old and seems to be sizing up as the new face of reason in young poker, with a patient and measured approach to the game that has him up $5 million for the year.
Why do we call it a due humbling? Because, without debasing ourselves with the details, it appears from the chatbook replays that the unnamed Swede is quite the sore loser.
