In J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” anthology, Isildur is one of the kings of the great kingdom of Gondor. He is best known for cutting the infamous, “one ring to rule them all,” off the evil Lord Sauron’s finger and saving the world from complete destruction. Then, rather than destroy the ring, he insisted on holding on to it because of his own greed and hubris, resulting in his subsequent murder and the second great battle for Middle Earth that we all went and saw the Peter Jackson version of at the movies a few years ago.

Considering the action at the Full Tilt tables over the past 48 hours, the name Isildur1 is eerily fitting for the mystery Swede. After being up nearly $6 million just a couple of weeks ago, Isildur1 is now in the red, thanks to brutal sessions against Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies, Brian Townsend, Patrik Antonius and Cole South that saw him drop more than $2.5 million in the span of a day.  Rather than drop down stakes or take a break, Isildur1 seems content to go for broke, still challenging players to $500/$1,000 stakes even though his bankroll appears to be nearing the life support stage.

While Isildur1’s bankroll went into freefall mode, Tom “durrrr” Dwan sucked it up and dropped down stakes and spent his Tuesday grinding away at $25/$50 and $50/$100, but couldn’t resist taking another shot at his Swedish nemesis in some ring game action before the day was done. While durrrr was busy trying to build his decimated bankroll back up, here is how  Isildur1’s massive downswing left him with almost nothing after action on Monday and Tuesday:

Monday began with an afternoon session with Brian Townsend, who appears to have figured out a lot about the mystery man’s game. He grabbed another half million off the unknown player, bringing his total winnings against Isildur1 up around $2 million. One player who has been doing even better against Isildur1 as of late is Sahamies, who was next up to take a shot at his new favorite foe.

While Isildur1 was able to battle back from a seven figure deficit on Sunday, he would not be so fortunate on Monday and Sahamies took more than $1 million on the session. The biggest pot of their match came when Isildur1 raised to $3,000, Sahamies made it $9,000 to go and Isildur1 called. The flop fell 843 and Ziigmund bet out the size of the pot. Isildur1 raised to $56,000 and Ziigmund made it $186,000 to go, leaving $130,000 behind. Isildur1 raised enough to put Ziigmund all-in and Sahamies called with A5K4 for a pair, a straight draw and the nut flush draw. Isildur1 held 3679 for top and bottom pair. The Q on the turn made Ziigmund’s flush and the 6 on the river guaranteed the $652,972 pot went to Sahamies.

In the wee hours of Tuesday morning is when Isildur1’s fortune went from bad to worse. First, he sat with Antonius, who was finally able to turn things around for himself and he too picked up $1 million plus off Isildur1. Here is a couple if hands from the session that helped pad Patrik’s profits:

Sitting with $195,000 to Isildur1’s $245,000, Antonius made it $2,000 to go and Isildur1 reraised to $6,200 and the reraising continued until each player put in $56,600 preflop. The money then went all-in on the KT7 flop with Isildur1 holding AA84 for the overpair to KQJT for two pair. The J on the turn was no help to Isidur1 and the 9 on the river improved Antonius to a straight to give him the $391,576 pot.

Patrik took another $164,000 off the Swede when he raised to $2,000 preflop, Isildur1 made it $6,2000 and Antonius called. The flop fell 842, Isildur1 bet $8,400 and Antonius called. The turn brought the 9 and Isildur1 fired once again. Antonius called and the two went to the river, which came 6. Isildur1 slowed down and checked to Antonius, who bet out $71,400. Isildur1 check-raised all-in and Antonius called, tabling QT87 for a ten high straight, which had Isildur1’s 5789 for a nine-high straight bested. Antonius raked in the $328,195 pot and Isildur1’s painful downswing continued.

Rather than quit, Isildur1 took on Cole South next. Eager to win big, Isildur1 tried to convince his opponent to play $500/$1,000, but South insisted on $200/$400 stakes. Despite the smaller stakes, the pots were still substantial. Isildur1 was up early thanks to a nearly $250,000 hand in which isildur1 rivered a flush to South’s flopped set of threes, but South rallied to turn a sizeable profit of more than $800,000.

While South tangled with Isildur1, several players tried to get in on the action, perhaps realizing that this could be the last chance they had to tango with the mystery Swede. After all, at this point, most of the railbirds believed he had basically the rest of his bankroll on the table. First Ziigmund took a seat at the South/Isildur1 extravaganza and South implored him to pick up:

Cole South: ziig cmon man
Ziigmund: 500 10000
Cole South: we are in a big match
Cole South: been playin all day
Cole South: dont try to kill my game plz
Ziigmund: ok
Cole South: gl
Ziigmund: sure
Ziigmund: who is up?
Ziigmund: if u wont answer i kill your game
Cole South: sorry i was goin to bathroom lol
Cole South: i am up
Ziigmund: how much?
Ziigmund: tell amount
Ziigmund: or i kill your game
Cole South: i dunno not sure how much i started with
Cole South: plz act like a professional

This would not be the only time South tangled with someone in the chat box. Rafi “howisitfeellike” Amit sat down a little while later and refused to pick up, despite South’s insistence this was a heads-up match:

Cole South: neither of us want to play with some shortstack nit in the middle

Amit ignored South’s chat and when Antonius sat shortly thereafter, Amit insisted he was more than welcome, thus ending South and Isildur1’s heads-up match. South picked up shortly thereafter and the group sparred in the ring game for a while before calling it a day.  After dropping more than $2.5 million in the span of one day and more than $5 million from his high point, Isildur1’s profits are gone completely and he is left to wonder if he will suffer the same fate as his namesake, or turn it around before it is too late.

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