Once again the record books need to be updated as the previous record for the largest online poker pot was once again smashed by a monster pot of $1,356,946.50.
This time around the hand included well known poker pro Patrik Antonius and unknown Swede “Isildur1“, prior to the hand both players were stacked at a high stakes $500/$1000 Pot Limit Omaha game at Full Tilt with Isildur1 having about $678k and Antonius approximately $1.26 million.

Preflop the pot was already $160,000 as both players raised and reraised each other.

All the recent action and large pot activity at FullTilt by the unknown Isildur1 begs the question to be asked, just who is Isildur1?

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We would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas playing poker and hope you all take full advantage of this season, which sees many beginners around for easy picking. Many poker rooms are also offering a variety of Christmas Poker bonus promotions and events that always add for extra incentive.

With the festive season now in full swing, many of the poker rooms are well populated throughout the day by the working class people on holiday looking to pass some time and test their luck playing poker online. PokerStars for one had an excess of 38,000 real money players followed closely by FullTilt Poker with a little over 18,000 playing for real which provides us all with bigger better tournaments and shorter waiting times. The poker Christmas season is always a prime time to find fish in abundance mainly due to many newbie’s trying their luck after watching poker being glorified on TV thinking what’s so hard about that?

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