Isildur1 Mulls Formal Complaint at Full Tilt Poker

December 28 - Isildur1, the mysterious Swedish high stakes player who refuses to make his identity known to the online poker community, is mulling a formal complaint at Full Tilt Poker over data mining.

Players such as Brian Hastings, Brian Townsend and Cole South have made it their mission to beat the player who has won many millions off some of the best poker pros in the industry.

In a recent session of Pot Limit Omaha, Hastings caused quite a stir at Full Tilt Poker after intense heads up competition against Isildur1, finally walking away with $4.2 million.

It seemed that Hastings had cracked the Swede's code, and he later confirmed this by stating in an interview: "Honestly, I give most of the credit to Brian Townsend here. He analyzed a database of heads up hands that Isildur1 had played and constructed ranges of what Isildur1 was doing in certain spots."

That bit of information is what caused Isildur1 to consider placing a complaint to Full Tilt Poker that Townsend, Cole and Hastings went against the site's official terms and conditions which state: "The use of shared hand histories provides detailed information on opponents a player has little or no personal experience playing against, and is deemed to be an unfair advantage. Violating this policing is subject to the maximum penalties for prohibited software use."

Isildur1 said in a later interview that he was not initially aware of the exact rule, "but since seeing that is in fact a rule at Full Tilt Poker, I think I am going to put in a formal complaint as I think this is a case where the sharing of hand histories directly affected the match I played with Brian Hastings."

Isildur1 said that Townsend and Cole were always waiting to play him. "The last session where Hastings won all the money, it just felt like something was wrong," he said. "Everything that could go wrong for me did. Every time I tried to pull off a bluff of some kind, it felt as if it was being picked off."