"Isildur1" has had his hands full recently with all of the big guns online. However, Tuesday night's session wasn't with Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, Tom Dwan or even Brian Townsend. Brian Hastings joined the flurry of high-stakes action against "Isildur1" and wrapped up a 2,861-hand session with a cool $4.2 million. The sad thing is that "Isildur1" wasn't even having a bad day until his encounter with Hastings. Playing against Brian Townsend and "Jungleman12," "Isildur1" was actually up more than $1 million. He peaked at over $2 million once the match with Hastings began, and then it was all downhill from there. The unknown online action junkie lost more than $3.4 million on Tuesday. Ouch.

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Last night we saw one of the most unbelievable turnarounds in fortunes that has ever been witnessed at the high stakes tables. It seemed to be another massive day for Isildur1 , winning $471K from Jungleman12 at $100/$200 NLHE and $722K from Brian Townsend at $500/$1000 PLO. He stayed well in the green all throughout the period, even peaking as high as $2M, but things were about to change.

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Last week, I wrote about the fact that the largest pot in online poker history had just taken place. At $878,958.50, Patrik Antonius defeated "Isildur1" to make history and at the same time, become even richer. About the time I finished last week's article, I said to myself that it might not last. Given the volatility of the last few weeks in the high stakes realm, it was really no shock that the first million-dollar pot would take place. Once again, Antonius defeated "Isildur1" -- but this time, the stakes were significantly higher as he raked in a pot of $1,356,946.50.

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Although the WSOP main event has finally wrapped up, the news in the poker industry has been anything but stale. After the announcement that Jeffrey Pollack was stepping down as commissioner of the World Series of Poker, attention turned to the online poker rooms for a number of reasons.

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This weekend, we saw a new player wanting to see how he measured up against the best high stakes players online. His nick is ‘Isildur1’ and apparently he is playing out of Sweden. His style can only be described as hyper aggressive, but from the first results we have seen, it might seem that he is too aggressive. It is not easy to run over the opposition at these tables, so in a 24 hour period and almost 4000 (!) hands, he finds himself down $513K in total for his No-Limit sessions. However, on the 22nd of October he had a very good PLO $100/200 session where he won around $400K against Haseeb Qureshi.

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Ilari Sahamies, better known as "Ziigmund" on Full Tilt Poker, was the first player to ever top the $1 million dollar mark on "RailHeaven" earlier today. "RailHeaven" is the $500/$1000 high-stakes No Limit Hold'em cash game that occasionally runs on the site. The table usually features some of the best players in the world, including Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, David Benyamine and Tom "Durrrr" Dwan.

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