Isildur1 made a well-publicised return to the high-stakes games on Full Tilt Poker this year after his rise and fall to the tune of $6,000,000 in 2009. In a period of less than two days, the Swedish over-aggressor earned the better part of $1.5m.

During this period he played some much-anticipated – yet anti-climactic – rematches with Brian Hastings and Tom “durrrr” Dwan, to whom he lost $4.2m and won $5m respectively. However, most of his money in 2010 came at the hands of Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo.

Their largest pot totalled up at $416,000. It was a classic Omaha coin-flip as Isildur1’s set couldn’t escape Townsend’s huge flush. Isildur1 lead out for $7,800 into a $11,000 pot on a 3-bet flop of Kh-5h-6d then 3-bet Townsend’s raise to $84,600. The CardRunners instructor called and the money flew in on a Tc turn.