December 22, 2009

It was too good to be true. Brian Hastings defied “Isildur1″ finishing the match with a win of $ 4 million, nearly clearing the account of the mysterious Full Tilt Poker Swedish. However, a bad situation came to light after a story written by Gary Wise on ESPN.com about that game session. In this story, a careless Hastings revealed that he and two other Team CardRunners and Full Tilt pros, Brian Townsend and Cole SouthWho have all played against Isildur1, shared their individual hand histories to study how to play the Swede.

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In an interview with Wise on ESPN.com, Hastings said “we did a major study of his game. Honestly, I have to give much of the credit to Townsend. I mean, Brian is the one who works harder on poker. He has analyzed a database of hands heads-up play from Isildur1 identifying a series of moves that Isildur1 ago in certain circumstances. Somehow, I’m sorry it was me who won instead of Brian. I’m obviously happy about the win, but Brian did a great job. The three of us discussed set of many hands and the report made by Brian, I am so grateful to him and Cole. ”

The admission of having shared a database of hands is a direct violation of the TOS at Full Tilt declaring: “Hand History Database, including the subscription service and exchange of personal databases: The use and sharing of hand histories that provide detailed information about an opponent with whom there was a short or no experience of playing against, is considered an unfair advantage. Violation of this conduct is subject to the maximum penalty for use of prohibited programs. ”

“Players are not allowed to use the hand histories of hands that did not participate personally. Programs that are designed to gather information about the hand history of matches in which players have participated shall be prohibited. ”

As the discussion was animated on TwoPlusTwo.com Last weekend, the head of PokerNews TonyG made assessments on his blogClaiming to be aware of the fact that the same Isildur1 going to submit a formal appeal to Full Tilt Poker. Tony G has also posted some comments issued on South Cole TwoPlusTwo, In which he denied that he behaved inappropriately, “I have not violated the rules of the site in any way.”

While there are no comments yet official Hastings, Brian Townsend discussed the situation on the his blog. Townsend admitted he used 20.000 hands played against Isildur1 combining them with other hands that has acquired 30.000. Then analyzed and shared his thoughts on the game Isildur1 with Hastings and South. In addition, Townsend informed in his blog that his status as a Full Tilt Poker Red Pro was suspended for a month.

It is rumored that Hastings has been suspended, but we can not confirm.

Always at the moment does not appear that the $ 4 million has been repaid to Isildur1 and it is unclear whether there will be the return of that figure.

PokerNews has reached Full Tilt Poker, CardRunners and is trying to get in touch with Isildur1 for comment on the situation. We will provide all updates as soon as we have them.

UPDATE 11:34 a.m.: CardRunners informed PokerNews that there will be statements from Brian Hastings. Hastings has also refused to be interviewed.

UPDATE 6:27 p.m.: PokerNews has just done an interview with “Isildur1″ to be published tomorrow.

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