Lodden: “Isildur1 is young and doesn’t understand the value of the cash”

• Author: Qid
• Filed under: Ilari Sahamies, Isildur1, Johnny Lodden, Patrik Antonius, Poker, Ziigmund, bad_ip, durrrr
• Date: Dec 3,2009

Johnny Lodden was the online poker player everybody was talking about few years ago, when he played online under the nickname “bad_ip”. Nowadays Lodden doesn’t play online high stakes anymore and has focused more on competing in live tournaments. But the PokerStars pro still remembers the time when he was young and reckless high stakes gambler.

“It was pretty crazy,” says Lodden about the record pot that he lost to Kowssarie. “I might have smashed my computer. I smashed a lot of computers back in the day.”

In 2006, games were lot smaller than today and highest games were played with $200/$400 blinds, mostly at Microgaming Network, formerly known as Prima Poker Network. Just 21 years old at the time, Lodden couldn’t properly understand the value of money he was winning or losing.

“When you have the money online it’s different,” Lodden said. “If I had a briefcase in front of me with $3 million it would be different thing. When you just have chips and numbers on a computer, you just treat it differently.”

Lodden feels that Isildur1 is in a same place where he was three years ago, playing against best in the world in Patrik Antonius, Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies, all players which Lodden has played against when he was active in high stakes circuit.

“I think he’s young and doesn’t understand the value of the cash,” he said. “But I love his No-Limit (Hold’em) game. I mean, he’s really good at (Pot-Limit Omaha) but he’s much better at No-Limit (Hold’em).”

Even though norwegian Lodden made a reputation as being one of the most fearsome cash game players in the world, he says he is more than happy playing live tournaments these days.

“I really want to do well in live tournaments because this is the thing everybody cares about.” Lodden says. “I love to play tournaments, especially the EPTs and nowadays I’m not playing so high, so I have to grind it out in these.”

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