Isaac Haxton Defeats Viktor Blom in SuperStar Showdown

March 14th, 2012 | 9:11 am

Two of the world's best heads-up players played their long-awaited SuperStar Showdown rematch on Tuesday, and Isaac Haxton made an amazing comeback to get the best of the man known as Isildur1.

By Matt Kaufman, Rakeback.com Poker News Editor

Team PokerStars Pro Viktor "Isildur1" Blom believes he's the best heads-up NLHE player in the world, and unlike most players who make that claim he's willing to play anyone in order to prove it.

The SuperStar Showdown is a series of heads-up matches he has participated in against many of the world's best heads-up specialists (and a few people who just had the cash to participate...). His record has been unbelievable:

The only individuals who have beaten Blom in a match have been Isaac Haxton and Daniel Negreanu - and Negreanu is an overall loser to Blom anyway due to their first match.

This week, Isaac Haxton was set to play a rematch with Isildur1, and the poker world got very excited over the prospect of watching perhaps the 2 best heads-up NLHE players in the world go to battle again.

In their first day of play, Haxton went down nearly $100,000 before a storm in Malta caused his internet connection to break. A few days later, the island had recovered from the storm and Haxton got back to work, starting off by losing an additional $30,000.

From that moment, however, the tides turned quite a bit and Haxton managed a $200,000 positive swing to take the lead. Isildur1 climbed back a bit, but the match ended with Haxton the victor by a margin of just $5,093. We recommend you check out some details on the biggest hands over at the PokerStars Blog, and we hope we'll get to witness these two poker legends go head-to-head again sometime soon!