First Superstar Showdown Match results

December 20th, 2010

The first match of the Superstar Showdown Match on Pokerstars kicked off on Sunday with Viktor Blom screen name Isildur1 facing Isaac Haxton screen name philIvey2694. The two players played 2,500 hands at $50-$100 NL Hold’em and played four-handed.

Isildur1 took the lead and held the lead through about half of the match. He tried using a combination of small ball and trapping to try and keep Haxton reeling, but as the match drug on, it was Haxton that was taking down the majority of the large pots. In fact, Haxton took 9 out of 13 pots $10,000 and over.

Haxton ran insanely well in the big hands against Isildur1. In the following 26k pot, Haxton flopped both a straight and flush draw. Isildur1 flopped top pair and the a lower straight draw. Unfortunately for Isildur1, the river brought him his straight at the same time that Haxton caught his flush. Haxton shoved and Isildur1 made the call to give the sizable pot to Haxton.

Isildur1 did take a pair of 20k pots, but unfortunately, they were after the point where it appeared that Haxton had the match locked up. The first 20k pot came in a pot that saw Haxton shove while dominated. On a king-high flop, Haxton moved all-in with K-7 of hearts and ran into the K-9 of clubs from Isildur1. The board failed to produce a seven and Isildur1’s nine played to give him a 20k pot.

The other sizable pot for Isildur1 came in another hand where Haxton was dominated. On a flop of Kd-5d-2c, Haxton check called a $600 bet from Isildur1. On the turn 8d, Haxton again check-called a $1,800 bet. When the river fell the As, Haxton checked to Isildur1, and he moved all-in for $7,916. Haxton made the call and showed Ks-Js for a pair of kings. Isildur1 showed Ah-Kc for top two and took a pot worth $21,232.

The largest pot of the evening saw Haxton min-raise to $200 and Isildur1 re-raise to $1,000 pre-flop. Haxton called and the flop fell 5h-9d-3d. Isildur1 bet out $1,500 and was called. The turn fell the 2c and Isildur1 bet out $3,800. Haxton made the call and the river fell the 2h. Isildur1 moved all-in for $15,932 and Haxton made the call. Isildur1 showed Jh-9h for top nines-up and Haxton showed Kh-9h for the same two pair, but with a better kicker.

For the session, Haxton took $41,701 off of Isildur1 over 2,500 hands. Had Haxton not went on somewhat of a heater, this match would have turned out differently. Of course, Haxton will not be the first to try their hand at Isildur1, so he will have plenty of chances to rebound.