In a scene reminiscent of the final showdown in the movie Rounders (you know the one where Mike McDermott and Teddy KGB square-off in a winner-take-all match) yesterday at PokerStars Viktor “Isildur1” Blom and Isaac Haxton began their own winner-take-all heads-up No Limit Holdem match, but unlike theRead Full Article

Two of the top heads-up No Limit Holdem in online poker will be battling this weekend in a $1 million freezeout match. Yesterday PokerStars announced that Isaac Haxton and Viktor “Isildur1” Blom have agreed to square-off in a winner-take-all Heads-Up Match with each player putting up $500,000! TheRead Full Article

This past Sunday Isaac Haxton and Viktor “Isildur1” Blom took part in the first Superstar Showdown match on PokerStars since last June. Unfortunately the match, scheduled for 2,500 hands, was halted just 692 hands in when Haxton’s Internet connection went “1993” on him and caused him to continuouslyRead Full Article

An online duel between two of the best heads-up poker players in the world, Isaac Haxton and Viktor “Isildur1” Blom, was abruptly called short yesterday when Isaac Haxton started experiencing Internet problems due to bad weather! The two had played roughly 1,000 hands of their scheduled 5,000 handRead Full Article

After a very long hiatus (the last Superstar Showdown took place in June 2011) the Superstar Showdown is coming back to PokerStars, and it will be a rematch of the very first Superstar Showdown that saw Isaac Haxton defeat Viktor “Isildur1” Blom in the 2,500 hand heads-up battle.Read Full Article

While few people have shown any interest in accepting the heads-up No Limit Holdem Challenge issued by Daniel “jungleman12” Cates, one player who has never shied away from any type of challenge, Tony G, had this to say when a PokerNews mic was thrust in his face: “Jungle,Read Full Article

It’s a big weekend for poker advocates around the world as the International Poker Federation (IFP) wrapped up its groundbreaking Nations Cup Poker Tournament on Friday and gets set to host a $500k freeroll tournament known as “The Table” this weekend. The Nations Cup was a unique event whereRead Full Article

It didn’t take long for the three remaining players in the World Series of Poker Main Event to tangle in a big pot, as no sooner had the players been introduced than Martin Staszko and Ben Lamb found themselves all-in pre-flop with Staszko holding pocket 7’s and LambRead Full Article

With a star-studded field, and a final table that included some serious heavies in the poker world including former EPT winner Kevin MacPhee, Jan Bendik, Barny Boatman and the chip-leader heading into the final table Daniel Neilson, it was a virtual unknown that would take down the 2011Read Full Article

It’s been a while since the poker world caught wind of a high-stakes challenge match, but that changed on Thursday when Daniel “Jungleman12” Cates decided to throw out an open challenge to any player ready to take him on in a live, heads-up, match at the Prague PokerRead Full Article