Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 03, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

In less than 12 hours Viktor “Isildur1” Blom was able to best Isaac Haxton in the duo’s $1,000,000 Heads-Up No Limit Holdem Freezeout match at PokerStars. The two have been embroiled in the heads-up contest since Saturday, playing for four hours each day and not stopping until oneRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 01, 2012 Posted in Poker News | 1 Comment »

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

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 30, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

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

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 20, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

After blowing a near $100,000 lead over Isaac Haxton in last week’s Superstar Showdown on PokerStars –the first Superstar Showdown match the site has hosted since last June—Team PokerStars Pro Viktor “Isildur1” Blom came back with an impressive victory of UK high-stakes pro Andrew “Kanu7” Millar. The twoRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 11, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

While the 2011 World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Five Diamond Poker Classic was playing down to the final table (and what a final table it will be) another tournament with a massive prize-pool was taking place, but unlike the WPT Championship which drew 411 players this tournament wasRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 13, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

UK poker pro Jake Cody can now add another title to his growing resume which already included a WPT title and an EPT title, as the young superstar captured his first major online title yesterday by winning the $2,100 No Limit Holdem SCOOP tournament at PokerStars. Cody startedRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 08, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Entering the final table of the €25,000 buy-in PokerStars EPT Madrid High-Roller tournament, Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand “ElkY” Grosspellier was way behind the chip-leaders, and somehow managed to hang around until three-handed play began –despite not being involved in any major confrontations—which is when ElkY finally woke-up andRead Full Article