Over the course of Isildur1’s SuperStar Showdown, Isaac Haxton has been the one chink in Viktor Blom’s armor. While all other challengers have remained in the red, Haxton has managed a 2-0 record against the famed Swede, giving him $46k in profits.
But a million dollar, winner-takes-all showdown is guaranteed to make that figure insignificant, regardless of the outcome. So when Haxton and Blom agreed to play 4-hour sessions every night at 4 times the normal stakes for the SuperStar Showdown until someone held $1M chips in their stack, all of that history merely seemed like a preface to this massive event.
And now it seems as though Blom is well on his way to having the last laugh. After 2 days, 8 hours and over 3,500 hands, Viktor “Isildur1” Blom has taken more than half of Haxton’s roll for this showdown and holds a dominating 3.5:1 stack lead.
It was actually Haxton (under the name philivey2694) who got off to an early lead on Day 1 with $44k+ advantage. Hour 2 of Day 1 was perhaps the crucial turning point of the entire match, though. The first 15 minutes of that hour saw Isildur1 double his losses, only to make them all back on three big hands that he won without showdown (including a hand where he passed on a continuation bet only to 4-bet the turn)! The next 45 minutes were no less eventful, including a Cowboys vs. Big Slick all-in preflop matchup and a 6-figure pot that was won by a pair of 5s.
That hour ended with the two players in a virtual tie, but the momentum (especially in pots won without a showdown) had swiftly swung into Blom’s direction. Over the next hour (Hour 3 of Day 1) Blom built up a 6-figure lead that has been slowly-but-surely growing ever since.
But don’t count Haxton out just yet. These two have been involved in showdowns with massive swings before, and no one knows better than Blom how quickly luck can turn around at the nosebleeds. Haxton has even fought hard to maintain a comeback chance, fighting off an 8:1 disadvantage early in Day 2.
Haxton and Blom will go back at it 1PM ET on Tuesday for another 4-hour session—that is, of course, unless the final blows are dealt before then.