PokerStars announced the other day that its very popular SuperStar Showdown is about to return! The SuperStar Showdown, incase you never heard of it before, is a heads-up challenge where anyone with enough money can challenge Team PokerStars Pro Viktor "Isildur1" Blom to play an heads-up match for 2,500 hands (or until someone is broke) on 4 tables with the minimum stakes of $50/$100.
The next match is set for Sunday, March 11 at 12:00 ET and Isildur1 will face Isaac "Philivey2694" Haxton. According to PokerStars, the stakes will be higher than ever before, and Haxton and Blom will sit down with $300,000 each on four $100/$200 No Limit Hold'em tables.
Last time they faced each other in the SuperStar Showdown Haxton won $41,701 from Isildur and became the second player ever to win a SuperStar Showdown against the young Swede. Yes, that's right! Blom has played 11 heads-up matches so far and only lost two of them. Below you can see all previous matches:
vs. Isaac Haxton ($50/$100 NLHE) -$41,701 over 2,500 hands
vs. Tony G ($50/$100 NLHE & PLO) +$44,280 over 2,500 hands
vs. Daniel Cates ($50/$100 NLHE) +$51,196 over 2,500 hands
vs. Eugene Katchalov ($50/$100 NLHE) + $111,750 over 2,500 hands
vs. Attila Gulcsik ($5/$10 NLHE) +$5 over 2,500 hands
vs. Daniel Negreanu ($50/$100 NLHE) +$150,000 over 1,439 hands
vs. Daniel Negreanu ($50/$100 NLHE) -$26,500 over 2,500 hands
vs. Scott Palmer ($50/$100 NLHE) +$61,362 over 5,000 hands
vs. Mastermixus ($5/$10 NLHE) +$1,279 over 2,500 hands
vs. Rui Cao ($50/$100 NLHE & PLO) +$150,000 over 2,257 hands
vs. Terje "Terken89" Augdal ($50/$100 NLHE & PLO) +$150,000 over 1,566 hands
source: highstakesdb.com
