Joined: Apr '11
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"For the fourth straight week, PokerStars' resident heads-up warrior Viktor "Isildur1" Blom was back in action for another SuperStar Showdown, this time to continue his two-round match with the formidable Scott "urnotindangr" Palmer. And after another efficient session lasting just over four-and-a-half hours, Viktor was the victor yet again, besting Palmer for $66,607 on Sunday for an overall profit of $61,182 over the 5,000 hands between the two.
After last week's 2,500-hand session, Palmer held a $5,425 advantage over Blom -- a small edge relatively speaking, given that each player had hefty $150,000 bankrolls with which to battle. Last Sunday Palmer jumped out to an early advantage, Blom fought back to retake the lead for much of the middle portion, then a late charge by Palmer gave him the lead just before the final bell rung.
All the All-Ins for Isildur1
However, the next hour saw Blom winning a succession of large pots, including the next three straight of $25,000 or more.
In the first both players made pairs on a T♠2♠7♥ flop, but the 2♣ turn gave Blom trip deuces with K♥2♥, which urnotindangr subsequently paid off with his A♠T♥ on the river (pot $27,000). Then came a preflop all-in with Palmer taking 9♥9♦ up against Blom's A♥K♥. A king flopped, Blom's hand held, and another large one ($28,100) went to the Swede.
Soon after that urnotindangr was all in again before the flop, this time with T♥T♦ against Blom's A♦9♠, but the board came 7♠2♦8♠6♦5♦, giving Isildur1 a straight and a $32,200 pot. After about an hour of play and 701 hands down, Isildur1 was up $44,950 on the day.
Palmer scraped back a few, taking a couple of medium-sized pots. But every time the all-ins occurred, Isildur1 seemed to be the one holding the bigger hand. For example, in a hand on Table 3 the pair exchanged several bets on the turn with the board showing 6♥J♥A♦Q♣, creating a pot of a little over $9,000. The river brought the 3♠ and an all-in shove from Isildur1 which Palmer called with the $9,100 he had left. Palmer had A♠Q♠ for top two, but Blom had K♣T♣ for the Broadway straight, the $27,300 pot swiftly sliding into Isildur1's stack.
The pair crossed the 1,000-hand mark, Blom's profit for the day having mushroomed to $68,800. Palmer won back one stack of high society on Table 3 when his pocket jacks outlasted Blom's A♣Q♥, but quickly gave it back on Table 1 when the two got it all in on the river with the board showing 9♦7♦T♦9♣3♥ with Palmer holding Q♦J♦ versus Blom's A♦2♦."
This is kinda how most people expected it I guess. I definitely thought that Isildur1 will definitely come out on top, but I have seen urnotindangr play some amazing poker recently and on top of that the cards seem to be going in his favor quite often. None-the-less it has been a very good match. I'm just looking forward to when Isildur will have another heated match with a top pro such as Daniel Negreanu again.
Joined: Feb '11
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Be nice to see someone from another site take him on. A Pro I mean. How about Helmuth or Tony G or someone on top of their game. Lets see just how good he really is. Better than me obviously, but like to see a top pro pound him at his own game....
Joined: Apr '11
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Isildur1 already played with Tony G on the first SuperStars Showdown. Isildur1 won the match. Phil Hellmuth is no longer a Ultimate Bet pro since he decided not to continue his contract with them. He was down to Pokerstars and Full Tilt Poker to choose from on being a pro but it's most likely to choose Full Tilt since all of his friends are there. As for a heads up against Isildur1, thats most unlikely sinece always Hellmuth said he is a tournament player. Personally i think i cool match, which is also possible would be Isildur1 vs Phil Galfond or MrSweet28 on Pokerstars.
Joined: Apr '11
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Isildur already played jungleman12 on pokerstars's superstars showdown. Here was the winner report: " The third Superstars Showdown just ended and Isildur1 managed to hit his second victory after a solid $51k profit against w00ki3z. (Daniel "Jungleman12" Cates). Isildur1 started out great and over the first 250 hands he was up about $30k but w00ki3z worked himself back pretty quick and was for the most part the leader in the match over the first 2000 hands. But, with less than 500 hands left Isildur1 started to hit a couple of big hands and then turned up the speed and made alot of nice moves."
