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Picking up the Tuesday action with Blom ahead 100,000, things didn’t look good for Haxton, as Blom stretched his lead to 130,000 by the 1,000-hand mark. But then everything turned upside down. During a few hundred hands Isaac began picking large bluffs of the Swede and significantly reducing his backlog. We will bring you one illustrative hand:

Blom called Isaac’s preflop min-raise and then raised Haxton’s continuation bet of $ 400 up to $ 1,600 on the Qs-8d-Ah flop. Isaac just called. At the harmless turn with 3c Blom added $3,250 to the pot, and Haxton called one more time. The river was another blank - 6s and the Swede made one of his trademark moves - a huge overbet – adding $ 27.550 to the $ 10,500 pot. Without thinking long, Isaac called, showing a set of eights. That was more than enough to beat Blom’s J-10 offsuit. After this hand the Swede was still ahead, but only $ 8,000. And already at the mark of 1,800 hands Haxton took the lead at $ 40,000.




We cannot predict the final outcome, if not a cooler for Haxton that give Isildur a 40,000 pot and a slim lead back. On the third table however, Isildur dumped about $8,500 back to Haxton when he folded to a flop bet and that gave him the final edge of $5,093. The loss is only Isildur's second overall in the SuperStar Showdown series, both coming to Haxton. Let's wait how things end up for his next opponent - Alex "Kanu7" Millar.