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Isildur1, the famous Swede lost his first SuperStar Showdown to Isaac 'philivey2694' Haxton, his first challenger. As I announced last time [3], as soon as PokerStars [4] signed Isildur1, they offered challengers the chance to take down the young Swedish player. The first showdown was played yesterday at the $50/$100 NLHE tables at PokerStars. The challenger came to be Isaac 'philivey 2694' Haxton, runner-up of the 2009 WSOP $40,000 NLHE event.
[5]After only 15 minutes, a big pot came around: Haxton min-raised from the dealer, Isildur1 called with 
K T , then on the A 
8 4 flop check-called Haxton's $200 cbet. With the J turn Isildur hit the nut flush and straight draw, and check-called again, Haxton bet $550 this time. The river was 6 , Isildur hit his flush. He checked again, and reraised Haxton's $1,666 bet to $7,850. Haxton called, and mucked the losing hand.
The next big pot went to Isildur, who flopped a set to his pocket 3s. Haxton paired up his ace, and continued to attack on all streets, going all-in on the river. Isildur won the $20,400 pot. After only 372 hands, he had already turned $11,650 profit.
Haxton managed to diminish his losses with a lucky hand: after serious betting, he was preflop all-in with 
Q J against Isildur's pocket queens, and luckily hit his straight on the river.
At halftime, Isildur had the lead again with $24,749 profit, after winning some big pots. In the second half, Haxton had better hands, while Isildur1, sitting on his profit, started to go on tilt, he spent the last 400 hands in "gambling mode". Trying 5x-ing and cbetting almost all the time he won many small pots, but the bigger ones went to the tight Haxton. He logged off after the 2,500 hands with a $41,701 profit, and as the first winner of the SuperStar Showdown, beating Isildur1. But I'm telling you, this is just the beginning...