Isildur1 VS Negreanu

PokerStars is hosting another high stakes heads up match as part of their SuperStar Showdown series.

This time Isildur1 is taking on Daniel Negreanu and you can watch it live, on-line on March 20th and March 27th.  The matches start at 3:00 PM ET.

THE PLAYERS

Courtesy of Wikipedia...

Viktor Blom is a Swedish high stakes online poker player, best known as Isildur1. ^[1] His rise to fame drew considerable audience around thepoker world in late 2009,^[2][3][4] taking part in all ten of the largest pots in online poker history.^[5][6] In December 2010, it was announced that then-anonymous Isildur1 had joined Team PokerStars Pro. Blom's online identity was revealed by PokerStars on January 8, 2011 at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure.^[1]

^{Daniel Negreanu (pronounced /nɨˈɡrɑːnoʊ/; born July 26, 1974) is a Canadian professional pokerplayer of Romanian ancestry. He has won four World Series of Poker bracelets and two World Poker Tour Championship titles. He is now ranked first in the all-time career earnings list, surpassing Phil Ivey who held that mark [2] and is also currently the star of poker game show Million Dollar Challenge.}
(editor's note - Negreanu was just passed in lifetime tournament winnings by Erik Seidel)

THE BACKSTORY

Blom's rise and fall at the nosebleed stakes on fulltilt have received an incredible amount of attention for those that follow on-line poker.  The fact that until January of this year, his real identity was unknown only added to the mystery.  Negreanu on the other had is about as public a poker player you can find.  He is everywhere and is very open about the development of his poker game.  Isildur1 is an online specialist, Negreanu is a legend at live poker.  One is part of the new wave of young phenoms and the other is a proven old school player.  It will be a clash of styles, a clash of cash.

This is Isildur1's 6th match in the SuperStar Showdown matches at PokerStars.  He lost his first match to Isaac Haxton, but then went on a run of 4 wins by defeating Eugene Katchalov, Daniel Cates, Tony G and on-line qualifier Attila Gulcsik which he curiously won by a measly $10.

THE FORMAT

Courtesy of PokerStars...

A SuperStar Showdown is a high stakes, heads-up match consisting of a single session of 2,500 hands. The match is played across four tables of No Limit Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha, at stakes no lower than $50/$100. The winner is the player that shows either a profit after 2,500 hands, or wins all of their opponent’s match bankroll.

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