In a display of complete domination and run good, Swedish poker pro Isildur1 crushed Rui Cao in SuperStar Showdown 10, winning $150,000 over 2,257 hands. After two months without a PokerStars SuperStar Showdown 10 was certainly one to remember. In the biggest pot of the night, Blom four bet preflop to $2,700 with Kc Jh [...]

SuperStar Showdown 10, Isildur1 versus Rui Cao, will take place June 19th, at 1200 EDT (1900 GMT) at PokerStars. Rui Cao plays on PokerStars as PepperoniF, and under his real name, Rui Cao on Full Tilt Poker. The challenge will consist of 2500 hands, with two tables of $50/$100 No-Limit Hold’em and two tables of [...]

Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom and Scott “UrNotInDangr” Palmer faced off again after their Round 1 battle last week. Palmer won round 1 by $5,425, which he carried into round 2. That proved not to be enough, though, as Blom pounded Palmer, ending with $61,182 profit after all 5,000 No Limit Hold’em hands were complete. The two [...]

Viktor Blom, better known to the online poker world as Isildur1, clashed with online qualifier DodgyFish72 in the fifth PokerStars SuperStar Showdown. In the closest Showdown to date, Isildur1 won by just $10 after 2500 hands of $5/$10 NL Hold’em! DodgyFish72, who’s actual name is Atilla Gulcsik, was the big winner, despite losing the actual [...]

The SuperStar Showdown has been successful for drawing attention to PokerStars and for giving poker spectators a chance to see high stakes poker heads up matches between the biggest names on a regular basis. This latest challenge last night saw Viktor Blom, better known as Isildur1 play against Scott Palmer who plays online as, UrNotInDanger. [...]

Continuing his early rebound, Phil Ivey posted a profit of $476,000 this past weekend against some of the top talent in the online world.

Months after the epic drama surrounding Isildur1, a similar storm is now gathering on the horizon.

After losing his first SuperStar Showdown match versus Ike Haxton, Isildur1 is on a three fight winning streak with wins over Tony G, Daniel Cates, and now the latest challenger Eugence Katchalov. Isildur1 wins with a profit of $111,750 over 2500 hands of $50/$100. SuperStar Showdown match IV started out looking rather slow. At hand [...]

Daniel Negreanu has recently been working on his heads up game over at PokerStars, taking on some top players at $5/$10 NL. One of PokerStars’ biggest promotions running at the moment, The SuperStar Showdown, is a heads up challenge where new players take on Viktor ‘Isildur1′ Blom, in a 2500 hand, $50/$100 Heads Up No-Limit [...]

At 3 PM EST on February 13th, Eugene Katchalov will face off against Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom in the PokerStars Superstar Challenge. Eugene Katchalov is riding a wave of momentum into this showdown. The Ukrainian poker star recently took down the $100,000 Super High Roller event at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure less than one month ago for a [...]