Stars has done a great job marketing the SuperStar Showdown challenges. For the first time we have online heads up matches where they play at a set time, so that everyone can tune in and watch. The SuperStar Showdown is a great spectator event for poker, and a huge win for PokerStars. This is the [...]

The rules going in were simple. 2500 hands of NLHE Heads Up, $50-$100 blinds, with a $150,000 bankroll brought to the match. Whoever was up at the end of the 2500 hand would be deemed the winner. The match was close, as usual for these heads up challenges. A lot of big hands were played, [...]

Viktor ‘Isildur1′ Blom and Daniel ‘W00kiez’ Cates, also known as Jungleman, will face each other this Sunday in round three of the PokerStars SuperStar Showdown 2500 hands heads up match. The match begins Sunday at 5:30PM ET. This will be the third iteration of the SuperStar Showdown. Round 1 saw Isildur lose vs Ike Haxton [...]

The second Superstar Showdown on PokerStars saw Isildur1 defeat poker pro Tony G in a battle of poker supremacy. These two are no strangers to each other. After Isildur1′s infamous rise and subsequent fall at the hands of Brian Hastings on Full Tilt Poker, Tony G offered to stake Isildur1 for the Party Poker Big [...]

Tony G has stepped up to the plate and challenged the player known simply as Isildur1 to a high stakes heads-up match. The heads-up match will be 2500 hands of $50/$100, with half of the hands being Pot-Limit Omaha and the other half being No-Limit Holdem. The match starts January 2nd at 16:00 ET and [...]

As we reported a few days ago, Issac Haxton, who plays on PokerStars as PhilIvey2694, defeated Isildur1 in the first Superstar Showdown. They recently discussed their heads-up battle with PokerStars reporters and the two had very different opinions about each other and the match itself. In an interview conducted with a PokerStars reporter, Isildur1 did [...]

PokerStars newest Team Pro, Isildur1, whose real life identity remains unknown, just completed his first Superstar Showdown Heads Up Challenge, versus Isaac PhilIvey2694 Haxton. Haxton came out on top, winning $41,700 over their 2500 hand encounter. The rules going in were simple, two men, 2500 hands at $50/$100 NLHE, with each player bringing a $150,000 [...]

Soon after PokerStars reported the addition of Isildur1 to PokerStars Team Pro, Isildur1 fans anxiously waited for the mysterious high stakes player to finally return to action. The rail was not disappointed as Isildur1 hit the tables last night in a big way. The newly appointed Team Pro’s big return came in the for of [...]

A little over six weeks ago, we reported that we had heard rumors from a Swedish poker player’s blog that “a famous Swedish High Stakes player” had signed a sponsorship deal with “a well known poker site.” Isildur1 was of course the first name that sprung to everyone’s mind, and speculation ran wild about whether [...]

It’s possible we will be seeing Isildur1′s name in red, soon. Swedish high-stakes blogger Sohello “BankTheMan” Shah has reported that “a famous Swedish high stakes player” got sponsorship from a well known poker site. While the article does not mention Isildur or Viktor Blom by name (if, in fact, Isildur is Viktor Blom), the article [...]