Blom vs. Haxton in $1 million challenge match at PokerStars

If you haven’t heard, Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom and Isaac Haxton (two of the top heads-up No Limit Holdem players on the Internet) began a $1,000,000 freezeout challenge match this weekend. Beginning on Saturday, the two will be playing $200/$400 NLHE for four hours each day until one of the Team PokerStars players has felted the other!

Day 1 of the match saw Haxton jump out to an early lead, and control the match for two hours before Blom roared back over the final two hours to end the day with a $198,000 profit at the expense of Haxton.

After a torrid comeback by Isaac Haxton in the second session of their $1,000,000 freezeout heads-up No Limit Holdem match, Viktor Blom managed to once again turn the tables and end the day with a considerable lead. However, considering the wild swings we have seen thus far it’s safe to say that with nearly half of his starting stack still in play; Haxton is still very much alive in the match.

After ending their first session with nearly $200,000 of Haxton’s starting stack of $500,000, Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom shot out to an even bigger lead early on in the second session on Sunday. But then Haxton came back… All the way back! Erasing the entire $320k deficit he faced, Haxton managed to square the match before Blom went on a heater of his own. By the end of the four-hour session, Blom had extended his lead from the previous day to $281,365.

At one point Blom had all but $118,000 of Haxton’s stack, before Haxton came roaring back once again, picking up about $100,000 in the waning hands of Sunday’s session.

It’s safe to say that Viktor Blom and Isaac Haxton are fairly evenly matched when it comes to heads-up No Limit Holdem. While there has to be a winner and loser in these types of challenge matches, it’s safe to say that judging by their numerous meetings choosing a winner is basically a coin-flip.

Haxton won the duo’s first Superstar Showdown match back in December of 2010, pocketing $41,000 from the newly signed Team PokerStars Pro, and barely edge the young Swede to win in their rematch last month by a mere $5,000. Those two matches, and the way the two passed their chips back-and-forth, led to the current $1 million freezeout challenge match.

So the match will continue. Monday will see the two players sit down at four separate $200/$400 heads-up NLHE tables on PokerStars and play for four-hours, or until some is busto. Isildur1 will begin the day with a total combined stack of $781,365, while Haxton will have $218,635 in front of him.