Haxton Has a Plan

For two days now, we've been keeping an eye on the play between Isaac Haxton and Viktor "Isildur1" Blom, two of the long-standing big stacks in our field. Haxton, as you would likely guess by looking at him, has one of the more calculating and intelligent minds in the game, and it appears he came prepared for battle with the dangerous Blom this week.

Maybe a half-dozen times or so, we've seen Haxton throw out oversized bets and raises against Isildur. Some of his early three-bets were enormous on Day 1, and we just saw another oversized pot developing between the two men here on Day 2.

It began with Blom opening to 22,000, and this time Haxton elected to flat-call from the small blind. They both checked through the {6-Diamonds} {Q-Spades} {5-Hearts} flop, and the {9-Hearts} turn drew a leading bet from Haxton. It was a pot-sized 60,000, and Blom came right along with a call to see the river.