Isaac Haxton

(Pokerstars pro)

(twitter: @ikepoker)

27, has an undergraduate degree in philosophy

Plays husngs, cash and mtts

Learned play chess in 4 years old

Questions

1) Why poker?

I've always liked games. I don't particularly like having a boss or having to show up to a job every day.

2) When did you start playing and when became pro?

I started playing my senior year of high school (2003) and was playing mid stakes lhe online pretty seriously by the end of 2004.

3) What is your other activities besides poker?

I like to travel and I'm very into food. I play other games, in particular Magic.

4)  Tell me more about Magic?

Magic is a strategy game played with cards that combines a lot of the best elements of both poker and chess. It was created in the early 90s and has been growing pretty steadily ever since. There's a pretty large international competitive scene that supports 100 or so professional players. The company that makes the game releases new sets of cards several times a year so the game is constantly evolving.

A lot of poker players actually got started in Magic. Some of the better known ones include fellow Stars pros David Williams, Dario Minieri, and Jose Barbero, Justin Bonomo, Brock Parker, Eric Froehlich.

5) So you are playing it for cash? :-)

The world championship tournament has a prizepool of like a quarter million dollars, first is like 50k or so, and there are a few other comparably big tournaments a year and a bunch of smaller ones. No one is getting rich playing Magic, maybe 100 people support themselves at it, including by making money, writing articles and creating strategy videos and stuff.

When I was 15 I won a couple junior tournaments that paid $1000 in college scholarship money to the winner, that's my biggest accomplishment as a magic player.

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2 HANDS against Dan Colman

(Isaac Haxton said: "two big hands from the very end of my session against mrgr33n the other day. I went 6-0 in our first 6 games for only 5k, then we added 5k sidebets and played another 12 - and it went 6-6.")

No Limit Holdem Tournament • 2 Players • PokerStars

$4937+$63

Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter

Effective Stacks: 29bb

Blinds 25/50

Pre-Flop (75, 2 players)

Hero is SB

Hero raises to 100, mrGR33N13 raises to 250, Hero calls 150

Flop (500, 2 players)

mrGR33N13 checks, Hero checks

Turn (500, 2 players)

mrGR33N13 bets 275, Hero calls 275

River (1050, 2 players)

mrGR33N13 checks, Hero goes all-in 1013, mrGR33N13 goes all-in 937

Final Pot: 2924

Hero shows high card Queen

mrGR33N13 shows a pair of Nines

mrGR33N13 wins 2924 ( won +1462 )

Hero lost -1462

No Limit Holdem Tournament • 2 Players • PokerStars

$4937+$63

Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter

Effective Stacks: 41bb

Blinds 15/30

Pre-Flop (45, 2 players)

Hero is BB

mrGR33N13 raises to 60, Hero raises to 165, mrGR33N13 calls 105

Flop (330, 2 players)

Hero checks, mrGR33N13 checks

Turn (330, 2 players)

Hero bets 280, mrGR33N13 calls 280

River (890, 2 players)

Hero goes all-in 1331, mrGR33N13 goes all-in 779

Final Pot: 2448

mrGR33N13 shows a pair of Eights

Hero shows two pair, Eights and Deuces

Hero wins 3000 ( won +1224 )

mrGR33N13 lost -1224