Seat 3: Isaac Haxton (USA) – 2,415,000
Isaac Haxton comes into Wednesday’s Super High Roller Bowl final table as the chip leader. He used a strong last level on Tuesday to move to the top of the counts and just barely edged out Chidwick for the chip lead. Haxton was one of the original beasts of online poker.
While studying at Brown University, the New Yorker spent more time studying poker than he did for his computer science degree. He eventually dropped out and focused solely on poker. He rapidly ascended the stakes online playing under the name ‘luvthewnba’ and burst onto the live scene when he was 21.
In a poker landscape where pros are becoming more and more specialized, Haxton still spends a ton of time playing both the highest stakes cash games and tournaments. He won the $10,000 short deck no-limit hold’em last September at the Poker Masters and coming into today, has already earned just shy of $20 million in his career playing live tournaments.