Player Spotight: Isaac Haxton
Prior to winning the $300,000 buy-in Super High Roller V in December 2018, Isaac Haxton had $20 million in tournament cashes. But it wasn’t until that fateful day until he finally won a major poker tournament.
“This is my biggest score ever and easily the best accomplishment. This is the highlight of my tournament career,” Ike told Poker Central upon winning $3,672,000.
It was almost hard to believe a player as accomplished as Haxton had never shipped a major trophy. After all the blood, sweat, and tears he’s put into this game, he was as deserving as anyone to win that title.
Now that he got the monkey off his back, he doesn’t have much left to prove as a poker player. Maybe a World Series of Poker bracelet or a World Poker Tour championship. But that’s about it.
He now has $23 million in career cashes, good for 13th all-time and third in his home state of New York behind Bryn Kenney ($26.6 million) and Erik Seidel ($34.8 million).
Haxton formerly represented the world’s largest online poker site as a PokerStars Team Pro member before resigning in 2016. He then moved on to sporting the partypoker patch.
“Hollywood” has also been successful as an online poker player. He turned more than a $700,000 profit under the moniker “philivey2694” on PokerStars since 2011.
Haxton appeared on the popular Joe Rogan Experience podcast in 2014. He shared insight into the life and mind of a high-stakes poker player.
