The matches will function just like the SuperStar Showdowns of old across four heads-up tables, but there will be no 2,500 limit this time. Now, the matches will continue until one of the most players goes broke. Each player starts their match with 1,000 big blinds. If the match isn't finished by the 3,000th hand, the blinds will double from $50-$100 to $100-$200. The primary match occurs tomorrow, 27 October. Follow the action at the high stakes cash game tables or click in the course of the All-Star Showdown banner within the PokerStars lobby.
Quarter-finals27 October: Tobias 'KTPOKP' Kuder vs Benjamin 'Sauce123' Sulsky28 October: Alex 'Kanu7' Millar vs Isaac 'IkeHaxton' Haxton 30 October: Alexander 'Sussie Smith' Roumeliotis vs Dan 'w00ki3z.' Cates31 October: Phil 'mrsweets28' Galfond vs Ben 'ben86' Tollerene
Semi-finals2 November: Semi-final 1 (Saturday v Sunday)3 November: Semi-final 2 (Tuesday v Wednesday)
Final4 November: The All Star Showdown final
All matches start at 18:00 CET.
SATURDAY, 27 OCTOBER
Tobias 'KTPOKP' Kuder AustriaSuperNova Tobias Kuder is among the least widely known players entering the All-Star Showdown. The Austrian's 'KTPOKP' screen name will definitely get some nods of popularity among online railbirds way to his high stakes clashes with the glitterati of the web poker community at PokerStars. Kuder is yet to notch up any live tournament results but isn't an alien to that world having played some events on the 2011 PCA, including the $25,000 High Roller which was won somewhat dramatically by Will Molson.
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Ben 'Sauce123' SulskyUSABen Sulsky is a web-based cash game player who's willing to combine it up playing Texas Hold 'em or Pot-Limit Omaha, either one of which he's six-figure green for on the high stakes tables on PokerStars. He also pocketed $258,300 this will winning SCOOP #37-H, a $21,000 heads-up tournament proving that he is going to be an actual contender within the All-Star Showdown. Sulsky has had big sessions against most of the most fearsome players sharking the nosebleed action, including Ilari 'Ilari FIN' Sahamies and Phil 'mrsweets28' Galfond. Sulsky's bankroll have been built up from a freeroll win!
SUNDAY, 28 OCTOBER
Isaac 'Ike Haxton' Haxton USAIsaac Haxton have been on the top of the sport for years and while he is also yet to win a title he has come close several times. Haxton came second within the 2007 PCA to Ryan Daut for $861,789 and scored another runner-up spot within the $40,000 40th Anniversary event on the WSOP for $1,168,565. These two results account for just two of his seven six-figure plus cashes in live events. Haxton was recently unveiled because the newest signing to Team PokerStars Online (he formerly played as 'philivey2694'), joining the likes of APPT Macau champ Randy 'nanonoko' Lew and EPT Copenhagen champion Mickey Petersen. Haxton is often willing to position his money where his mouth is and has played in high profile $1,000,000 winner-takes-all heads-up match against Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom.
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Alex 'Kanu7' MillarUnited KingdomHeads-up specialist Alex Millar is the high stakes slugger who stepped as much as Viktor 'Isuldur1' Blom throughout the Swede's SuperStar Showdown. Millar ended up within the red to the tune of $37,687, that is practically a attract that game and is a testament to Millar's heads-up talents. The young Brit has recorded around $2m in online cash winnings and although he's made the cash in a couple of big tournaments he's yet to make his mark at the live poker scene. Beating Haxton and getting into the semi-finals would cement Millar's reputation as one of the crucial world's best.
TUESDAY, 30 OCTOBER
Alexander 'Sussie Smith' RoumeliotisSwedenAlexander Roumeliotis is a player on form. He's been enjoying an upswing within the high stakes cash games online and almost made the headlines at EPT Sanremo where he finished runner-up to Marc-Andre Ladouceur for €83,200 (perhaps to freeroll into the All-Star Showdown?). Roumeliotis has $492,358 in live tournament cashes and noticeably has scored a primary and third in €3,000 and €5,000 heads-up tournaments.
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Dan 'w00ki3z.' CatesUSADan Cates is widely known on this planet of online poker for his expansive and aggressive brand of poker. It's one particularly well matched for heads-up play and has made for explosive viewing in his high stakes tangles on the No-Limit Hold 'em and Pot-Limit Omaha tables (including his Superstar Showdown with Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom). Cates is recognised as one of the vital biggest winners online and can be a difficult test for Roumeliotis.
WEDNESDAY, 31 OCTOBER
Phil 'mrsweets28' Galfond USAPhil Galfond is likely one of the most effective poker players on or off the felt. A VERY LONG TIME challenger on the highest stakes, Galfond has a play anyone, any time mentality which has seen him bank some $2.3m in cash games at PokerStars alone. Although he's primarily a cash game player, to the level that after he got three-handed with Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier and Julian Gardner in a SCOOP high event this year he had no idea where the deal button might be found, the yankee has won one World Series of Poker bracelet for $817,781.
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Ben 'ben86' Tollerene USABen 'ben86' Tollerene is another online whizz kid who has created an enormous bankroll playing online. Although the 25-year old has scored modest live tournament cashes of $308,332, it's online cash games where Tollerene has cleared up and is assumed to be up around $2,000,000 in high stakes cash games this year. Tollerene graduated from Texas Tech University with a finance degree and seems to have put a few of those skills to good use.
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Rick Dacey is a staff writer for the PokerStars Blog.
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