View the profiles of people named Issac Haxton. Join Facebook to connect with Issac Haxton and others you may know. Facebook gives people the power to. Partypoker screen name: IkeHaxton From an early age, it was obvious that Isaac Haxton was no ordinary kid from New York. Adept at chess by the age of four, and a seasoned-gamer before his teens, Haxton displayed an early talent for any game that required deep thinking.
Born in New York City, Isaac Haxton was raised in Syracuse where his father was an English professor. From a very young age, it was obvious that Isaac was an extremely bright child. He was playing chess by age 4, and soon took up playing card game Magic: The Gathering. He was introduced to poker by his fellow magic players and, by the time he was 18, he was frequenting the $3/6 Limit Hold’em games at the Turning stone Casino.
Following his success in brick-and-mortar poker rooms, Haxton decided to enter the online world and was immediately hooked. After completing two years of his Computer Science major at Brown University – all the while playing 20-plus hours of poker per week – he decided to take a year off from school to give poker his full attention.
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Haxton’s decision paid off immediately as in early 2007 he took second place in the World Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, winning $861K. After the initial elation of receiving such a large sum of money, Isaac was shocked to discover that NETeller – the online bank that was holding his money – was being investigated and over $55 million of their funds had been seized. Essentially, he had $800K in virtual limbo with no way of knowing what was going to happen. During this bittersweet period of waiting, he became known as ‘the guy with $800K stuck in NETeller’.
Luckily for Haxton and the rest of the poker community, NETeller’s funds were eventually released and he received his money. At the 2007 World Series of Poker, he cashed in three events, and followed that up with five more in 2008. Two of the eight cashes were final tables, but he ended up finishing a disappointing seventh and ninth.
Isaac made his European Poker Tour debut in 2008, cashing sixth for $188K in the $20K European Poker Championship High Roller Event. In 2009, he had his best year to date, cashing in three WSOP events, including two final tables; second in the $40K No Limit Hold’em 40th Anniversary Event for $1.1 million and eighth in the $10K World Championship Pot Limit Hold’em for $82K.
Still in the early stages of his poker career, Isaac Haxton will be a force at the tables for years to come. An extremely feared tournament player, he still has the most success online, where he plays high-stakes cash games as ‘luvtheWNBA’.
For the second time in his career, Dan “Jungleman12” Cates has topped the online poker world in profits. According to HighStakesDB, Cates netted $3.43 million in 2014 through a combination of Full Tilt and PokerStars. This gave him a healthy lead over the next closest grinder, “punting-peddler,” a mysterious player from Macau who won $2,572,989 this past year. Here’s a look at the top 5 cash-game winners from 2014:
jungleman12 – $2,805,751
punting-peddler – $2,572,989
FinddaGrind – $1,683,538
Isaac “luvtheWNBA” Haxton – $1,541,060
Doug “WCGRider” Polk – $1,077,969
punting-peddler – $2,572,989
FinddaGrind – $1,683,538
Isaac “luvtheWNBA” Haxton – $1,541,060
Doug “WCGRider” Polk – $1,077,969
Going back to Cates, he played roughly 158,000 hands throughout the year and averaged a $21.70 profit on each hand. Assuming he averaged 150 hands an hour, that’s well over $3,000 an hour.
With his impressive year in 2014, Cates has now become one of the rare multi-year champions in online poker. He also led the iPoker world in 2010, when he burst on to the high stakes scene with $5 million in profits. And in an era where most of the pre-Black Friday poker studs have faded, Jungleman hasn’t missed a beat while earning $3.43 million in poker’s toughest era.
Free blazing 7 slot machine games online. This brings Cates’ lifetime winnings up to $11.43 million, making him the third biggest winner ever behind Phil “Polarizing” Ivey and Patrik “FinddaGrind” Antonius. The latter also had a great year in 2014, netting over $1.68 million.
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One poker legend who didn’t fare too good in 2014 is Gus Hansen. The “Great Dane” lost $5.8 million over 200,000 hands, plummeting his career Full Tilt losses to $20.7 million. Hansen had further insult added when Full Tilt dropped him from their team of sponsored “Professionals.”
Also being dropped from the Professionals was Viktor “Isildur1” Blom, who lost $1.7 million over 320,000 hands. Blom doesn’t quite have the same deficit as Antonius, but he has lost $3.37 million during his career at Full Tilt, which was third worst among all players. Here’s a look at the bottom five from 2014:
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Gus Hansen – $5,864,263
Polarizing – $2,372,298
Isildur1 – $1,698,911
Crazy Elior – $1,222,910
OMGClayAiken – $1,092,098
Polarizing – $2,372,298
Isildur1 – $1,698,911
Crazy Elior – $1,222,910
OMGClayAiken – $1,092,098