Ike Haxton
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| Isaac Haxton | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 21, 1985 (age 35) |
| World Series of Poker | |
| Bracelet(s) | None |
| Final table(s) | 5 |
| Money finish(es) | 24 |
| Highest ITM Main Event finish | 94th, 2007 |
| World Poker Tour | |
| Title(s) | None |
| Final table(s) | 1 |
| Money finish(es) | 4 |
| European Poker Tour | |
| Title(s) | None |
| Final table(s) | 1 |
| Money finish(es) | 3 |
| Information accurate as of 3 December 2014. | |
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Isaac Haxton (born September 21, 1985) is an American professional poker player known for his accomplishments in high-roller poker tournaments and high-stakes online cash games.[1][2]
Early life[edit]
Haxton was born in suburban New York City and raised in Westchester. His mother is a psychiatrist and his father is an English professor who introduced Isaac to games of skill at an early age. He played chess at the age of four and Magic: The Gathering by the age of ten.[3]
After high school Haxton attended Brown University as a computer science major, but later spent more time playing poker than studying.[4]
Poker career[edit]
After turning 18, Haxton transitioned from competitive Magic: The Gathering to playing poker at the Turning Stone Casino in Verona, New York starting at $3/$6 limit before slowly moving up in stakes. He transitioned to online poker with a $50 deposit on Ultimate Bet.[3]
In 2007, he cashed in his first tournament at the WPT Championship Event finishing runner-up to Ryan Daut for $861,789.As of May 2019, his total live tournament winnings exceed $25,900,000 of which $2,932,251 have come from cashes at the World Series of Poker Circuit.
Online poker[edit]
Haxton is considered one of the top online cash game specialists and plays under the aliases, Ike Haxton, luvtheWNBA, and philivey2694 where he has earned over $2,000,000.[5] Although successful in tournament play, he prefers online cash games and considers them to be his specialty.
Personal life[edit]
Haxton is married to his wife Zoe. He has a book written by his father based on his life called, Fading Hearts on the River: My Son’s Life in Poker.[6]
References[edit]
- ^'Isaac Haxton'. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
- ^'Isaac Haxton Bio'. Card Player. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
- ^ abNicole Gordon (June 26, 2009). 'The PokerNews Profile: Isaac Haxton'. PokerNews.
- ^'Isaac Haxton'. PokerNews. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
- ^'Isaac Haxton player profile'. HighStakesDB. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
- ^Chad Holloway (October 23, 2014). 'PokerNews Book Review: Fading Hearts on the River by Brooks Haxton'. PokerNews.
External links[edit]
High stakes pro urges players to stop playing live amid surging COVID-19 numbers in Las Vegas
Live poker in Las Vegas keeps rolling on during the COVID-19 pandemic. The complications of the pandemic haven’t stopped Las Vegas poker rooms from offering large field tournaments in the latter half of 2020.
High stakes fixture Isaac Haxton called for players to stop traveling for poker, and to halt playing the game live altogether.
Haxton’s plea to the poker community began with a series of tweets on Dec. 9:
“Poker is ramping up in Vegas, with upcoming WSOP and Wynn 10ks. Meanwhile, despite limited testing, 1% of Nevada residents have tested positive for COVID just in the last 2 weeks. Please stop playing live poker. Please, please don’t travel for poker,” Haxton tweeted.
That tweet comes in a month of multiple live series running in Las Vegas. The Bally’s Main Event Mania series runs Dec. 10 through Jan. 13 and kicked off with multiple satellite tournaments offering entry into the 2020 World Series of Poker Main Event on WSOP.com.
The Wynn High Rollers series and the MSPT Venetian DeepStack Extravaganza also run throughout December.
While Las Vegas takes its usual place as the main hub for live poker in the western U.S., COVID-19 cases in Nevada are at an all-time high.
Haxton’s post links to an interactive map provided by COVID Act Now, showing Nevada at the “Severe Outbreak” level. That COVID-19 risk level represents the highest of a five-tier system of risk assessment used by the website.
As of Dec. 16, COVID Act Now cites a 20.9% positive test rate and 83.8 new daily cases per 100,000 ratio.
Haxton puts the impetus on players to shut down the live poker scene
Haxton continued that live poker rooms can’t realistically be expected to shut down operations:
“I’d plead with operators not to run these irresponsible events, but we’re well past the point of imagining they might care,” Haxton wrote.
Haxton went on to contend that the nature of live poker makes it impossible to stop the spread of COVID-19 in a poker room:
“1% have tested pos but with a >20% pos rate per test, it’s clear most cases are going undetected. More like 3-5% had it in last 2 weeks. In a poker room with 100 people, it’s virtually a lock that a few are contagious. No amount of masks and plexiglass makes that appealing,” Haxton tweeted.
The responses to the series of tweets mostly favored Haxton’s view that live poker needs to go on hold for the foreseeable future.
Some did not, however, including Twitter user “Art of the Deal.”
“Easy to say for someone who likely has a bankroll of hundreds of thousands (if not millions) that you can easily live off of for years,” read the response from “Art of the Deal.”
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“No one is forcing you or anyone else to go to the casino. Remember the word “freedom”? Or are we too far gone?”
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