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A PokerStars SuperStar Showdown date between Viktor “Isildur1” Blom and Daniel Negreanu has been rumored for quite some time. Blom, who is 4-1 in SuperStar Showdowns and riding a four-match win streak, now gets a date with the PokerStars front man. In fact, their match will stretch for two weeks.

On March 20th and 27th, Negreanu and Blom will battle in the first ever two-day PokerStars SuperStar Showdown. Four $50/$100 No Limit Hold’em tables on PokerStars will host the action. Both players will buy in for $150,000 and play 2,500 hands on March 20th. Once 2,500 hands have been logged, they’ll take a one-week hiatus and reconvene on March 27th for another 2,500.

Both sessions will begin at 15:00 ET and we’d expect the poker community to rail the action in earnest. Posters on TwoPlusTwo seem to be firmly behind Blom, with one member of the poker community contending, “Hopefully Daniel Negreanu gets crushed hard.” Another poster agreed, saying, “4 tables of NLHE? Daniel is drawing dead imo.”

Other posters on TwoPlusTwo were showing Negreanu some love for agreeing to take on Blom. One player wrote, “I am certainly going to be watching at least a part of this and respect Daniel for getting involved in this. He doesn’t have to do this as a famous player; he shows he’s a true poker player who is willing to take on anyone.”

According to text found on the PokerStars Blog, Negreanu has been ramping up his game for a date with “Isildur1,” who joined the PokerStars team in December: “This two-part Ali-Frazier battle has been in the offing for some time. Negreanu has been writing about it on his blog off and on and making no secret of the facts that he both admires Blom and wants to face him in a four-table match.”

Negreanu has been tuning up for his run-in with Blom by four-tabling $5/$10 against what the PokerStars Blog calls “a variety of good players.” Just before the sixth SuperStar Showdown match was announced, Negreanu was busy playing “Sauce123” heads-up on PokerStars at stakes of $50/$100. He dropped $100,000 during the session, but was far from deterred on Twitter, where he posted, “Sauce123 played great and ran hot. Tough combo. Can’t win em all! Losses build character.”

Saying that Negreanu is a “famous player” is probably an understatement. He’s #2 on the all-time money list for the World Poker Tour (WPT) at $5.6 million, trailing only Carlos Mortensen, who has $6.4 million. Negreanu has six WPT final tables and two titles, although he hasn’t final tabled an event in four years.

Negreanu has $4.3 million in career World Series of Poker (WSOP) earnings and four bracelets. He was the 2004 WSOP Player of the Year and won the 1999 United States Poker Championship for $210,000.

Blom revolutionized the high-stakes cash game scene on Full Tilt Poker before moving over to PokerStars. He’s 4-1 in SuperStar Showdown matches after recording wins over Dan “jungleman12” Cates, PartyPoker pro Tony G, Eugene Katchalov, and an online qualifier. His only loss came in his very first SuperStar Showdown match against Isaac Haxton. The winner of the Showdown is the person who comes away with the most profit.

Blom’s last SuperStar Showdown match was against online qualifier Attila “DodgyFish72” Gulcsik, whom he bested by just one big blind, or $10, two weeks ago.

Visit PokerStars for more details on the SuperStar Showdown.

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