As I’m sure most of you're aware of, there will be a challenge between the Full Tilt professionals and three out of PokerStars’ professionals in London this weekend, and I’ll be there, LIVE, to cover it.

One match will be played at a time, starting with the Swedish beast Viktor “Isildur1” Blom for the Full Tilt team and the tournament genius Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier for the PokerStars’ team. The match will start at Sunday, March 10th, 10:00 ET. Three hours later, the “feel based player” and hyper aggressive Tom “durrrr” Dwan will represent his Full Tilt in a face-off with the extremely talented and “math based player” Isaac “luvtheWNBA” Haxton, playing for PokerStars. And last but definitely not least, the two men that got this challenge to happen in the first place, Gus Hansen, representing team Full Tilt, and Daniel “KidPoker” Negreanu, representing team PokerStars, in a match, in turn, starting three hours later then the start of the previous one.

If you were unaware of the challenge or are uncertain of the rules or the format, please watch this video, where Daniel Negreanu himself explains most of it. What may also be interesting and isn’t included in the video is that the games will be played with 3,000 starting stacks and 15 minute blind levels.

I’ll cover the matches in this thread (i.e. providing you with big hands of the matches, match results as well as chat logs), but I’ll also be there live with some access to the players and therefore, I’d like to ask you guys what you’d like to know from the players? Do Viktor miss the Swedish meatballs, do Ike regret cutting of his longer, infamous hair and how many five year olds would Negreanu be able to take down before going down himself? Drop the questions in this thread and I’ll do my best to convey them to their target (I’m a 19 year old kid trying to make an impression; I’ll probably be down with asking some pretty absurd questions if that’s what you guys want.).

The matches will all be able to watch live in the Full Tilt client so tune in there or tune in here for live coverage of the games and the assessment of which site has the best professionals! The exact times of the matches is as follows:

1. Viktor "Isildur1" Blom vs Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Sunday, March 10th, 10:00 ET
2. Tom "durrrr" Dwan vs Isaac "luvtheWNBA" Haxton, Sunday, March 10th, 13:00 ET
3. Gus Hansen vs Daniel "KidPoker" Negreanu, Sunday, March 10th, 16:00 ET

The reason as to why I get this opportunity and what I’ll be doing in London in addition to covering this challenge will be posted on my personal blog, starting later tonight and then (at least the plan is) follow it up with regular updates throughout the entire trip. It’s actually usually in Swedish; however, I’m making an exception for the trip as I’m aiming and hoping for a bigger crowd (wow, did that sentence make me sound ******ed).

Ps. My first question in a possible interview with Dwan will be how many Rs there really is in his nickname and why it is so incredible hard to write it correctly.

Get durrrr to confirm how tall he is.

And if he correctly pays his taxes.

Awesome VT

Can't imagine the answer being awkward at all

Wow VT. Nice!

Whaaaa?

Subscribed.

Why isn't it Gus "The Great Dane" Hansen?

Thanks VT !! Coming through above expectations again !!

5 yr olds.. yeah.. weird.. but looks genuine..
DN must be happy at least someone got excited about this match...

Curious...

Vanilla Thunder, are you going to stream the whole thing from your webcam?

You have to do this.

1st page woho

Nice VT!

How many "Whaaaa??" 's can a thread survive...

Gay pix? Why the ****?

STFU. Who cares?

Congrats, VT. Looking forward to it.

Fyp.

+1 to durrrr confirming his height

You HAVE to try and get some info on macao games and/or OFC games out of them. Biggest stakes, Biggest Pots, longest sessions, etc...

I don't really know how this will go down but I'm quite certain that's not how it'll go down, unfortunately. I'll do pics and stuff though, stay tuned my man.

Publicity stunt for readers obv, haha. No but, in all seriousness; that's a joke. I've a girlfriend fs.

To durrr/Viktor - will they consider doing coaching videos? Even one-off videos etc.

I'm very interested in how much Isi, durrrr and Gus work on their games away from the tables (and how), but I seriously doubt you would get accurate answers to this

Looking forward to this, in4 FTP ownage

What do you mean "Who cares?"? Why would one not want to know how a picture likes that came about? If he's gay it's a really strange pic to publish. If he's straight it's a really strange pic to publish. **** off.

please explain what you meant by this:
"...and how many five year olds would Negreanu be able to take down before going down himself?"

Is someone getting his rocks off on a hacked account?

It's an online joke; google "how many five year olds".

I don't get it.

ask isildur to explain game theory strats