Sep 1 2011

Ike Haxton will be joining Justin Bonomo in Malta

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It appears that online superstar Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo will have some company at his new digs in Malta –the locale he decided to move to in order to continue his lucrative online poker career—as he will be joined by good friends and fellow online poker pros Steve O’Dwyer and Isaac Haxton. The revelation was made by Bonomo in a recent interview with the poker media outlet PokerNews.com.

Apparently Bonomo is simply not cut out for live play, telling PokerNews.com, “Happiness matters more than anything when making a decision like this, and frankly, I’m miserable when I play live poker… It’s incredibly slow, and I’m often surrounded by people I don’t want to be around. Live poker is not meant for a cynical person like myself. Much less important than that is the fact that I expect to make a lot more money playing online. I can get in hundreds of thousands of hands at high stakes, which I could never replicate live,”

Haxton is considered one of the top heads-up No Limit Holdem players on the Internet –he’s the only man to defeat Viktor “Isildur1” Blom in the Superstar Showdown Challenge matches on PokerStars—so it was only a matter of time before the phenom made his way overseas.

O’Dwyer is another top online poker player, although he doesn’t have the name recognition of Haxton or Bonomo –both of whom have appeared on televised poker shows in the past—he is a well respected high-stakes poker pro who plays under the screen-name “MrTimCaum”.

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