Isaac Haxton first started playing Magic: The Gathering, introduced to it by his father at the age of ten. At 18 years of age and while at Brown University, he moved to poker and then to online poker where cash games are his specialty. Haxton not only cashed in the first tournament he played but actually finished runner-up for nearly $900,000 at the PCA which at the time was an event on the World Poker Tour. He has since amassed nearly $10 million in live tournament winnings.
His father wrote a book about Ike Haxton called Fading Hearts on the River: My Son’s Life in Poker.
Ike is a Team Pokerstars Pro and plays under the screen name 'Ike Haxton'.