After taking out on line casino proprietor Eric Persson in spherical one in all High Stakes Duel 4, Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu will likely be battling a way more formidable, and acquainted, opponent in high-stakes professional Doug Polk.
The match is scheduled for August, and can air completely on PokerGO. Each participant will put up $100,000 and the sport received’t finish till somebody has the entire chips.
Negreanu has already locked up $50,000 in revenue up to now this sequence, and has the choice to give up forward $150,000 ought to he beat Polk. If Polk wins, nevertheless, he’ll must win the $200,000 buy-in spherical to be able to money out. A participant can solely stroll away from the duel as soon as after two consecutive wins, and the shedding participant has the precise to a rematch.
Of course, Negreanu and Polk aren’t any strangers to one another’s video games. The two spent years buying and selling verbal and social media jabs earlier than settling their variations in a 25,000-hand heads-up problem on-line again in 2021. (That match did begin reside, with the primary 200 fingers streamed on PokerGO.)
Although Polk would go on to win $1.2 million from Negreanu (in addition to a large quantity in facet bets) throughout their periods, the Texas cardroom proprietor admitted that Negreanu had been a harder opponent than he initially thought, and it seems that the 2 outspoken gamers now not have animosity in the direction of one another.
“He did a really impressive job with a lot of the stuff he did,” stated Polk on the time. “I did not think he would play this well at all… By the end, he was doing so many sharp things.”
Negreanu was equally complimentary, declaring Polk’s means to make fast changes.
“Every [time] he came back prepared,” stated Negreanu. “He seemed to make some adjustments because there were always holes that we were looking to exploit. Then when he would get hammered in that spot, he’d go into the lab, come out of the weekend and okay, that hole is no longer valid.”
This is Negreanu’s second High Stakes Duel sequence on PokerGO, and it’s already going higher than the primary. In the Spring of 2021, Negreanu was swept in three matches by Phil Hellmuth.
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