Just a pair days after dropping practically $300,000 in his $200-$400 heads-up no-limit maintain’em grudge match towards Doug Polk, placing him in a seven-figure gap, Daniel Negreanu reduce the whole deficit by practically 40% and had the largest profitable session of the whole problem.
On Friday afternoon, the 2 professionals squared off of their thirty first session of the problem and Negreanu dominated the match. They performed their longest session of the problem, battling for greater than 4 hours with Negreanu profitable $390,032 over 1,042 fingers.
With 18,924 of the 25,000-hand problem accomplished, Polk remains to be holding a $612,563 lead over Negreanu. Before Friday’s landslide victory for the six-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, Polk held the file for many cash gained in a session with $332,000 of their twelfth session.
After Polk’s large victory final Wednesday, Negreanu was in an enormous gap and had time operating out on him. In his post-game interview on the GGPoker YouTube channel, Negreanu stated that the $1 million gap he was in brought about him to play a lot totally different than regular.
“I guess the way I’ll describe it is like this,” stated Negreanu. “You got two choices. Lay down like a p***y. Alright, you lost. Match is f***ing over. Let’s play some small pots and just try and play properly and all that shit. Or you can go balls to the wall and play like a complete jackass. Which is exactly how I felt like I played today. Absolutely horrifyingly… I won’t even let my guys see the shit that I was doing today.”
He elaborated on his assertion and clarified that he simply needed to extend the variance and play bigger pots. Negreanu claimed that he was bluffing way more typically than regular and was deviating from what a solver would say is an optimum choice.
“[I have to] be willing to give away EV and play hands sub-optimally in order to increase variance so that it gives me a better chance to win the match,” stated Negreanu. “I was a monkey just going click-click with buttons today.”
While Negreanu was self-deprecating in his personal analysis of the way in which he performed Friday, there was a minimum of one high-stakes professional that loved the strikes he was making.
On Doug Polk’s YouTube channel, Dan Smith was doing commentary on the match and complimented Negreanu on his play. Smith is fifth on poker’s all-time cash record and has gained $36.7 million in stay tournaments alone.
Negreanu’s practically 10-buyin rating was the biggest of the problem to date, however based on Polk, it is a swing that ought to’ve been anticipated.
“I was hoping it wasn’t going to happen to me in this challenge,” stated Polk in his personal post-match interview. “But early on when I talked about variance in heads-up and what can happen in a session, I said it a bunch of times. It happens that people win or lose 10 buyins in a session. I feel that because it hadn’t happened yet this challenge, it feels like it wasn’t really possible.”
While Negreanu is clearly driving momentum heading into the three periods scheduled for this week, he’s not even near out of the woods but. He remains to be caught about 15 buyins with 6,076 fingers remaining within the problem.
“Going forward now, we are going to have to see how far behind I am and see if I can afford to play like not a jackass,” stated Negreanu.
He used a soccer analogy to explain his play on Friday, saying that he was throwing a Hail Mary to attempt to get again inside placing distance. His group and coaches may inform him to desert the technique he was utilizing. In truth, Negreanu claimed that he was receiving messages that had been advising him to give up. But if he does sustain the hyper-aggressive fashion, the Toronto native thinks these swings might turn out to be the norm, given Polk’s fashion of play.
“We had so many sessions where he won a buyin, I won half a buyin,” stated Negreanu. “If I play like a jackass and he just plays like he plays… 10 buyin swings are going to happen. He’s not a guy that is trying to nit it up and play careful.”
