Polk vs Negreanu almost got derailed

While issues have been surprisingly cordial within the excessive stakes grudge match between Daniel Negreanu and Doug Polk, it almost went off the rails this week. 

After the 2 got here to an settlement about preflop charts, it appeared the subsequent large sticking level was the problem of Polk inputting hand histories right into a poker tracker software program after their matches. HUDs are prohibited on WSOP.com the place the match is being performed however Polk was doing this solely to replay the session afterwards for additional research. 

Bill Perkins, who has bets with each males on the result of the match, gave the impression to be the driving force for the drama. 

Match delayed because of disagreement over guidelines. One get together(@DougPolkVids )thinks its okay to manually enter in hand historical past to software program and have frequency evaluation completed and the opposite doesn’t (@RealKidPoker) Big drawback that Dnegs has not been doing this. @PhilGalfond time #Poker

— Bill Perkins (Guy) (@bp22) November 17, 2020

After some backwards and forwards Negreanu and Polk went to 3rd get together Phil Galfond to make a ruling on what could be allowed and what wouldn’t when it comes to knowledge accumulation. It appears that some events, largely Perkins, had been confused as to what ‘knowledge mining’ meant on this context. To a web based poker outsider reviewing hand histories after a match may appear unfair, however it’s completely regular and allowed by all the key poker rooms 

I cant consider I’ve to defend opening up the consumer and a 400 hand session what number of occasions my opponent folded the button.

This is among the most nit choosy bitch shit I’ve ever been part of.

— Doug “Truck Driver” Polk (@DougPolkVids) November 17, 2020

The problem is again on

Galfond clearly dominated that manually inputting arms after a match was fantastic and the 2 agreed they had been good to go. It appears like neither Polk or Negreanu had a significant situation and had been simply responding Perkins greater than something. 

Yup we’re good to go. Want to thank Phil for spending the time to assist us out. 👍 https://t.co/Lw90OyrMwj

— Doug “Truck Driver” Polk (@DougPolkVids) November 18, 2020

Phil’s spouse Farah Galfond was available to supply some comedian reduction to diffuse the sitiation:

Match delayed because of disagreement over guidelines. One get together(@DougPolkVids )thinks its okay to manually enter in hand historical past to software program and have frequency evaluation completed and the opposite doesn’t (@RealKidPoker) Big drawback that Dnegs has not been doing this. @PhilGalfond time #Poker

— Bill Perkins (Guy) (@bp22) November 17, 2020

The match resumes and is in full swing, with each males reserving stable profitable periods. At the time of writing after 2,374 arms Polk is up $67,625.81 (one and a half buy-ins) with 22,626 arms left to play. 

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Barry Carter

Barry Carter is the editor of PokerStrategy.com and the co-author of The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2, Poker Satellite Strategy and PKO Poker Strategy