A few more sessions like that and the match will become a coinflip. But after Monday’s impressive performance, he’s now within striking distance.

Polk remains the heavy favorite and it won’t be easy for Negreanu to pull off a win. The deficit, once nearly at $1 million, is now down to $484,073 with 9,250 hands remaining. For the first time in a while, he dominated the final hour of play and finished with a $132,648 profit over 750 hands. He erased much of the deficit at one point, but never caught up.Īnd then Negreanu took over late. So, Negreanu had to continue battling to uphold his lead.ĭuring the middle of the session, after trailing by over $100,000, Polk found some success with big bets, forcing Negreanu off pots. Polk is a difficult opponent who rarely tilts when he’s losing. He jumped out of the gate to a quick $40,000 lead and then progressively built that over the four hours of play. On Day 26, the six-time WSOP bracelet winner started and finished strong. He would dominate for a couple of hours and then give back a big chunk of his profits in the final half hour. The reason he was unable to scoop big wins is down to late session collapses in most of those days. That’s less than five total buy-ins (each buy-in costs $40,000). Negreanu won the previous four sessions but only by a combined $175,000. Monday’s session was similar in one way to the previous four days and different in another. But the truth of the matter is he’s only down 12 buy-ins with nearly 10,000 hands remaining. It may seem like Daniel Negreanu is getting crushed if you look at the overall scoreboard. But sometimes the prognosticators in sports and poker aren’t right.

On the other hand, if you take away the luck factor from the first 19 sessions, there hasn’t been much difference in terms of skill between these players.Īnd that’s surprising to most because Polk is considered one of the best heads-up NLH players ever, while Negreanu is known for his live multi-table tournament prowess. Polk has a big lead and he was the 5-1 favorite heading into the challenge. In a sense, the outcome is close to what most expected. Polk and Negreanu are now 15,250 hands through a 25,000-hand heads-up no-limit hold’em poker challenge at the $200/$400 stakes on in Nevada. And it wasn’t long ago that he was down by such a huge amount. But the good news for him is he’s on the right track after once trailing by more than $950,000. The bad news for the GGPoker ambassador is he still faces a massive deficit.

Things got even better for the Poker Hall of Famer on Monday as he shipped a six-figure win, his fifth consecutive winning session. Daniel Negreanu has been an absolute beast on the virtual felt against Doug Polk in recent weeks.

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