Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu are set to face off again on May 5 on the PokerGO show High Stakes Duel II. The rematch will likely play out differently than Round 1, but that doesn’t mean we’ll have a brand-new winner.
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In the first parallel, which took place March 31 at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas, Hellmuth won the $ 100,000 prize pool ($ 50,000 buy-in each) thanks to a superhuman comeback. At one point in the game, he had just 3,000 of the 100,000 chips in play. But he’s one of the best ever at ploy a small stack, and for the umpteenth time in his profession, rallied to win.
Round 2 will have the same sit n move mode format in the same venue. But this time around, the stakes are being raised to a $200,000 bowl. However, exclusively Negreanu is required to add to the pot because he lost the first match, and must pay $100,000 to enter.
Can’t Rely on Luck this Time
When you’re down 97,000 to 3,000 in microchips , no matter how skilled you are, you need some serious prosperity to draw out a succes. Even if you doubled up in four consecutive pass, you’ll still be at a slight harm. If Hellmuth gets behind penetrating this time around, he’s likely going to lose.
In expressions of form of frolic, Phil Hellmuth is Phil Hellmuth. He’s openly against adapting to modern poker strategy and even declared pate into the first session that he won’t do much preparation for Negreanu. His philosophy on the game is similar to University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban, who knows he has the most talented unit every year. Saban doesn’t change up his style of play based on his opposing much. Instead, his policy is to run the same type of game plan against every crew and if the foe is good enough to beat them, so be it, but that rarely happens.
Hellmuth’s mindset on poker is similar. He uses what he dubs a” White Magic” poker style, which focuses on exploiting opponents based on his supposed live reads. That’s how he’s played for many years and you shouldn’t expect that to change for the upcoming match, or any competitor for that matter. If his resist can beat that programme, then so be it( even though he often complains when that happens ).
We know how Hellmuth is going to play. He’s going to form some controversial laydowns and patiently await the excellent opportunity to double up on a big hand. Negreanu, on the other hand, might just show up with a few deceptions in his bag.
Negreanu’s poker studies in recent months have focused on GTO and employing an opponent’s weakness. So, unlike Hellmuth, he is likely to have a slightly different game plan than Round 1. Perhaps, he’ll show more aggressivenes on boards he missed, whereas in Round 1 he rarely fired a triple cannon bluff.
If Negreanu is more aggressive this time around, it’s likely the rematch will be a quicker session, one acces or another. It took six hours of back and forth play to wrap up Hellmuth’s Round 1 winning. Don’t expect a repeat on May 5.
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