Polk, a 31-year-old Henderson resident, is a three-time WSOP bracelet winner with more than $9 million in tournament earnings, but he made his name in poker by beating the best players in the world in heads-up No-limit Hold’em online, while Negreanu is known primarily as a live multitable tournament player.Ĭontact Jim Barnes at or 70. Negreanu, a 46-year-old Las Vegas resident, is a six-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner with $42 million in live tournament earnings, according to the Hendon Mob Poker Database. Negreanu and Polk have a long-standing feud, with Polk attacking Negreanu for his actions while an ambassador for the online poker site PokerStars as well as some of his personal behavior.

The sessions are usually streamed online on the players’ separate Twitch and YouTube channels. Negreanu and Polk are typically playing three sessions per week. Negreanu won $17,780.32 on Monday, but that came after Polk booked a massive $332,178.14 win Saturday to extend his lead to nearly $600,000. Polk and Negreanu have played 13 sessions so far. The match is being played online on after the first 200 hands were played live at the PokerGO studio by the Aria. Doug 'Truck Driver' Polk December 1, 2020 Daniel is playing much better imo, lots of new moves. It was looking like we were gonna lose 2 or 3 buyins then we hit an extremely nice top pair to win a 3 buyin pot to close out the session. The poker stars have agreed to play 25,000 hands, though the player who is losing can end the match after 12,500 hands.

Polk is up $578,417.57 after 6,227 hands of No-limit Hold’em at stakes of $200-$400 (a $40,000 initial buy-in for each session). Patrick Connolly Las Vegas Review-Journal Polk has taken a sizable lead in his heads-up poker challenge match with Daniel Negreanu. Doug Polk competes in the World Series of Pokerճ $111,111 buy-in High Roller for One Drop No-limit Holdեm tournament at the Rio Convention Center on Monday, June 5, 2017.

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