Negreanu vs. Polk: Doug broke the million-dollar mark

Author

Vargoso

Published

1/22/2021

Updated

11/24/2022

The heads-up challenge between Daniel Negreanu and Doug Polk reached the milestone of 30 game sessions. This anniversary gave all viewers of the match a big surprise. At the end of the day, Doug broke the million-dollar mark in profit and is now winning $1,002,596 after 17,878 hands.

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Results after 30 sessions

After Daniel Negreanu complained about his opponent's luck, the match continued with an exciting session that included the biggest pot of the challenge and many jokes from Doug Polk on his social medial.

Session	Winner	Amount	Hands
26	Daniel Negreanu	$132,649	750
27	Doug Polk	$119,610	600
28	Doug Polk	$26,199	650
29	Doug Polk	$73,000	608
30	Doug Polk	$298,985	770
TOTAL	Doug Polk	$1,002,596	17,878

Doug Polk won four sessions in a row with a total profit of $517,794, and after 17,878 hands, he is winning $1,002,596 from Daniel.

Doug Polk on fire

Before starting the game on Thursday, the Canadian shared a message, predicting he would win $228k.

Daniel Negreanu tweets

This tweet was the last one devoted to his confrontation with Polk. However, Doug, who always paid more attention to the results on social networks, kept mocking Negreanu's comments about luck and tweeted 33 messages during the session.

One of these tweets highlighted the biggest pot in the match, in which he loss $384,216.

Polk wasn't the only one joking about Negreanu's last interview. Joey Ingram changed his name on Twitter to include the word "LUCKY" and shared "impossible hands" of the last session. He invited Rob Yong to the commentary.

Doug Polk and his

There are just over six thousand hands left to play, and now the winner's name is almost written in stone. It remains to see how much Daniel Negreanu will lose in the end or whether we will be able to make a spectacular comeback.

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