It's not a fair fight.
I think Daniel is going to get smoked. Number 1 heads up player vs old school tournament and mixed game player. Not exactly a fair fight. I think Daniel should make half the hands duece to seven to make it an even battle. Otherwise I wouldn't bet on Daniel if you gave me 10-1 odds. 15-1 I'll put 50 bucs on Dnegs if anyone wants it. Only 1 person though I'm poor.
I think Daniel is going to get smoked. Number 1 heads up player vs old school tournament and mixed game player. Not exactly a fair fight. I think Daniel should make half the hands duece to seven to make it an even battle. Otherwise I wouldn't bet on Daniel if you gave me 10-1 odds. 15-1 I'll put 50 bucs on Dnegs if anyone wants it. Only 1 person though I'm poor.
A heads-up match is unlikely to establish a good relationship between Daniel Negreanu and Doug Polk. Perhaps it will give rise to new duels. Free live streaming is cool. Viewers will see a real battle when the structure and bids are finally determined.
Vallet said:
This is not about establishing a good relationship between the two. Doug's calling out of Daniel over time isn't ever going to change, and Daniel doesn't even mention Doug's name when he's discussing the challenge on his podcast (DAT Poker Podcast). Good rapport between the two - NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN!!!
rrickir said:
It won't be until at least October, as Daniel is busy playing the GG portion of the wsop right now, and then once he's done, he's going to get coaching for this matchup.
RiverRick said:
Probably, but Daniel's no fool - he's going to get coaching, and mentioned on his Podcast that Phil Hellmuth and Mike Matusow are going to be his coaches (Hellmuth for the pre-flop portion) and Matusow for the River play. Daniel concedes that he's a big underdog to beat him, but I don't think he's going to get crushed either. Plus, Doug hasn't played much poker recently either and has now started taking offers on Twitter to play against anybody to practice for the upcoming match.
VBB112 said:
See above.
eagleaces said:
Daniel said himself that he hasn't played heads-up in about 10 years, going back to the time he was an ambassador for Wynn Casino, and was playing heads-up matches against all comers. He's going to need to catch up on current heads-up play to have a reasonable chance against Doug.
Alucard said:
Contrary to what you're saying, this has generated quite a bit of discussion and interest.
Neither of them are shrinking violets when it comes to promotion or publicity- I'd expect every drop to be wrung out (and then some) long before it actually happens- LOL.
Doug Polk no.1 HU player in the world....?
Are you our of your tree!? :laugh:
Guy's a muppet.
Doug Polk no.1 HU player in the world....?
Are you our of your tree!? :laugh:
Guy's a muppet.
Vallet said:
The author's hope that this will put an end to this feud is drawing pretty dead. Daniel's never going to like Doug and Doug will never stop taking shots at Daniel (who doesn't even reciprocate, so it's not even like there's a back and forth to begin with).
Poker Orifice said:
LOL!!! Well played. 🙂
Shells said:
This should be interesting, seems to me that Polk has a little edge because he is a HU specialist although he hasn’t play for a while, and then Daniel, is active but doesn’t play that format
So it’s pretty even.. more or less
Shells said:
Going to be awesome to watch. Daniel N. has always been one of my favorite if not my favorite poker player to watch. However, I remember Doug from the warcraft 3 rts scene before I even started playing poker. Used to be called T-rider and then WCGrider (world cyber games). I gotta pull for Doug in this match.
