Daniel Negreanu Daniel Negreanu Wins High Stakes Duel 4 and Cashes Out "Sometimes you're going to have to dig deep and make the call with marginal hands like that last hand." Negreanu didn't get out of line in his Round 2 match against Polk and played snug, and by the book.

High Stakes Duel is a series of heads-up poker matches. The first round of High Stakes Duel has a $50,000 buy-in with the two players involved playing No-Limit Hold'em in a heads-up poker tournament format to decide the winner who advances to Round 2.

Daniel Negreanu While dressed in a fake muscle shirt and tank top to poke a little fun at his opponent, Daniel Negreanu won his first round match against casino owner and amateur high stakes poker player Eric Persson on the made-for-broadcast Hight Stakes Duel last night.

Daniel Negreanu Daniel Negreanu still has a long way to go until he's even against Doug Polk. But he got a little back Thursday from his former rival. Negreanu won his highly anticipated match against Polk on “High Stakes Duel 4” on Thursday at the PokerGO studio near the Aria, taking home the $200,000 prize from Round 2 of the event.

the Big Game Perhaps the most famous high stakes poker game is the Big Game, a cash game regularly played in Bobby's Room at the famous Bellagio in Las Vegas. Generally, the blinds at this game are around $800/$1,600, however they have been reported to have been as high as $4,000/$8,000 .

Jason Koon Jason Koon has officially been crowned the champion of High Stakes Duel 3. The 37-year-old poker pro unseated 16-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth, who had an incredible 9-1 winning record when the pair squared off for the unique heads-up poker series from PokerGO.

A duel is a formalized contest of armed combat between two individuals (with pistols since the 18th Century), in which individuals are placed back to back with loaded weapons in hand, walk a set number of paces (like 20), turn to face the opponent and fire their pistol (sometimes simultaneously and sometimes in ...

Triton Million Bryn Kenney's win of over $20 million is the largest ever prize handed out at a poker tournament.

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Bluff More Often That being said, by reaching high stakes, you will need to significantly increase your bluffing frequencies and balance out your ranges. If you only ever bet big for value, you will start getting too many people to fold their big bluff-catchers and not give you the value you were hoping for.

Around 5 a.m. Sunday morning, Phil Hellmuth won the $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty event to claim the $803,818 first-place prize and put himself seven WSOP gold bracelets clear of every other player on the all-time list. Phil Hellmuth won his 17th WSOP bracelet on Sunday morning in Las Vegas.

Unlike in poker tournaments, the chips involved represent real money. If a player loses his or her initial buy-in, that player may rebuy a minimum of $50,000.