Phil Galfond halts his challenge vs VeniVidi1993 being over 900.000€ in the red

It looks like the Galfonds challenge that is running from half a month might be already over.

Galfond and ‘VeniVidi1993’ have battled across 15 sessions at €100-€200 PLO on Run It Once Poker, Galfond’s online poker site to promote the site. Through those 15 sessions, 9,927 hands were played and Galfond was down €900,240.17. The three most recent sessions have set Galfond back €419,016.77 alone.

Phil said the two had six more sessions planned in February and that missing those sessions will see Galfond take a per-session penalty of about €3,000 each. Galfond and ‘VeniVidi1993’ were planning to play 25,000 hands, with Galfond risking €200,000 in side action to the €100,000 of ‘VeniVidi1993.’ In his note, Galfond said he is going to suspend playing anymore sessions against ‘VeniVidi1993’ until at least March 1.

When March 1 rolls around, Galfond will decide if he’s going to continue to battle with ‘VeniVidi1993’ or call it off. If Galfond does elect to call it off and accept defeat, he’ll have to pay ‘VeniVidi1993’ the €200,000 side bet money.

“I hope I feel prepared to come back and put on a good show for you all, but I know that realistically, as much as I don’t want to, there’s a chance I’ll have to just take the loss,” Galfond said.

Challenge Results To Date
Hands Played Daily Winner Amount Won
Day 1 (Jan. 22) 655 VeniVidi1993 €72,572.68
Day 2 (Jan. 23) 715 Phil Galfond €2,615.26
Day 3 (Jan. 24) 557 VeniVidi1993 €84,437.52
Day 4 (Jan. 25) 581 VeniVidi1993 €17,544.87
Day 5 (Jan. 27) 726 VeniVidi1993 €155,063.52
Day 6 (Jan. 28) 703 VeniVidi1993 €13.31
Day 7 (Jan. 30) 823 VeniVidi1993 €52,057.13
Day 8 (Jan. 31) 940 VeniVidi1993 €60,743.37
Day 9 (Feb. 1) 446 VeniVidi1993 €12,706.51
Day 10 (Feb. 3) 696 VeniVidi1993 €100,993.30
Day 11 (Feb. 4) 741 VeniVidi1993 €15,647.36
Day 12 (Feb. 6) 622 Phil Galfond €87,940.91
Day 13 (Feb. 7) 470 VeniVidi1993 €267,949.70
Day 14 (Feb. 8) 593 VeniVidi1993 €48,473.73
Day 15 (Feb. 9) 659 VeniVidi1993 €102,593.34
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Total 9,927 VeniVidi1993 €900,240.17

Galfond still has plenty of more people lined up against him - details say he's to go against Bill Perkins, Brandon Adams, Chance Kornuth, Dan ‘Jungleman’ Cates, and high-stakes online poker player ‘ActionFreak.’ Those matches have their own specific terms, stakes, and length of play, but no timetable has been set for when they will take place.

haha wrecked

Luke Schwartz made a very rude tweet to Phil but he had one good point, it was a big mistake to play a "random gto bot", it was very likely he was going to be a big dog and also there isnt much glory or buzz if he defeats venividi

On February 18 2020 06:03 Baalim wrote: Luke Schwartz made a very rude tweet to Phil but he had one good point, it was a big mistake to play a "random gto bot", it was very likely he was going to be a big dog and also there isnt much glory or buzz if he defeats venividi

saw that

and Phil responded in such a nice way that Luke kind of backed off his original tweet lmao

More like vici

brutal

Come on, Luke ???? Call me a delusional, outmatched washed-up, nice(?) nerd all you want, but don’t act like I’m dodging our challenge. We’ll play when I’m done with a few of these, probably after WSOP, as we’ve discussed & planned. Do I have to post our texts?

- Galfond

so nobody knows who this vinni is?

he is random gto reg #271

How would Bill Perkins find the time to play 25k hands

durr is the goat

According to P5's Veni rage quit today's session. Lost 2 hands in a row and split. Galfond only down like 300k now.

Lol, what a crazy comeback

On March 22 2020 05:50 NewbSaibot wrote: According to P5's Veni rage quit today's session. Lost 2 hands in a row and split. Galfond only down like 300k now.

lol this is turning out to be great, such drama

Maybe an update for this challenge now considering they have played around 19k hands and Galfond is only 150k in the red.

20k hands in only 40k behind
Biggest comeback ever? 45 BIs to 2

maybe veni will go on another 50bi upswing again, ya never know

If he maintains his current WR where will that project his earnings by the time it's over

less than 3k hands to go and Galfond is up 4 buy ins lmao

^ I prefer to look at it as veni down 54 buyins

600 hands to go they are virtually even

On February 19 2020 06:45 Santafairy wrote: More like vici

too early :D

Final result: PG finishes like 8k ahead? Obvious staged match to promote new site

can someone say superuser?

An update to this would probably make some sense..

With every passing day I enjoy seeing this on the front page more and more. Even after Galfond has taken all the money in the world in a 6max mega challenge against Bezos, the IMF, the ECB, Black Rock and the Fed, and is issuing a new open challenge to the Galaxy, this will still be here.

It’s like the headline is 1940 - Europe Fucked, Allies take a break.

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Aside from updating the Sports and Betting forum with UFC content, should I also start updating the front page with poker news?

Defrag went MIA in February 2020, which is when the first mention of Covid began to spread worldwide. Are the two related???

^ yeah it would be nice if someone updated the front page