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    Yeah good chance it was a puff piece or semi-puff-piece by someone friendly with him.

    Or ESPN was so desperate for "sports" coverage right now that they actually assigned someone to cover this, who wrote it from the angel of making Phil look like a hero.

    Pretty funny how he's called an "innovator" for owning Run It Once, given that there's only one thing innovative about the entire site ("Splash the Pot"), and it's still a missing some huge basics like tournaments. The real modern innovative site is GGPoker, as I mentioned on a recent radio show. Not surprisingly, it's also fully functional software ("superuser friendly", as someone we know once put it), and is now one of the most popular sites behind Pokerstars.

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    Phil silencing the conspiracy theorists, booking a nice win today despite playing on Party Poker vs ActionFreak:

    https://twitter.com/RunItOncePoker/status/1259241705829785601

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    Day 9 of the challenge and 5th straight challenge day on Party Poker Freak posts a big win of $256K. Through about 6500 of 15,000 hands we appear to have a ballgame as Phil’s lead has been cut down to $178K.

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    12th day of the challenge & 8th day straight on Party ActionFreak has cut the deficit to just about 100K with a little over a third of the challenge left. The crazy swings from the Venividi match seem like ages ago as this challenge has had understandably much less fanfare.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JeffDime View Post
    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Back to back winning sessions for <a href="https://twitter.com/crackLiNg1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@crackLiNg1</a>. Today, we saw him turn a €57,580.53 profit through 710 hands. We'll be back tomorrow with more action! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GalfondChallenge?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" >#GalfondChallenge</a> <a href="https://t.co/Ejz5bJaxRV">pic.twitter.com/Ejz5bJaxRV</a></p>&mdash; Run It Once Poker (@RunItOncePoker) <a href="https://twitter.com/RunItOncePoker/status/1261392387315658752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

    12th day of the challenge & 8th day straight on Party ActionFreak has cut the deficit to just about 100K with a little over a third of the challenge left. The crazy swings from the Venividi match seem like ages ago as this challenge has had understandably much less fanfare.
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    11k/15k hands done.

    Phil up $271k

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    Exclamation

    Galfond wins again, with substantially less drama.

    https://twitter.com/RunItOncePoker/status/1265392701677154305

    Now 2-0 against arguably the toughest two opponents.

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    Chance Kornuth will be playing him on September 16, presumably on Run It Once.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    Chance Kornuth will be playing him on September 16, presumably on Run It Once.

    I can’t imagine Chance and his backers are real excited about this regardless of the 4-1 side bet. Phil just beat two current top tier online PLO wizards. Perkins was all on Party and Phil basically held his lead after moving from Run It Once to Party against ActionFreak. The interest has seemed to ramp down a lot and a substantial part of that surely has to do with the Venividi comeback. Nothing could rival that story.

    I just wonder how much of this is about promoting Run It Once anymore. I kind of look at these as being somewhat interesting matches where Phil is a big favorite now to pad his bankroll. They certainly can’t hurt Run It Once presuming they have done everything ethically, but it is surely not a game changer for them to get into the mix with the bigger poker sites. I don’t know how good Chance is, but if he is no Venividi or ActionFreak, I would be trying to negotiate a buyout.
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    He's playing Chance Kornuth, a match notable because Chance will get a million bucks for winning the match, but only give up $250k for losing (plus whatever is won/lost in the match itself).

    Phil was consistently ahead for awhile, but Chance has popped him twice in a row, and now Chance is in the black.

    https://twitter.com/RunItOncePoker/status/1318845915705245696

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    Some drama about the time Galfond is using against Brandon Adams. Seems like Phil has a decent lead and is milking the clock. Seems to be within the rules. Here is the link.

    https://twitter.com/badams78/status/1420824569191886853

    https://twitter.com/PhilGalfond/status/1420827353903628289

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    This looks to be an uphill battle for Brandon. Problem is, Phil is clearly within the rules to stall. I think you can argue if it’s within the spirit of the challenge but by the parameters agreed to, as brutal as the stalling is for Brandon, it is what it is.

    To my knowledge Galfond is undefeated in these challenges. It must be a sizable number in total for himself and his backers. I know Brandon has a podcast but he he is not going to gain much bang for his buck when it comes to exposure. Maybe he’s doing it more for the challenge of it all. At the end of the day, Phil is ending up with all the money.

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    https://twitter.com/badams78/status/1420825474138132480


    Wait, what?

    Adams admits to clock milking "10% of the allowable time", and now is complaining Phil is doing it?

    Idiotic to have done this by time instead of by hands. Obviously this issue was going to come up.

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    https://twitter.com/badams78/status/1420934706724425729

    Wouldn’t moving this online just make Galfond a bigger favorite? I thought having this done live was the whole point for Adams. I guess we’ll see. But so far that’s how it’s looking.

    https://twitter.com/PhilGalfond/status/1421294630369259527

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    I don’t think waiving the 100K side bet to move this online was an act of generosity by Galfond.

    https://twitter.com/badams78/status/1421279333323141121

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    https://twitter.com/badams78/status/1422031299452162050

    Adams got within 35k before this, now down about 135k. He's in trouble.

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    Yup

    https://twitter.com/PhilGalfond/status/1429862620140478466

    Supposedly quitting was allowed at anytime by forfeiting the 100K side bet. Ouch.

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