I guess veni has once again decided to take off until Thursday, Roomers are veni is trying to switch the match over to stars, This is very telling as to his mindset, He obviously thinks the fix is in on runitonce, He believes he is being cheated, Rightfully so at this point
-Allergic to the struggle
i have no idea of pokerstars rake schedule anymore, and I never played at those levels anyway, but had phil and vivendi played 25K hands heads up at £100/£200 PLO, how much in rake do you think they would've end up paying?
if im not mistaken there's not such thing as strict HU on stars anymore...
pretty sure they do all their heads up action in both NLHE and PLO via zoom pools so you are constantly getting new opponents if there are other people in the pool...plus stacks would always be switching around even if you were the only two in the pool...
Even if not at Stars, they could probably find some other site to do this at microstakes or play money where HU tables exist, especially with both being outside the US and having far more choices.
I really hope VeniVidi demands to play the rest out elsewhere, and we get to see how this plays out on a site other than Run It Once.
Of course, if Phil is being ghosted or is running a solver (or has already analyzed Veni's style for weakness), this won't change anything.
Not sure if stars does have HU any more, Maybe party poker does, As mentioned probably really don’t matter what site they move to, Veni just wants to get off of runitonce it seems. They other day phil won every all in to begin the day, Jumped up 160k, I know variance yada yada, I mean come on how can you play a guy at those stakes when he owns the fucking site? As mentioned 100% could be cheating going on with the software team, Maybe Phil doesn’t even know. I don’t forget the UB day when the fuckers played me at 75-150 or 150-300 LH forget which one but they didn’t let me win a pot, Lost like 20k In 15-20 minutes, So we all know it can happen
-Allergic to the struggle
They are back at it, Phil up 72k in first hour, Unreal again veni was stacked with aces full vs Phil’s quads, I know million dollar swing just phil running good, Carry on Nothing to see here
-Allergic to the struggle
variance be a cold, cold, cold bitch...
this is fucking impressive...
just ticked to galfond leading...Christ...
Sick part is veni after being up a million could easy end up losing 250-500k next 5000 hands, I wouldn’t be surprised if veni just quit after today and pays the 100k side bet, Probably the best thing he could do at this point
-Allergic to the struggle
There is now increasing talk that this whole thing is a setup... that it was possibly pre-agreed-upon by Galfond and Venividi for Galfond to fall way behind, "contemplate" quitting, take a few weeks off, barely decide to keep playing, and then come back and crush.
Could this have been a more perfect story for Phil and his site?
There's also the possibility that the match actually ended when Phil was 900k euro down, and an agreement was struck behind the scenes to pay Veni the 900k euro plus the sidebet plus some extra money, and then he would throw the rest of the match (which they'd never actually settle up in reality). In fact, if there is something shady going on here, I think that would be the most likely scenario, rather than it being set up the whole way. Such a deal would do a lot to both save Phil's rep and bring great marketing value to both his training site and poker site.
Of course, there would be no way to prove this, but it's not far-fetched to think this could be the case. We will have to see what happens with the other matches. I can't imagine that all 6 opponents would have agreed to do this, especially not guys like Jungleman.
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