The much anticipated rematch between Daniel Negrenau and Viktor Blom “isildur1″ in PokerStars superstar cards played on Sunday, but not as expected.
Last weekend, Negreanu had fallen $ 150.000 Blom in the first half of the match. Daniel looked to avenge the loss and spent a week practicing at PokerStars.
At an early stage, things looked much like they did in last week’s challenge. Isildur1 jumped out, early lead and the first hand that lead 855 ranged between $ 15 k and $ 50 k.
That steadily grew until isildur1 was more than $ 110.000 and looked again to Daniel stack.
Around 1500 the tide began to turn the hands back to favouring Negreanu.
In 151 hands after Negreanu withdrew over $ 102 000 in pots, to cut the lead to just $ Isildur1 49.500. He further reduced this just $ 7800 before Blom pulled back ahead of the $ 20 000.
Then left arm around 348 in the match, Negreanu led for the first time in the match. He managed to hold onto the lead for the remainder of the match.
With 14 hands left Negreanu has $ 8800 and could put down his path to an easy victory. Not one to easily route, Negreanu was playing at the end and wound up filling his winnings.
In the hands of closure as Pocket Queens and Pocket ACEs held against Blom give Daniel a final total of $ 500 per day 26.
While this challenge goes down as Blom finished two matches against Negreanu by $ 123.500. The loss against Negreanu officially makes Blom 5-2 in problem disassembling superstar. His only other loss came against online poker icon Isaac Haxton.
In accordance with the statement made at the end of the match the next superstar showdown call will kick off next Sunday, will take on Scott Isildur1 “urnotindanger” Palmer.
The next match will also be divided into two parts with two players, playing a total of 5000 hands.