Viktor Blom Vs Daniel Negreanu
Posted by Poker Videos on March 20th, 2011Isildur1 VS Daniel Negreanu
The much anticipated matchup between Viktor Blom screen name Isildur1 finally kicked off at 3 pm EST on Sunday afternoon. Both players brought $150,000 to the tables and the two four-tabled $50-$100 NL Hold’em.
Isildur1 wasted no time getting out of the gates. In the first three hands of the match, Blom was all-in twice and came out on top in each hand. The result was $26,150 lead for Blom.
Negreanu tried to keep things close between the two, but by about hand 658, Isildur1 had jumped out to a $61,300 lead. To say that Isildur1 was running well was an understatement. Often, he was behind in hands against Negreanu, and managed to find a way to come out on top. For example, in the following hand, Blom shoved all-in on the flop with just a flush draw. Negrenau had flopped top pair with best kicker and called. The turn came trips for Negreanu, but the river fell a disastrous spade to give Isildur1 a $25,604 pot.
By the time we got to hand 935, Isildur1 had broken the $100k mark and play had degraded down to just three tables. Isildur1 led by $119k at this point. Isildur1 wasn’t winning them all by luck however. In the following hand, Negreanu decided to shove on the flop with an open ended straight draw. Isildur1 had pocket aces and made the easy call. Daniel couldn’t hit his outs, and Isildur1 took another $14k pot.
Play was down to about two tables and things looked to be about over with when Negreanu made a final comeback attempt around hand 1,165. He managed to grow his roll back to enough to force the online poker match back to four tables. Part of his comeback was based on doubling up against Isildur1 after catching quads on the turn. Negreanu had flopped a set of sixes and Isildur1 a flush draw. The turn brought another six and Isildur1 decided that shoving with a flush draw here was a good move. Daniel obviously wasted no time in calling and the rail got a good laugh as Negreanu doubled up with quads.
That was really the last gasp for Negreanu as it was all downhill from that point. Eventually, the match moved down to three tables, then two, and then finally to just a single table. Negreanu was down to his last $11,000 when he decided to gamble with Isildur1. After Blom made it $300, Daniel raised to $1,000. Isildur1 decided then super-shove for $22,903. Daniel thought for a while and finally said “meh” and “let’s gamble I guess.” He then made the call showing Ks-Jc. Isildur1 showed Ac-Kh and Daniel was dominated. The flop fell 10s-7d-Jd to give Negreanu top pair. Of course, as was customary on this day, Isildur1 hit the turn when the Qc. Only a river ace would allow Negreanu to chop the pot. The river fell the 4d and the beat down was over.
The first match between Daniel Negreanu and Viktor Blom ended with Blom busting Daniel in 1,439 hands. After the match, Daniel stated ” That was pretty frustrating. Lost the match in 1439 hands. In 20k + pots he beat me 12-2 and I ran 44k under par in all in pots again.” This is the first challenge that has ended early due to someone busting. Of course, this is not much of a surprise considering that Negreanu has been getting his teeth kicked in recently at the $50-$100 heads-up tables. Perhaps he should have taken his own advice and waited a while longer to play Blom.
This challenge had been originally scheduled to take place over two weekends and for a total of 5,000 hands. It is unclear whether week two will now happen due to Negreanu’s busting. An announcement has not been made regarding the 2nd week as of the time of the posting of this article.
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