The popular High Stakes Duel show, which brings together the battles of world poker legends for hundreds of thousands of dollars, has already shown many interesting duels, in which various greats presented themselves. Among them, perhaps the most controversial Phil Hellmuth, who won the first series of this show, is no less successful in the next one (8 wins, 1 loss).
Here he was opposed by the legendary Tom "durrrr" Dwan, who managed to beat him once out of three rounds. Because the rules are clear, bets must be doubled with each revenge, so after the revenge was announced, spectators could look forward to Round 4, in which each of the players had to invest $400,000.
However, the original plans to play Hellmuth's revenge with Dwan were disrupted by Durrrr's busy schedule, due to which he failed to reach Vegas on the scheduled date. However, the organizers were not lazy and immediately found an ideal replacement for Tom - the 24th man in the world all-time money list, Scott Seiver, sat on the other side of the special heads-up table.
The substitute took on his role seriously and even though the beginning of the duel belonged mainly to Phil, after the collision of QQ vs JJ, Seiver took the lead 2: 1. Hellmuth made a comeback after beating an opponent with the last 10 blinds behind, and there was no going back since that moment. Hellmuth turned on an unstoppable mode and could soon rejoice in another very valuable prize.
"He was a very tough opponent, just as I expected. He is one of the best players in the world and I really enjoyed the game against him ", said a satisfied Hellmuth after the match. "The key hand was definitely my check-raise bluff on the A-high river. In many of these fights, I pulled a big bluff out of my sleeves, and I'm glad that it worked out for me this time as well."
If the players agree on revenge, we would witness the biggest match in the history of this show, which would play for $1.6 million. In order for Phil to win the championship belt and be able to cash out his winnings, he must win one more round. Do you think we'll see both players in retaliation? Will Phil be able to defend his title and stretch his incredible winning string?
Source: PGT.com, PokerNews.com
