Jared Bleznick will face Patrik Antonius High Stakes Duel V

Excessive Stakes Duel is again!

The favored heads-up poker present hasn’t been seen since August 2023 when Daniel Negreanu defeated Eric Persson in Spherical 1 of Excessive Stakes Duel IV after which Doug Polk to pocket $200,000. Earlier than that, it was December 2022 when Jason Koon defeated Phil Hellmuth in Spherical 5 of Excessive Stakes Duel III, giving the previous a $1.6 million payday.

Properly, the present is returning with two poker heavyweights going head-to-head. Patrik Antonius, who this summer time was inducted into the Poker Corridor of Fame, and Jared Bleznick, a sports activities card fanatic who received his first gold bracelet throughout this 12 months’s World Sequence of Poker (WSOP), will every put up $50,000 for Spherical 1.

Excessive Stakes Duel V will happen on Tuesday, November 12 inside PokerGO Studio and shall be performed half no-limit maintain’em and half pot-limit Omaha with the sport switching each 10 fingers. Followers can watch the motion on PokerGO at 8 p.m. ET (5 p.m. PT). Whoever wins will declare $100,000, however every spherical doubles till one of many contenders bows out. When that occurs, the winner of the ultimate match shall be deemed the Excessive Stakes Duel V champ.

There’s no cap on how excessive the stakes can get and may look one thing like this:

Spherical 1 – $100,000 Prize PoolRound 2 – $200,000 Prize PoolRound 3 – $400,000 Prize PoolRound 4 – $800,000 Prize PoolRound 5 – $1,600,000 Prize PoolRound 6 – $3,200,000 Prize PoolRound 7 – $6,400,000 Prize PoolRound 8 – $12,800,000 Prize Pool

Bleznick, who received the first-ever Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl PLO, is a famend Omaha participant, although Antonius is true up there having performed in a few of the highest stakes on the planet each reside and on-line.

“We couldn’t be extra excited for the return of Excessive Stakes Duel with a matchup that embodies every little thing this sequence is about – depth, talent, and high-stakes drama,” stated Brent Hanks, Director of Programming at PokerGO. “Jared and Patrick are surely two of probably the most achieved and proficient gamers within the recreation, and watching them battle it out with the stakes doubling every spherical goes to be an exciting experience. That is the type of edge-of-your-seat poker that our followers crave, and we’re proud to ship it.”

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Historical past of Excessive Stakes Duel

Hosted by Ali Nejad, Excessive Stakes Duel premiered on July 30, 2020, and instantly proved successful in its first two iterations due in no small half to an unimaginable run by Hellmuth, who swept each Esfandiari and Negreanu till each bowed out.

Hellmuth then defeated sports activities journalist Nick Wright within the first spherical of Excessive Stakes Duel III and when he opted to forego a rematch, Tom Dwan stepped as much as the plate and dealt Hellmuth his first-ever loss on the present. Nonetheless, Hellmuth went for a Spherical 3 and received, after which Dwan backed out of Spherical 4 main Scott Seiver to attempt his luck. Sadly for him, he misplaced his $400,000 buy-in to Hellmuth!

Initially Seiver was going to place up $800,000 for a rematch towards Hellmuth, however he backed out and Jason Koon put it as much as battle within the largest Excessive Stakes Duel to this point. Koon prevailed to win $1.6 million, and he was in a position to money out when Hellmuth declined a seven-figure rematch and no different challenges stepped up.

For Excessive Stakes Duel IV, Mike Matusow defeated Shaun Deeb in a $10,000 buy-in undercard match earlier than Negreanu beat Persson within the $50,000 Spherical 1. Persson backed out of a deliberate rematch the next day and as a substitute, Polk stuffed in for the $100,000 buy-in Spherical 2. Negreanu received, cashed out, and Excessive Stakes Duel has been on hiatus ever since.

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