Matt Berkey, on Thursday’s Solely Associates podcast, knowledgeable his viewers that he’ll be taking up a brand new heads-up opponent, and it is none apart from sports activities card store proprietor Jared Bleznick.
Each gamers have beforehand competed in closely publicized high-stakes battles. Bleznick not too long ago defeated Patrik Antonius, the 2024 Poker Corridor of Fame inductee, three consecutive instances for a $350,000 revenue on PokerGO’s Excessive Stakes Duel.
Berkey demolished the trash-talking Nik Airball at Las Vegas’ Resorts World in 2023 for $1 million, and it took him simply 60 hours of play to win. The Resolve for Why founder will step into the ring on HSD and function Bleznick’s subsequent opponent.
Heads-Up Poker Contest Particulars
The date hasn’t been set for when the present will air on PokerGO, and the specifics format can also be partially unknown presently. However the conventional Excessive Stakes Duel construction is for each gamers to buy-in for $50,000 in Spherical 1, after which the shedding participant, in the event that they go for a rematch, should pay $100,000 so as to add to the Spherical 2 prize pool. The pot doubles every spherical as much as as excessive as $12.8 million (Spherical 8) if the gamers are keen to go that far.
Berkey and Bleznick will battle at $200/$400 stakes with a minimal buy-in of $100,000 in “straight money, homie,” in keeping with the podcast host. They will play a mixture of no-limit maintain’em and pot-limit Omaha, very like Bleznick did in his competitors in opposition to Antonius.
The match must be intriguing because it pits a NLH specialist (Berkey) in opposition to a PLO crusher (Bleznick). However something can occur in a small pattern measurement match as was the case when Bleznick outplayed Antonius in no-limit maintain’em, a key to his victory.
“If I can simply maintain my very own in PLO, run considerably okay, then I am simply gonna bury his a** in maintain’em,” Berkey stated on the Solely Associates podcast. “He is aware of it, too.”
Berkey stated there’s “no actual dangerous blood” between him and his upcoming opponent like there was when he confronted Nik Airball, his hated rival. He additionally talked about that he has an in depth historical past of dealing with Bleznick heads-up, however solely on-line.
“I actually like Jared, and I get pleasure from enjoying with him and he provides me a ton of motion. So, it sort of felt proper, you recognize, to only give just a little again,” Berkey stated of agreeing to play some PLO, a recreation he does not sometimes play.
Patrik Antonius Surrenders After Three Defeats In opposition to Jared Bleznick
