Online poker pro "Action Freak" claimed back-to-back wins in the latest Galfond Challenge, reducing his deficit of €410,000 by over 50%.
Challenging Others
After Phil Galfond won against "Venividi1993" after a lengthy heads-up Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO) fight that took around three months, the three-time WSOP bracelet winner didn't waste any time and proceeded to roll with his other challenges next in line.
While he has already started playing against Bill Perkins in an on-and-off battle mainly revolving around the challenger's schedule, Galfond has also started playing against online PLO star "ActionFreak" on Monday, April 27th.
Considered by the poker community as Galfond's toughest challenge yet, he and ActionFreak were set to play 15,000 hands of Pot-Limit Omaha at the €150/€300 stakes. ActionFreak also agreed to a side bet of equal odds for €150,000.
The Monday sesh was cut abruptly due to connection issues, and the Tuesday sesh was sort of in vain for Galfond as he opened up a lead of over €200,000 just to lose almost all of it in the end.
However, ActionFreak who was able to win more lumps but failed to do so on Thursday as he suffered a massive loss of €310,000. Still no luck for him come Friday, as Galfond won another six-figure win letting him get to a substantial early lead of over €400,000 with just under 2,700 hands played.
Bringing the Galfond Challenge to partypoker
The Galfond Challenges usually take place on Galfond's poker site, but because the challenger was having issues moving money to the site, on the second week of play with ActionFreak the battle took place at partypoker, which proved to be beneficial for the challenger as he beat Galfond and won €95,000. Since some of their sessions were held at partypoker, the real-name tables on the site revealed that ActionFreak's name was Ioannis Kontonatsios. A further win left ActionFreak stuck around eight buy-ins total.
Day 1 & 2
Hands Played: 1,017
Results: ActionFreak +€7,529.49
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Day 3
Hands Played: 844
Results: Phil Galfond +€310,594.59
Full Session video:
Day 4
Hands Played: 665
Results: Phil Galfond +€113,377.48
Full Session video:
Day 5
Hands Played: 680
Results: ActionFreak +€95,304.17
Full Session video:
Day 6
Hands Played: 727
Results: ActionFreak +€74,625.85
Full Session video:
Source:
https://www.pokernews.com/news/2020/05/galfond-challenge-actionfreak-early-lead-37144.htm
https://www.runitonce.eu/galfond-challenge/#actionfreak
