Scott Seiver and Phil Hellmuth to Perform for $1.6 Million on Superior Stakes Duel

Three months just after dropping to Phil Hellmuth on High Stakes Duel III, Scott Seiver has knowledgeable his opponent he just isn’t throwing in the towel and will problem the “Poker Brat” to a rematch in August with the pot bumped up to $1.6 million.

The actual date hasn’t however been determined, but in accordance to Hellmuth’s late Monday tweet, the gamers and PokerGO are figuring that aspect out.

Everyone who adopted Seiver’s dedication to poker this earlier weekend — he fired 43 bullets in the WSOP $1,000 FLIP & GO — shouldn’t be surprised he demanded a rematch towards the 16-time bracelet winner.

How We Received Right here

In Round 4 again in May perhaps, Seiver changed Tom Dwan, who was not able to make it to Las Vegas in time for the $800,000 spherical. Dwan experienced defeated Hellmuth in Spherical 2, but then dropped the rematch in Spherical 3.

Per the show’s guidelines, the dropping participant ought to add more than enough revenue to double the former round prize pool for a rematch to happen. No participant can cash out until finally after three consecutive wins, or there are no a lot more keen opponents.

The activity always starts with a $50,000 buy-in per participant, doubling every single round most likely all the way up to $12.8 million. Nick Wright, a well-known FS1 sports activities communicate demonstrate host temperament, was Hellmuth’s initial opponent in Spherical 1 of the current collection of online games on High Stakes Duel. He missing a difficult-fought struggle and declined to rematch.

That left the door open for another participant, which ended up currently being Dwan and then eventually Seiver, who was essential to shell out $400,000 to enter the video game. He’ll now be on the hook for yet another $800,000 to make what will be just one of the premier televised heads-up poker battles you can at any time see.

Need to Hellmuth get in Round 5, PokerGO would allow for him to take the money and operate. Thus considerably, he is in for $250,000 of what will shortly be a $1.6 million pot. If Seiver wins, Hellmuth will have the choice to shell out $1.6 million to phone for a rematch in Spherical 6, or the seat will be open up for a different opponent.

Prior to the match back again in Could, a lot of said Seiver is the hardest challenger to day on Large Stakes Duel for the 1989 entire world champion. In full, Hellmuth’s confronted 5 diverse players, all with contrasting styles of play, on the demonstrate, which 1st aired on PokerGO back again in 2020. Hellmuth is an unthinkable 9-1 in 10 complete matches, all of which have been played working with a sit n’ go fashion structure.

On the inaugural Superior Stakes Duel, he disposed of Antonio Esfandiari in 3 consecutive matches, and then did the identical to Daniel Negreanu on Substantial Stakes Duel II. For the duration of the present collection of matches, he defeat Wright in Round 1, misplaced to Dwan in Spherical 2, conquer Dwan in Round 3, and then defeat Seiver in Round 4.

Combined Bag at the 2022 Globe Series of Poker

Two months soon after losing to the “Poker Brat,” Seiver won his fourth bracelet when he took down WSOP Function #3: $2,500 Freezeout No-Restrict Hold’em for $320,059. He also, as pointed out dropped 43 consecutive $1,000 bullets in the gimmicky FLIP & GO event.

As for Hellmuth, his collection is off to a rocky start off thanks to some health and fitness challenges. He skipped the 1st pair of days of the sequence because of to a bout with “traveler’s diarrhea.” Days later he was sidelined again just after tests positive for COVID-19.

Each poker stars will keep on grinding away at a different Entire world Sequence of Poker bracelet. Shortly soon after the collection concludes, it is on like Donkey Kong at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas when these two legends meet up, mano a mano, for a 7-determine pot.

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