With the first landmark - the 12,500-hand halfway mark that gives the trailing player the option to concede - just a few thousand hands away, Polk has built a lead of $959,560. The online heads-up specialist once known as arguably the world's finest in the format looks much the part.
What's followed has been mostly session after session of Polk building stack after stack, accumulating nearly $1 million in winnings. Less than a buy-in separated the two at that point. Negreanu had dominated Polk in the opening 200 hands played live in Las Vegas, and he'd followed up with competitive results across the first nine sessions.
As the $200/$400 heads-up no-limit hold'em match between Doug Polk and Daniel Negreanu got rolling, the latter looked every bit the feisty underdog of his big-screen hero Rocky.
