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Sulsky, Polk Kick off FTP Challenge
Posted by: James Carter. - Tue, 2013-09-17 06:46
Even as the durrrr challenge continues to not make any headlines and to not see any action at all, two other players have kicked off a similar-format challenge at
Full Tilt Poker, looking to generate some headlines of their own and to pick up a huge chunk of cash in the process. The two players are Ben Sulsky and Doug Polk, who have agreed to play a set number of high stakes poker hands, at the end of which, the loser will pay the winner $100k. On top of this side-bet, the winner will of course keep all the money he manages to squeeze out of the action too. The winner will be the player to show a profit at the end of 15,000 hands of $100/$200
NL Holdem.
The additional rules of the challenge stipulate that each challenge session will come to a halt as soon as one of the participants manages to build a stack of 250 BBs.
Polk said that he was really looking forward to the challenge because he found it difficult to get consistent action at the said stakes. He was also excited about the challenge format, which he said he hadn’t ever tried before.
The two of them kicked off their challenge on Sunday, and they really did seem extremely serious about it, playing for more than 8 hours. In the end, the one who got the better of his opponent to the tune of about $227k, was Polk. He took down no fewer than four pots which were more than $50k big and those pots seem to have made quite a bit of difference, considering that Sulsky only managed one such whooper. The biggest pot of the session ended up on Polk’s side of the virtual table too.
Sign up to Full Tilt Poker and watch in real time how the two high stakes players exchange $50k+ pots.
