Galfond Heavily Favored To Beat ActionFreak, Bill Perkins, Chance Kornuth and More
Published on May 9th, 2020 10:15 am EST
After all, "VeniVidi" was crushing Galfond at the time, and Galfond seemingly couldn't win a hand to save his life.
Things have changed dramatically since that time, however, and Galfond is now heavily favored to win all of his remaining "Galfond Challenge" battles.
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Let's take a look at the current odds for Galfond's ongoing and future matches, courtesy of PokerShares.com:
ActionFreak, 2.80
Phil Galfond, 1.47
*note: Galfond is currently up roughly €250,000 in this match after about 4,000 hands (15,000 hands will be played in the Challenge).
Bill Perkins, 12.00
Phil Galfond, 1.03
*note: Galfond is up about $90,000 in this Challenge after 862 hands. The Challenge will be declared over when either player suffers a $400,000 loss or 50,000 hands are played, whichever comes first
Chance Kornuth, 5.25
Phil Galfond, 1.17
Brandon Adams, 2.48
Phil Galfond, 1.57
Source: PokerShares.com
Note: Galfond and "Jungleman" are going to be having a full Challenge at a later date (Galfond won a mini Challenge between the two earlier this week), though you'd have to assume that Galfond will be a favorite to win that match as well.
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In short, PokerShares is saying that Perkins essentially has no chance of beating Galfond, while ActionFreak, Kornuth and Adams are sizeable underdogs.
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