Sam Greenwood Challenges Daniel Negreanu to High-Stakes Heads-Up PLO

Sam Greenwood has challenged Daniel Negreanu to a heads-up PLO battle after the poker legend mocked his play in a Triton event.

Negreanu tweeted about an PLO series from March and was skimming through some televised hands from Triton.

He wrote that he hoped they would be playing as bad as what he observed, picking out a hand in particular that Sam Greenwood played.

PLO series starts today with fun schedule

Watched some Triton PLO and can only hope they play like that this week 😂

Real hand: saw a pro early in the 6 max fold KQJ9 in the cut off after two limps

He did make a face though like it was an agonizing lay down

😂

— Daniel Negreanu (@RealKidPoker) March 20, 2024

It might have taken three weeks for Greenwood to see the tweet from his fellow Canadian but he was clearly a bit wound up at the slight.

After all, it’s not common to see the game’s very best players firing shade at one another over how they played a particular hand.

Greenwood fired back that he has probably played approximately 5,000 hands of PLO in his life, admitting that he isn’t a great player.

He said that he plays MTTs because they’re fun and the format plays to his strengths, unlike PLO.

However, given his obvious annoyance, he offered to not only play PLO with Daniel Negreanu but also in heads-up format!

I’ve played ~5000 hands of PLO since they cancelled Supernova Elite. I’m not a great player and am mostly playing tournaments because they’re fun and play to my strengths, but for you I’ll make an exception and play HU. https://t.co/mqHwm73lbHpic.twitter.com/cXsgI5S71K

— Sam Greenwood (@SamGreenwoodRIO) April 11, 2024

Could we really see this happen? We hope so.

Remember when Doug Polk and Negreanu were at each other’s throats and the Upswing Poker founder goaded his nemesis into accepting a grudge match in his favoured format.

If enough poker fans get into the thread and pump up the situation we might get what we want.

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