Er waren al een flink aantal geruchten, maar Daniel Negreanu heeft het nu ook zelf bevestigd: De Canadees is aan het oefenen voor de SuperStar Showdown tegen Viktor Isildur1 Blom.
"Hardly a secret, I'm a fan of Viktor "Isildur1" Blom and watching him play the SuperStar Showdown on PokerStars on Sundays has inspired me to see if I can get to the point where I feel like I could be a worthy challenger for him.
As many of you know, I didn't grow up playing online poker and I've always been adverse to multi-tabling. Well, since the Isildur1 showdown is a 4-table match, the only way to play him would be to hit the grind stone and see if I'm even capable of keeping up."
Vandaar dat Negreanu momenteel aan het spelen is aan de NL1000-tafels om te kijken of hij de 2500 handen in één sessie kan volbrengen. Daarom speelde hij de afgelopen tijd met regelmaat heads-up matches tegen diverse tegenstanders.
The goal has been to play 2500 hands straight (the length of the Sh"owdown) and see how well I could adjust to the speed of the game. In my first attempt, I played 1038 hands vs knecht_poker before he chose to quit. I couldn't have made it much longer anyway, my brain was complete mush. Since then my stamina is improving as is my speed. I finally reached the 2500 hand mark against Nanonoko in a little over 4 hours. I didn't even care about the result, I was proud of the fact that I hung in there.
Mind you, I did time out against him a few times. He is lightning fast, I've never seen anything like it before. He is a SuperNovaElite who comfortably plays 20 tables, so while 4 tables is about all I can handle, it was a walk in the park for him. Dude was even having conversations with the rail!"
Uiteindelijk bekend Negreanu al snel 7 buy-ins down te hebben gestaan, maar na de 2500 handen was dat verlies beperkt tot slechts 1 buy-in, wat Negreanu tot tevredenheid stelde.
Nu KidPoker dankzij Nanonoko de snelheid te pakken heeft is zijn volgende stap om het spel van meer agressieve spelers onder controle te krijgen:
"In watching Isildur1 play, more practice against aggressive players is what the doctor ordered. I plan on playing against various opponents in the coming week. I'm hoping that Justin Bonomo will be available tomorrow night, and then possibly play against my buddy, and fellow Team PokerStars Pro, Lex Veldhuis."
We zijn benieuwd wanneer we deze spectaculaire oefenpartijen kunnen gaan volgen. Feit is wel dat Negreanu nog wel even denkt nodig te hebben voordat hij het tegen de Zweed kan gaan opnemen:
"This is just the early stages of my training for a match with Isildur1, so don't expect any announcements anytime soon. I'm taking that decision very seriously, and it has absolutely nothing to do with money. None of this does. This challenge gets my juices flowing and I'm dedicated to the journey/process of building my way up there. I want to put in somewhere around 20,000 hands at the $5-$10 level, then make the jump to the $25-$50 HU specialists if all goes well. I don't expect this to be easy, and I don't expect to win every time I play. I do expect to get better... fast."
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