Daniel Negreanu battled back from near defeat again at the hands of Viktor "Isildur1" Blom to claw out a victory in the rematch of last week's SuperStar Showdown.Last week, Negreanu lost his entire $150,000 challenge bankroll in record time and this week started out no different. Around half way through the match, Isildur1 was up around $130,000. It was then that the tide started to turn and Negreanu fought back steadily. Negreanu claimed that he had many broken items littered around his office during the frustrating first half of the match.
Isildur1: gg, nice comeback!
KidPoker: I won? wow sick! gg man thanks
KidPoker: I broke so much stuff in this room the first half
KidPoker: my assistant has lots of cleaning to do lol jkjk
Negreanu didn't take the lead back until there were only 350 hands left in the match. In the end, Negreanu dug out a $26,5000 win and claimed that in adjusted EV that he actually would have won $55k.
After the match, he was quick to thanks those that helped him prepare for the rematch during the week. “ReynoldsXO @nutsinho & Tom Marchese for coming by the house this week and going over last weeks match. VERY helpful.”
This runs Blom's record to 4.5-1.5, having won the last contest versus an online qualifier by the slimmest possible margin ($10), after all the previous matches had much larger margins of victory or loss. Blom defeated Eugene Katchalov, Daniel “jungleman12” Cates, and Tony G. while losing his first match to Isaac "philivey2694" Haxton.
Blom is up over $275k in profits in his first five matches. It is interesting that while Blom has consistently won and profited in the SuperStar Showdown's, he is losing in regular cash game play since he became a PokerStars Team Pro.
Blom's next opponent will be Scott "urindanger2" Palmer, who will follow with a similar two week split 2500 each week format.
