{"id":779591,"date":"2021-01-30T12:21:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T10:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pokeriomokykla.com\/galfond-challenge-phils-victory-over-chance-kornuth"},"modified":"2025-04-28T23:16:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T21:16:32","slug":"galfond-challenge-phils-victory-over-chance-kornuth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pokeriomokykla.com\/en\/alfond-challenge-phil-pergale-before-chance-kornuth","title":{"rendered":"Galfond Challenge: Phil&#8217;s victory over Chance Kornuth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pokeriomokykla.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Phil-Galfond-Chance-Kornuth.jpg\" class=\"media-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-765194\" src=\"https:\/\/pokeriomokykla.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Phil-Galfond-Chance-Kornuth.jpg\" alt=\"phil galfond chance kornuth challenge\" width=\"1000\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pokeriomokykla.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Phil-Galfond-Chance-Kornuth.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pokeriomokykla.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Phil-Galfond-Chance-Kornuth-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pokeriomokykla.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Phil-Galfond-Chance-Kornuth-768px-422px.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pokeriomokykla.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Phil-Galfond-Chance-Kornuth-218px-120px.jpg 218w, https:\/\/pokeriomokykla.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Phil-Galfond-Chance-Kornuth-700px-385px.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>This challenge lasted almost 5 months, but only <strong>at the beginning of 2021 did the scales drastically tip in Phil's favor.<\/strong> In January 2021, a total of seven sessions were played, and Chance Kornuth managed to win only one of them.<a href=\"https:\/\/pokeriomokykla.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/01\/galfond-vs-kornuth.png\" class=\"media-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-765195\" src=\"https:\/\/pokeriomokykla.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/01\/galfond-vs-kornuth.png\" alt=\"galfond vs kornuth stats\" width=\"1954\" height=\"736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pokeriomokykla.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/01\/galfond-vs-kornuth.png 1954w, https:\/\/pokeriomokykla.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/01\/galfond-vs-kornuth-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/pokeriomokykla.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/01\/galfond-vs-kornuth-768px-289px.png 768w, https:\/\/pokeriomokykla.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/01\/galfond-vs-kornuth-1536px-579px.png 1536w, https:\/\/pokeriomokykla.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/01\/galfond-vs-kornuth-319px-120px.png 319w, https:\/\/pokeriomokykla.com\/app\/uploads\/2021\/01\/galfond-vs-kornuth-700px-264px.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1954px) 100vw, 1954px\" \/><\/a> On January 23, <strong>Chance Kornuth announced his defeat on his Twitter account.<\/strong> A total of 25,400 hands were played, and <strong>Phil Galfond won $726,500 overall.<\/strong> You can see the moments from the last session and the winner's interview in the video below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Phil Wins! Joins Chance for Closing Interview! | Galfond Challenge Final Session Highlights!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7xnUxkQ4AG8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Galfond remains undefeated in his challenge.<\/strong> He has already won against VeniVidi1993, ActionFreak, and his match against Bill Perkins is unlikely to continue. Phil noted that Chance was the toughest opponent so far and made him sweat a lot, revealing some of his gameplay mistakes. <strong>Galfond is becoming an increasingly respected figure in the poker community.<\/strong> He was even appointed as a judge in the discussion about the Negreanu vs Polk challenge.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;ve decided to concede the challenge . Congrats to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhilGalfond?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@PhilGalfond<\/a> on another <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GalfondChallenge?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#GalfondChallenge<\/a> Victory. It was an incredibly fun battle even though I lost. Going to take a few days w\/ friends and family, and share more about my experience in the weeks to come on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChipLDR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ChipLDR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chance Kornuth (@ChancesCards) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChancesCards\/status\/1353084125624770560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It is worth mentioning that although Galfond won, <strong>poker players greatly admired Kornuth's courage to announce his defeat publicly<\/strong> and talk openly about it.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>The best online poker rooms:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<div class='widget-card placeholder--card'\n     data-source-gql='https:\/\/scg-new-live.stellate.sh\/'\n     data-source-widgetjs='https:\/\/widget.affprojects.com\/widget.js'\n     data-shortcode='widget-card'\n     data-shortcode-text='[top-poker-rooms-for-post]'\n     data-props='{\n\"show_more_button\":true,\n\"show_more_button_text\":\"Show More Bookmakers\",\n\"show_more_text\":false,\n\"show_less_text\":false,\n\"vpn_notification\":false,\n\"show_more_items_amount\":null,\n\"scrollable\":\"always\",\n\"violet_bonus_text\":true,\n\"ab_testing_show_more_button_rework\":true\n}'\n     data-queries='{\n\"type\":\"TOP-Poker\",\n\"limit\":10,\n\"mobile_limit\":10,\n\"show_new\":1,\n\"button_text_type\":\"TOP\",\n\"language\":\"en\",\n\"project\":\"PM\",\n\"page\":1\n}'\n     ><\/div>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This challenge lasted almost 5 months, but only at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7774,"featured_media":765194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1655,1657,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-poker-news","category-uncategorized-lt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pokeriomokykla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pokeriomokykla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pokeriomokykla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pokeriomokykla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7774"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pokeriomokykla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pokeriomokykla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099216,"href":"https:\/\/pokeriomokykla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779591\/revisions\/1099216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pokeriomokykla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pokeriomokykla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pokeriomokykla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pokeriomokykla.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}