February 14, 2020 Poker News, Featured Articles Petr Černý

Luke Schwartz disses Phil Galfond and publishes his thoughts on the Galfond Challenge

Luke Schwartz laid into Phil Galfond on Twitter after the RunItOnce boss announced he was taking a step back from his PLO Challenge match with VeniVidi1993.

The Londoner described Galfond as a “washed up nice guy” who “can’t beat the top guys in PLO anymore.”

Schwartz’s attack appeared just a little too late for our update that revealed Galfond was considering “throwing in the towel” as his losses against the anonymous online crusher closed in on €1million.

However, the Twitter thrashing is notable because Schwartz has been mooted as a possible opponent in a future Galfond Challenge match.

With that in mind, the brutal tweet can be considered so much hype from Schwartz. He stated that Galfond was getting “his ass handed to him every session by someone who is 5 years and 14 advanced solvers better than him”.

Phil Galfond poker

Galfond has so far lost €900,240 over just 9927 hands at €100/€200 PLO and will have to pay VeniVidi1993 €3,000 per day while he takes a break to consider whether he can continue or not.

Quitting the match would cost him another €200k in a sidebet, bringing total losses to over €1.1million in only the first of at least six matches.

Schwartz didn’t ease up on Galfond in his initial tweet, calling Phil “a fuking spent force” who has “either got too much ego or too stupid to quit”.

Luke Schwartz poker

He landed the blow in a tirade against Galfond’s “fanboys”. Schwartz described them as “Basement boys living in the past of Full Tilt days…Phil was good then but the game has passed him and you really shouldn’t care.”

Galfond in his prime was one of the biggest winners online. He racked up $6,599,839 under his nickname ‘OMGClayAiken’ on Full Tilt and$1,450,287 as ‘MrSweets28’ on PokerStars, according to HighStakesDB.com.

Times have moved on, however. The huge losses these past few weeks may be a case of Galfond not putting in the work over recent years. However, it might be a run-bad of variance or a bit of everything – including VV1993 being a very strong player.

It didn’t prevent Phil from replying to Schwartz in his usual charming way. A stark contrast to the loud-mouthed Londoner’s approach…

…and while Schwartz admitted to a certain amount of hype in his Twitter tongue-lashing, rather than being a serious attack on Phil himself…

…he quickly moved on to hack and slash at anyone who dared defend Galfond, with highstakes reg Rui Cao bearing the brunt of it…

Rui Cao poker

…although he was himself then put down by an old foe, in a way that few would take kindly to…

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