Fernando “JNandez” Habegger, player and poker coach, has pulled out of a scheduled heads up match against high stakes poker pro and Run It Once Poker founder Phil Galfond.
Details on the challenge were posted by Galfond earlier this month.
Since people are asking, here are the rough terms for my #GalfondChallenge against VeniVidi1993.
They aren’t extre… https://t.co/CfMVwT753j— Phil Galfond (@PhilGalfond) December 15, 2019
The PLO Mastermind is a Pot Limit Omaha strategy membership with 700+ videos and 350+ quizzes, a PLO Trainer software and weekly Q&A sessions.
- — JNandez (@JNandezPoker) December 17, 2019. As we reported less than a week ago, JNandez, aka Fernando Habegger, had agreed to take on the Run It Once founder over 50,000 hands, playing $100/$200 and getting 5-1 odds on a side-bet of 10 buy-ins. Props to the bravest non-@RunItOnce coach out there! Let’s give them a good show, @JNandezPoker.
- 13.2k Followers, 14 Following, 523 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Pot Limit Omaha Coach (@jnandezpoker).
Now that JNandez has pulled out, there will be no poker coaches taking part in the challenge.
Unfortunately, we’re back to zero coaches competing in the #GalfondChallenge. Perhaps this is a good time to mentio… https://t.co/LWfPIulpzq— Phil Galfond (@PhilGalfond) December 18, 2019
JNandez posted his rationale for pulling out of the challenge on Twitter.
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Update on the @PhilGalfond HU Challenge https://t.co/F2pBenfsq9— JNandez (@JNandezPoker) December 17, 2019
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...despite posting this just a few hours before.
Going live on Twitch for some POT LIMIT OMAHA CASH + announcing the winner of this weeks sickest hand promo and dra… https://t.co/Dx017lmESU— JNandez (@JNandezPoker) December 17, 2019
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lol https://t.co/HIvjuzxKO6— Doug Polk (@DougPolkPoker) December 18, 2019
Doug Polk wasted no time wading in with his thoughts (I am expecting a YouTube video anytime now). For those of you who missed it, Polk and JNandez worked together on Polk’s Upswing Poker training site, and then acrimoniously parted ways in July of last year.
Published a video about my relationship with Doug Polk, Joey Ingram and Upswing Poker https://t.co/8EalzvRdcN . A 2… https://t.co/RQe39v1Hic— JNandez (@JNandezPoker) July 22, 2018
Check out Polk’s response to JNandez leaving Upswing below.