The battle to win the latest Phil Galfond #GalfondChallenge is an extremely tense one.

Taking on Chance Kornuth, Galfond got off to a fair start last week after he took an early lead despite some valiant play from his opponent.

After a heavy latest session, the pair have now played 6,600 hands, almost 19% of the total hands to be played, and while Chance Kornuth is still very much in with a chance of winning, he’ll now have to recover from a deficit of €280,000 to do so after a mauling at the hands of Galfond.

Day 5 was a dramatic day and one that Galfond was more than happy to share: