High Stakes Duel is an American poker television program that airs on PokerGO and premiered on July 30, 2020.

[1] The original series was announced by PokerGO on July 22, 2020, and would see two players play heads-up No-Limit Hold'em in a poker tournament format to decide a winner.

[6] Round 1 of High Stakes Duel premiered on July 30, 2020, with Phil Hellmuth and Antonio Esfandiari facing off in the inaugural match of this PokerGO original series.

Both players flopped an ace, and Esfandiari's chop outs never fulfilled as he was handed his third consecutive loss to Hellmuth.

Negreanu dominated the match from the start before Hellmuth mounted an epic comeback that saw him as low as 7,000 of the 100,000 chips in play.

[18][3] High Stakes Duel 3 was announced in June 2021 on PokerGO's video podcast No Gamble, No Future.

Dwan would push Hellmuth off a small pair and then make a straight against his bluff to take his biggest lead in the match.

Dwan turned two pair, and when Hellmuth failed to improve on the river, he was dealt his first High Stakes Duel loss.

[29] During the 2022 World Series of Poker, Hellmuth announced via Twitter that he would face Seiver in August in the Round 5 match for $1,600,000.

[30] Like Dwan, Seiver backed out of his match against Hellmuth to leave the door open for a new challenger to step into the ring.

Koon took a big chip lead early in the match and was able to finish the job from there, ending the High Stakes Duel run of Hellmuth and advancing to Round 6.

[6][34] High Stakes Duel 4 was announced in April 2023 with a new format that would see a player only needing to win two consecutive matches to cash out.

The board bricked out and Negreanu earned his first High Stakes Duel victory in his fourth attempt.

The final hand played out with Polk shoving the river with a missed straight draw, and Negreanu called with top pair.

[39] In his post-match interview, Negreanu announced that he was done and would be cashing out his $200,000 to put an end to High Stakes Duel 4.