There have been many poker players who just love to project how great they are and love playing the villain.

Wiktor Malinowski is one of them. He even brags about it by having the nick “Limitless”.

Challenging anyone to heads up battle

Wiktor ‘limitless’ Malinowski made an appearance on Joey Ingram’s Poker Life Podcast to update the poker world on his status in the Run It Once Poker Legends Challenge. He was slated to play but back out on the last minute. The discussion led to Ingram asking if Malinowski was willing to take on anyone in the world in a heads-up poker match, at any stakes of their choosing.

Malinowski’s answer was an emphatic

 “yes, if the stakes were big enough.”

How it started

Malinowski was supposed to be one of the participants last August, the Run It Once Legends Showdown, which was filled with some of the biggest players in the world. Mikael Thuritz, Kevin Rabichow,  Fedor Holz just to name a few.

but he apparently decided against it and did not play, primarily because he felt the €50/€100 action was going to be “too small for him.”

“I was really loving what the field is doing with the challenges, But then with current action I have, I think the stakes are too small for me.”

Enjoying the sideline

Although he backed out, he has never stopped talking about it. Fedor Holz meanwhile was able to gain other players’ respect by having a crushing performance over respected grinder Pauli Ayras.

The match was able to make Holz grab the top seed for the knockout round. Though he’d ultimately be eliminated by Ayras.

it was a stellar performance.

The event was eventually won by Kevin Rabichow. but Limitless expresses his dismay of the result.

Issuing the challenge.

On Ingram’s podcast, he offered to play the eventual winner in a challenge match at higher stakes, and he also singled out Holz.

“I can offer also playing drunk, I can drink a full bottle of wine and I can play Fedor heads up any stakes he wants.

“I’m not gonna back off. If he wants to accept, no problem.”

Rasing the challenge.

He once again issued the challenge. This time raising it even further.

“Hello champ! WP! so are we gonna play some hu? Ill offer you 3bb/100 extra or 1k usd per hour and ill be drunk. for 2tbls 200 400 or 500 1000+.”

Fedor Holz answers.

While Limitless was busy with  Stefan “Stefan11222” Burakov on PokerStars,

So far, things have not gone so well for Malinowski, to put it mildly. Burakov posted a graph of their battle through Feb. 23, and he has put an epic beating on limitless through the first 13,471 hands. Burakov has already won just shy of $384,000, crushing his foe at a rate of 28.5 bb/100.

Finally, in a tweeter video. Fedor Holz accepts the challenge.

“Yo, Wiktor, what’s up?” Holz said in a video posted to Twitter. “I see you’re getting crushed by Stefan in your heads-up challenge. How’s that going? My condolences.

“Before he takes all your money, I want to get back to that offer you made on Joe [Ingram’s] podcast. To play me drunk whenever I want, whatever stakes I want. So, yeah, let’s f****** do it, I challenge you.”

Limitless raising the challenge even further.

And Limitless does it again. he said in his own video response, with what appeared to be two tables of GGPoker pulled up behind him. 

“Hey, Fedor!I am sitting waiting for you every day. You know where to find me. Get your two best students, I can play three of you, same time, two tables each. Any amount of hands you want.

“You only talk. Be careful what you wish for, man. I am here, I am waiting. Any time, just join me. Just message me and we can play.”

The match is set.

GG Poker launches a video announcing the match it set. GGPoker revealed details on the upcoming high-stakes heads-up series to be played between Fedor Holz and Wiktor ‘Limitless’ Malinowski.

The four-session series is the first match of the new GG Face-Off Challenge, which pits the world’s top poker players against each other, with lots of cash and professional pride at stake.

The match will begin on March 5 at 17:45 UTC, with remaining sessions on March 8, March 10 and March 12. The two poker superstars will play at $100/$200 No Limit Hold’em tables, sitting with 100 big blind stacks.

All of the action will be streamed exclusively at GGPoker.TV on a 30 minute delay.