Phil Galfond lays down the gauntlet
The PLO legend is blissful to take anybody on, but it surely actually will not be Doug Polk.
Contemporary off successful his third Galfond Problem in a row, Phil Galfond has introduced he needs a brand new opponent.
Unable to play on his personal website little doubt due to journey restrictions proper now, the problem is open to anybody who can get to New Jersey or Nevada to play on WSOP.com (the identical website that Polk vs Negreanu is happening on).
He retains retweeting the open problem, however up to now, no takers. When the world opens up once more he’s set to tackle Invoice Perkins, Dan Cates, Brandon Adams and Luke Schwartz if phrases could be finalised.
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— Phil Galfond (@PhilGalfond) January 31, 2021
It will not be Polk
Poker followers hoping for a ‘battle of the champions’ match between Galfond and (virtually actually) Doug Polk will probably be very dissatisfied.
Polk has confirmed on Twitter that regardless of beating Negreanu for a big sum up to now of their problem, he will not be doing a rematch or taking over another challenges.
He needs to maneuver away from Nevada which might make on-line poker tough, thinks Negreanu has improved an excessive amount of and, as he has acknowledged a number of instances, he doesn’t get pleasure from poker anymore.
I’m not going to play a rematch. There was numerous speak about this, its merely not going to occur.
Im manner too burned out from the entire research/prep/play and dont benefit from the sport. I additionally need to have some flexibility to not should be in Nevada for the following 4-5 months.
— Doug Polk (@DougPolkVids) January 30, 2021
If a situation arose the place Daniel wished to play another person, I might probably be fascinated about heading the teaching the opposing participant. There are some individuals I dont assume it might work although (Think about attempting to elucidate to Hellmuth he was unsuitable in a hand. Good luck with that)
— Doug Polk (@DougPolkVids) January 30, 2021
Moreover Im not going to tackle different challengers. As tempting as it’s to have to put 20 million vs Dan Bilzerian or pay Invoice 22 bb/100 (Nice presents guys), I am not fascinated about taking part in both of them. I dont assume id play both of them at even cash a lot much less pay vig
— Doug Polk (@DougPolkVids) January 30, 2021
One apparent subsequent opponent may very well be Daniel Negreanu who’s each in Vegas and seemingly has loved his heads-up problem greater than Polk regardless of being the six-figure loser in it. We should wait to see on that one however little doubt it might be widespread with the railbirds.
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