Fresh off winning his third Galfond Challenge in a row, Phil Galfond has announced he wants a new opponent.
Unable to play on his own site no doubt because of travel restrictions right now, the challenge is open to anyone who can get to New Jersey or Nevada to play on WSOP.com (the same site that Polk vs Negreanu is taking place on).
He keeps retweeting the open challenge, but so far, no takers. When the world opens up again he is set to take on Bill Perkins, Dan Cates, Brandon Adams and Luke Schwartz if terms can be finalised.
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— Phil Galfond (@PhilGalfond) January 31, 2021
It won’t be Polk
Poker fans hoping for a ‘battle of the champions’ match between Galfond and (almost certainly) Doug Polk will be very disappointed.
Polk has confirmed on Twitter that despite beating Negreanu for a large sum so far in their challenge, he won’t be doing a rematch or taking on any other challenges.
He wants to move away from Nevada which would make online poker difficult, thinks Negreanu has improved too much and, as he has stated several times, he does not enjoy poker anymore.
I am not going to play a rematch. There has been a lot of talk about this, its simply not going to happen.
Im way too burned out from all of the study/prep/play and dont enjoy the game. I also want to have some flexibility to not have to be in Nevada for the next 4-5 months.
— Doug Polk (@DougPolkVids) January 30, 2021
If a scenario arose where Daniel wanted to play someone else, I would potentially be interested in heading the coaching the opposing player. There are some people I dont think it would work though (Imagine trying to explain to Hellmuth he was wrong in a hand. Good luck with that)
— Doug Polk (@DougPolkVids) January 30, 2021
Additionally Im not going to take on other challengers. As tempting as it is to have to lay 20 million vs Dan Bilzerian or pay Bill 22 bb/100 (Great offers guys), I’m not interested in playing either of them. I dont think id play either of them at even money much less pay vig
— Doug Polk (@DougPolkVids) January 30, 2021
One obvious next opponent could be Daniel Negreanu who is both in Vegas and seemingly has enjoyed his heads-up challenge more than Polk despite being the six-figure loser in it. We will have to wait to see on that one but no doubt it would be popular with the railbirds.
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