19 Sep
Doug Polk may have more to worry about than his ‘Grudge match for Rollz’ against Daniel Negreanu – with ACR boss Phil Nagy this week challenging him to an ‘old guy poker’ heads-up match!
Polk has been taking on all-comers at a range of stakes since his challenge was accepted by longtime arch-rival Negreanu, but so far it has been far from the salad days when he crushed souls for $millions.
Polk has been surprised at the growth of the highstakes games since his own heyday, stating in another tweet:
‘Im pretty amazed at the amount of high stakes happening in online poker these days.’
The former undisputed number one online highstakes HUNL player on the planet added:
‘I look around at the ecosystem and there is more high stakes HUNL happening today than in 2014. Pretty wild.’
Last week saw Polk admit:
‘Not going to sugarcoat this, I have beaten almost none of the opponents I have played since I got back into playing HU.
It has basically been a 30-35 buyin beatdown by people playing all kinds of styles including the following:
– Opening under 50% of small blinds
– Limping the button
– Minraising the Button
– Misclicking every 30 hands
– 4 Betting me 20%
– Streaming their session on Twitch
– Randomly Leading all over the place
– 1 Tabling on a laptop
– Cant figure out how to sit the table’
While a match between Polk and Negreanu is obviously a huge draw, there would be less public interest in Nagy-Polk, but there is an alternative match-up being mooted for the ACR endboss.
We covered the story about Jonathan Little getting himself banned from ACR last week and of course a Nagy-Little grudge match just isn’t going to happen.
For Polk, a quick toppling of Nagy however might be just the tonic he needs before meeting fellow ‘old-timer’ Negreanu!
