Doug Polk is “a Troll” Just in it For Drama and “Cold Hard Cash” Says Daniel Negreanu

The gloves were well and truly off last night as the long-running feud between Daniel ‘KidPoker’ Negreanu and Doug Polk reached new heights – or depths – with the Canadian accusing his equally famous rival of being “a troll and actively looking to create drama, attacks, views, to turn that into cold hard cash.”

Polk, for his part, responded by defending his highly-popular YouTube vlogs, his poker channel having over 175,000 subscribers – and his crypto channel recently beating that number – by claiming Negreanu’s attack is a deflection from the PokerStars man’s own “unethical” behaviour.

Joe ‘Chicago Joey’ Ingram was the main ‘go-between’ for Negreanu’s insult-laden attack, Ingram up for the same video blogger of the year award, a category which Polk and Negreanu (and Andrew Neeme) are also nominated in…

Ingram, a close friend of Polk and a man who has recently taken a much more aggressive role in the public outing and discussion of various problems in the poker world, wasn’t letting Negreanu have things all his own way with his vitriolic Twitter verbals…

…while Polk jumped back to his ‘Polker News’ account to keep things fresh…

The war of words between the pair has covered many different arguments over the past few years, just last week Polk describing Negreanu as “an embarrassment to the game”, as well as “a little bitch” during a YouTube podcast with Joe ‘Chicago Joey’ Ingram.

Negreanu’s defence of ‘increased rake’ on his sponsor’s site PokerStars has been the main bone of contention – the Canadian and his supporters absolutely convinced he has had his words taken out of context…

… while Polk and many others are equally adamant that Negreanu is part of the problem rather than the solution…

While the arguments raged, one of the best vloggers out there - and a man who doesn’t seem to have anyone on his back to argue with - Andrew Neeme was quietly named the Vlogger of the Year and therein lies a lesson perhaps.