Is Doug Polk Leaving Las Vegas?

High Stakes Feud contestant Doug Polk hinted Monday that he will likely relocate from Las Vegas to another U.S. city in upcoming months.

The announcement came just before the three-time WSOP bracelet winner played the “most wild, sick, and crazy Day 29 session” — in which Polk extended his grudge match lead over GGPoker ambassador Daniel Negreanu to just over $700,000.

Probably going to move from Vegas in the next few months to live somewhere more reasonable long term.

Shill me some places to live. US only. No state income tax/very low state income tax only.

— Doug "Truck Driver" Polk (@DougPolkVids) January 18, 2021

The 2015 Brains vs. AI winner has already received hundreds of replies from poker players and fans by Monday evening local time.

Former PokerStars Director of Communications Michael Josem offered a quick reply that Texas or Florida would meet Doug’s criteria.

Mainly yeah. Not totally against Washington though. Also not sure which states might have very low state income tax.

— Doug "Truck Driver" Polk (@DougPolkVids) January 18, 2021

Doug has also clarified that — if he decides to make the move — a city somewhere else in Nevada would not be in the cards.

WA, TX, FL are the only ones id consider on that list

— Doug "Truck Driver" Polk (@DougPolkVids) January 18, 2021

The states of Tennessee, Alaska, New Hampshire, Indiana, Wyoming, and South Dakota are also off the list.

Could Polk’s Anticipated Move Impact the #PokerVerse Power Center?

A decision to vacate Polk Palace would be unlikely to result in any significant “shake-up” in the Las Vegas poker entertainment realm.

Dozens of high profile televised poker personalities remain in Nevada, while coordination of outreach associated with online poker “events” and “marketing” has transitioned into community-oriented dispatch/distribution of relevant content — assisted by open competition between PokerStars and GGPoker.

Great to see @PokerStars @GGPoker step up their marketing efforts across all platforms over the past few months

Should be fun to see what type of product, event, and marketing ideas they bring to the table in 2021

They both want to be the #1 poker site in the world

— Joey Ingram #PASSION ⛰ (@Joeingram1) January 12, 2021

Additionally, Las Vegas card rooms (at least the ones that have re-opened or will at some point in the future) are in a position in which they depend far more on government permissions than customers in order to operate.

However, the Upswing Poker co-founder’s potential relocation to Texas or Florida could have a noticeable impact on the promotion of land-based poker games in either of those regions — and possibly aid in a renewed push for legalization of online poker in one of those states.

With that said, there is no indication at this time regarding whether or how Doug Polk would engage with those communities upon arrival.

The state of Washington is notoriously unfriendly to online poker players and sports bettors.

Polk and Negreanu Get High Marks from Phil Galfond

Despite pre-match concerns that the duo would be unable to come to terms, Doug and Daniel have played more than 17,000 hands since their televised High Stakes Feud kickoff session at the PokerGO Studio on November 4th.

Negreanu and Polk have provided informative and entertaining insight for poker fans worldwide since the grudge match began… even impressing Run It Once Poker executive and grudge match savior Phil Galfond.

Besides being very entertaining, this is a great illustration of why high stakes heads-up battles will continue to happen.

I’d bet that every one of my challenge opponents would disagree with me about how lucky we each were.

…maybe not quite as vehemently as these two 🙂 https://t.co/HvmNXxHeM6

— Phil Galfond (@PhilGalfond) January 19, 2021

The High Stakes Feud match resumes Wednesday, January 20th, at 2:30pm Pacific Time on WSOP Nevada.

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