Doug Polk Poker
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13:18
SHOCKING POKER SCANDAL: The $1,000,000 Lie
Added 55 Views / 0 LikesImagine investing in a trusted friend. This guy is crushing the poker tournament circuit, hitting six-figure scores, and now is playing in some of the juciest cash games in Florida. But suddenly he can't beat the games, and you're on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses. This is exactly what happened to Jonathan Jaffe and Kane Kalas, among many others, who placed their faith in Ian O'Hara.
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1:32:03
Post Grudge Match Interview with Cate Hall
Added 55 Views / 0 LikesCate Hall joins the channel today, to discuss her recent HU grudge match with Mike Dentale on Poker Night in America.
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15:20
Doug Gets To Have The Nuts ($10k WCOOP Run, Part 2)
Added 54 Views / 0 LikesThe big run continues, as apparently the game is no longer standard Texas Hold'Em, but rather an impromptu match of "Doug Gets To Have The Nuts". The deck is smacking him in the face, though he manages to also chip up with some sneaky bluffs as well. Doug finishes the day as the chip leader by a massive margin. This puts him in a fantastic position to finally get even on the WCOOP trip, after big losses in the $100k, high stakes 6-max, and various whi
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16:43
I LOST A $460,000 POT TO A RANDOMLY PICKED NUMBER
Added 54 Views / 0 LikesIn this high stakes poker heads up challenge against Bill Perkins, this was the biggest pot of the day. In fact, it is now the biggest pot in the history of The Lodge live stream. I don't want to talk about this anymore. Just watch the video.
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07:10
$1.7 Million Downswing OVER! State of the Stream, Upcoming Plans, and WCOOP Recap
Added 53 Views / 0 LikesHere's another quick blog to let you all know what I'm up to and about my plans for the near future. Going to Vancouver to stream the WCOOP was a decision that payed off big time, finally getting me back to even from a very long downswing of nearly 2 million dollars. I'm also excited to spend October creating lots of content for YouTube and doing some traveling. I have actually surprised myself with how much I enjoy making YouTube videos, not to menti
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08:23
Olivier Busquet Is DEVASTATED By Viffer's Slow River Decision
Added 53 Views / 0 LikesOlivier Busquet is known for heads up hypers and octagon brawls. Today, he finds himself in a much different sort of fight. With six-figures of cash in the pot, Viffer makes a series of baffling decisions. The knife slowly twists on the river, as Olivier sweats it out with trips. What on Earth is Viffer doing? Has Olivier handled this correctly? As always, Doug breaks down each street of action. Poker Hands is the show where Doug analyzes live poker h
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17:27
Top 5 Pots Of My Poker Career (Featuring Isildur1)
Added 52 Views / 0 LikesDoug takes a stroll down memory lane and reviews the five largest pots he's ever played. A few of them are against Viktor "Isildur" Blom, an opponent with whom he had some extensive blood matches. Also featured are the mysterious malACEsia and Denoking/wilhasha. Some of these hands are standard, some of them are off the wall, and all of them have enormous six-figure pots. These were all played on Full Tilt Poker, the premier destination for high stake
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13:48
Vanessa Selbst's REAL Top 5 Poker Moments
Added 52 Views / 0 LikesDoug falls into the weird section of YouTube again, searching for some amusing antics in poker hands from famous pros like Phil Hellmuth. However, when he stumbles upon a top 5 list of Vanessa Selbst hands, he is dissatisfied with the results, and elects to make his own. Also, be sure to check out Poker Hands, a similar show where Doug breaks down famous hands from such shows as High Stakes Poker, Poker After Dark, the WSOP, the WPT (World Poker Tour)
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2:08:00
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CAN DOUG POLK EVER BEAT DANIEL NEGREANU?! [$200/$400 Grudge Match]
Added 52 Views / 0 LikesThe 9th session of $200/$400 action between Doug Polk and Daniel Negreanu. Daniel is taking a ~$180k lead into today's match. Stay updated on the challenge here: https://upswingpoker.com/hu4grudge/
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11:39
POKER FUGITIVE Faces $200,000 Bet Against Top Set
Added 52 Views / 0 LikesAfter breaking the news yesterday that Ryusuke Daifuku has vanished from the poker scene and allegedly owes millions of dollars to various people, we discovered something interesting: He was one of the players at the infamous Robbi Jade Lew and Garrett Adelstein stream on Hustler Casino Live! Today we're taking a look at one of the biggest hands from that session. Watch more Hustler Casino Live: https://www.youtube.com/@HustlerCasinoLive
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04:07
No Punking Going On Here
Added 52 Views / 0 LikesSometimes you have to look a man in the eye and see if they're punking you. Ryan is less than impressed. Watch Doug Polk play live on the Upswing Poker Twitch stream: https://www.twitch.tv/upswingpoker
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30:32
One Card Hold'em?! - Silly Game Challenge
Added 51 Views / 0 LikesDoug invents a new game, One Card Texas Hold'em. It's actually just normal NLHE, with a piece of paper taped to the monitor to cover one of the cards. The only rule is that Doug can not look at his 2nd card until the river. For this test drive, it will be played at $200NL. Many interesting complications arise from only seeing one hole card. Extra emphasis is placed on rank, with Aces and Kings soaring in value. Many pocket pairs will be folded. Someti
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12:28
Gus Hansen Had WHAT?! Disguised Hand Builds A Massive Pot
Added 51 Views / 0 LikesGus Hansen is legendary for playing the highest stakes online, giving tons of action, and playing extremely loose and aggressive. He lives up to that reputation in the live arena as well. In this hand, he makes a very loose call out of the big blind and puts Andreas Hoivold to the test. Meanwhile, Daniel Negreanu, Tom Dwan, and Eli Elezra get caught in the crossfire. How did everyone play? Who will win this pot of nearly $200,000? As always on Poker H
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15:42
Free Money, Clickbait, And Relentless Memes (YouTube Mailbag)
Added 51 Views / 0 LikesIt's time for another mailbag sesh, as the channel now receives hundreds of comments every day. It's not possible to respond to everyone, but effort is made to read most of the feedback and interact with the community as much as possible. Even if they troll a lot! Check out Doug's new (non-poker) YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4sS8q8E5ayyghbhiPon4uw FOLLOW DOUG: Snapchat • http://snapchat.com/add/WCGRider Twitter • https://twitter.
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10:41
SHOCKING POKER SCANDAL: The $15,000,000 Ghost
Added 51 Views / 0 LikesThis case is unbelievable. Ryusuke was one of the friendliest players on Hustler Casino Live. Fans loved to watch him play poker and his fellow players always enjoyed his company. He was even one of the biggest winners on the show. But suddenly, in October of 2022, everything changed. Owing hundreds of thousands of dollars in LA, and allegedly millions abroad, he vanished without a trace.
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17:48
INCREDIBLE COMEBACK! $2,200,000 Poker Hand At Hustler
Added 50 Views / 0 LikesAfter losing the biggest pot in recorded poker history, Wesley makes one last-ditch effort to get unstuck. He FIVE-BETS into Hank with A7s and barrels off the remaining streets. Hank is in an incredibly difficult spot with pocket Queens. Yet another thrilling hand in the Million Dollar Game at @HustlerCasinoLive Check out Hustler Casino Live: https://www.youtube.com/@HustlerCasinoLive
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15:37
I Have KK vs. AA! SET OVER SET! Can I Lay This Down?
Added 50 Views / 0 LikesHere's another crazy high stakes hands I played on Poker Night In America over the weekend. This time I've got my 2nd favorite hand with tens of thousands of dollars shoveling into the pot. Unfortunately, my opponent Kyle Julias has my 1st favorite hand, pocket aces. An ace and a king on the flop don't help matters, but the turn card gives me hope, and by the river I think I notice something fishy going on. Can I make one of the sickest laydowns in po
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12:50
He Fled The Country After Losing This HUGE POKER POT
Added 50 Views / 0 LikesRyusuke Daifuku is still on the run, allegedly owing millions of dollars to various high stakes regs in LA and more people overseas. Today we take a look at one of the last hands he played on @HustlerCasinoLive
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11:56
The Hottest Gambling Streak Of All Time
Added 49 Views / 0 LikesArchie Karas is a Las Vegas legend. In the early 1990s he went on the most improbable run of all time, amassing millions of dollars at billiards, high stakes poker, baccaract and craps. At one point he had amassed over $40,000,000. His friends pleaded with him to put a little bit of the money away for safe keeping, but nothing could stop his inevitable downfall. This video essay (mini documentary?) covers the wild ups and downs against poker legends s
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10:40
The BIGGEST Pot EVER On Live At The Bike!
Added 48 Views / 0 LikesDoug experienced some wild swings on Live at the Bike last week, eventually profiting for about $20,000. He also witnessed the largest pot in the history of the show. In a deep-stacked game of $50/$100 No Limit Hold'em, Michael makes a ballsy play on the turn, trying to move Josh off his hand. Was this a wise decision? As always, Doug breaks down each street of action. Poker Hands is the show where Doug analyzes live poker hands from tv poker shows su
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06:36
Lawyers are ordering me to take down 17 videos.
Added 47 Views / 0 LikesToday I have something a bit more serious to talk about. I received a cease and desist letter from Game Show Network, demanding that I take down all videos with any High Stakes Poker footage. I firmly believe that these hand breakdowns are protected under Fair Use law, and I have lawyers of my own looking into this, but today I am taking down 17 episodes of poker hands. I don't understand why I am being singled out for this. This is an unfortunate sit
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8:00:35
LIVE $25,000 Buy-In High Roller Poker Tournament!
Added 47 Views / 0 LikesI'm putting down $25k of my hard-earned money on the line in this internet poker high stakes event. It's the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) on PokerStars. In these high roller events, you'll mostly find players like Jason Mercier, Fedor Holz, Daniel Negreanu, Dan Smith, Viktor Blom (Isildur1), Daniel Cates (Jungleman), OtB_RedBaron, and many more tough opponents. It won't exactly be a cake walk, but I'm ready to battle and will even reloa
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13:36
Bad For Poker?
Added 47 Views / 0 LikesPoker players love to talk about what's "good for poker" and what is "bad for poker"? This issue once again came up recently with some critical comments by Scott Seiver (among others) about Antonio Esfandiari and Norman Chad. Today I want to examine this and other commonly raised issues about public perception and the health of the game. How important are these matters really in the grand scheme of things? To take YOUR poker tournament game to the nex
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10:32
Let's Play A $102,000 Sit 'N Go (Part 3)
Added 46 Views / 0 LikesIn this third and final installment, Doug fights for survival in the WCOOP Super High Roller. We start by observing the secondary table, where Doug's respected peer Jason Mercier suffers a heartbreaking cooler and is crippled. Back at the featured table, Doug locks horns with OtB_RedBaron and Christoph Vogelsang. Our hero flirts with the precipice of ruin, piloting a stack of 30 big blinds. The short-handed lineup of the tournament's best players does
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09:03
Let's Play A $102,000 Sit 'N Go (Part 1)
Added 46 Views / 0 LikesDoug ponies up six figures to play in the highest stakes online tournament of all time. The stacked field includes Isaac Haxton, Jason Mercier, Fedor Holz, OtB_RedBaron, Ben "Sauce" Sulsky, Igor Kurganov, and various other nosebleed regulars. Ever hand is a sweat, and Doug gets off to a great start, chipping up to over 40,000 from a 30k starting stack. However, these fields were never meant to be easy, and complications soon arise. To make matters wor
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18:31
Top 5 Pots Of ALL TIME In No Limit Hold'em Online
Added 46 Views / 0 LikesTexas Hold'em on the internet was like the Wild West back in 2008 and 2009. This was the golden age of high stakes poker online, where the biggest games of all time took place. The $500/$1,000 were often referred to as Rail Heaven, and were aptly named. Doug takes a look at the 5 largest all-time pots in NLHE and breaks down each street of action. All of these hands feature familiar faces such as Tom "Durrrr" Dwan, Viktor "Isildur1" Blom, Phil Ivey, a
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16:38
CHEATING SCANDAL Update With Daniel Negreanu!
Added 46 Views / 0 LikesTHIS JUST IN! @dnegspoker joins us live from the field to bring an update on the shocking cheating scandal involving Ali Imsimrovic. In other news, Robbi Jade Lew makes a splash at the 2023 Global Poker Awards. Chris Moneymaker's poker club gets shut down in Kentucky. Phil Galfond draws fire for his poker training software potentially being useful for real-time assistance. The Lodge Championship Series is coming! Full schedule here: https://thelodgepo
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18:30
The WORST Bad Beat In Poker History
Added 46 Views / 0 LikesThis is absolutely brutal. Imagine having the ace high flush, also generally known as the "nut flush", piling in hundreds of thousands of dollars, and still losing. That's exactly what happened to Andy Stacks on @HustlerCasinoLive. Could anything have been done to avoid this fate?
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15:31
One Drop Champ Is FLOORED By This Huge River Bet
Added 46 Views / 0 LikesAntonio Esfandiari does battle once again with the tricky businessman Bill Perkins. The hand starts innocently enough with a standard raise and some callers. However, Perkins springs a big raise on the turn and bombs the river, prompting the 3-time bracelet winner to give a speech. What on earth should he do here? Watch more Poker After Dark here: https://www.pokergo.com/ Check out my poker training site Upswing Poker: https://www.upswingpoker.com I h
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10:17
I Got The Value That Time!
Added 45 Views / 0 LikesEverything must go! Doug decides to mix things up with some home games on PokerStars, inviting viewers and fans to join him in some No Limit Hold'em cash games, MTTs, and even some NL 5-Card Draw. But even when the games are silly, Doug doesn't fool around. He sticks to solid strategy and gets after that value. Poor JudiciousJo gets the business time and time again. Even trip Kings aren't enough to save him in 5-Card Draw against a pat hand. And while
