Doug Polk Poker
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Poker Thoughts - How To Win At Poker
Added 44 Views / 0 LikesDoug is at the San Diego Convention Center for Twitch con, far from the usual studio. This hotel room will have to suffice. Today he premieres a new series, Poker Thoughts, in which he delves deeper into specific topics and questions that get brought up by viewers. In this episode, Doug explores some of the factors that go into becoming an actual winning player. Concepts covered include game selection, bankroll management, and how create edges to win
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10:03
Hop On In! ($5,000 PLO)
Added 33 Views / 0 LikesWhile on break of yet another midstakes MTT, Doug strolls on down to the section of PokerStars where real poker is played. He casually hops right into the $25/$50 Pot Limit Omaha Zoom pool. It's not always easy to get a game at these stakes, especially when it comes down to heads up play, but sometimes it's manageable. The first game does quickly break, so Doug must resort to dropping down in stakes. There's plenty of action to be found at the $2.50/$
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27:28
$71,000 Heads Up SNG! ($10k WCOOP Run, Part 10)
Added 60 Views / 0 LikesI this final installment, Doug finds himself heads up against Phil "Grindation" Mcallister for $71,000 and the prestige of taking the $10,000 WCOOP (World Championship of Online Poker) High Roller title. It all comes down this! Doug has already gotten even on the Vancouver trip and retaken the record for the largest score ever streamed live on Twitch. Can he also claim the cherry on top? It's a long, back and forth battle, as Doug falls back on the ro
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13:02
Poker Hands - Dan Colman Can't Believe Negreanu's Hand
Added 75 Views / 0 LikesDaniel Negreanu is one of the most accomplished players in the history of poker. He has six WSOP (World Series of Poker) bracelets, two WPT (World Poker Tour) titles, and is a regular on shows like High Stakes Poker and the EPT (European Poker Tour) circuit. In this edition of Poker Hands, Doug analyzes a hand between Daniel and Dan Colman in the Big One For One Drop. In case you haven't heard, this is a tournament with a staggering $1,000,000 buy-in.
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10:11
Let's Make A Deal ($10k WCOOP Run, Part 9)
Added 67 Views / 0 LikesIn the penultimate installment of Doug's historic run in the $10k WCOOP (World Championship of Online Poker) High Roller event, the final four players fight for enormous payjumps. Every place counts at this point, even if the ultimate goal is first. Upon the elimination of mexican222, the remaining three players finally decide to discuss a deal. After much deliberation, they agree on an ICM chop, giving Doug a few extra thousand dollars, and setting s
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07:10
$1.7 Million Downswing OVER! State of the Stream, Upcoming Plans, and WCOOP Recap
Added 48 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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PolkerNews - Fedor Holz Update, Alex Dreyfus Exposed, Poker Hall Of Fame Bureaucracy
Added 189 Views / 0 LikesDoug recaps the latest news, views and gossip in poker and shares his two cents. See timestamps below: 0:44 - Recap of WCOOP and plans for the near future. 1:31 - Problems with the Poker Hall of Fame procedures and credibility. 6:00 - Alex Dreyfus, history of slow paying, shady loans, GPL decline 14:51 - A bad reg wins a tournament 15:01 - Doug contemplates retirement in light of Fedor Holz's continued success. Topic threads: Recent Dealings Wtih GPL
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11:02
OH MY GOD! Final Table! ($10k WCOOP Run, Part 7)
Added 95 Views / 0 LikesDoug hangs on to make the final table of the High Roller event in the World Championship of Online Poker. This isn't the first time he's done this. In 2014, he reached the final table of this very same event, but finished in a disappointing 8th place. Maybe at the World Series of Poker, some players proudly count their final tables and POY stats, but this is the internet, and it's very serious business. In short order, Doug manages to best his previou
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22:21
Poker Hands - Fedor Holz Makes Moves In The Main Event
Added 77 Views / 0 LikesFedor Holz is a living legend. At the age 23, he already has $20 million in live MTT earnings, including a World Series of Poker bracelet in the Big One For One Drop. The One Drop is a super high roller that often features the likes of Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey, Antonio Esfandiari, and a host of the richest and most talented high stakes poker players around. In this video, he's merely playing a $10,000 buyin event. However, it is calle
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17:03
I'm Going In! ($10k WCOOP Run, Part 5)
Added 66 Views / 0 LikesThere's only 13 players left in the $10,000 World Championship of Online Poker High Roller event, and Doug is one of them! Unfortunately, after some bouncing around, he finds himself near the bottom of the pack. Unlike turbo and tag team World Series of Poker bracelets, it ain't easy taking down these SCOOPs and WCOOPs. Undeterred, Doug dives right in, making big moves preflop like the MTT greats Phil Hellmuth or Daniel Negreanu. When the chips are do
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14:05
High Stakes Battle With Sauce And Contemplating My Career
Added 63 Views / 0 LikesToday I just want to catch everyone up on what I've been up to. I had to take some time off of streaming because there was high stakes heads up action available to me. That's been rare the past few years. Lately I've been thinking about the path my career is taking, and I want to share some of those thoughts with you. I'll also talk about some of the big hands I played with Ben "Sauce" Sulksy this week. Doug is in Vancouver for the PokerStars WCOOP. C
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17:05
Bob Saget On The River! ($10k WCOOP Run, Part 4)
Added 65 Views / 0 LikesWhat ever happened to predictability? The flopped sets, the Aces pre, the BDFDs? Doug misses his old familiar friends, but does the best he can with the hands he's dealt. Stay tuned for more highlights from Doug's big score in the WCOOP $10,000 High Roller. Doug is in Vancouver for the PokerStars WCOOP. Check out his full schedule here: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CrdIv7kVI... FOLLOW DOUG: Snapchat • http://snapchat.com/add/WCGRider Twitter • https://
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Are You There Lord? It's Me, Doug ($10k WCOOP Run, Part 3)
Added 144 Views / 0 LikesDoug makes Day 2 of the $10,000 High Roller event of the World Championship of Online Poker. Not only that, but he starts with a massive chip lead! He kicks off this session with a solemn prayer to the poker gods, Patrik Antonius, and any other deity willing to listen. They must not have been listening, as things quickly go off the rails. Doug falls back to the middle of the pack, squandering his lead and struggling to get anything going. Is this the
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15:20
Doug Gets To Have The Nuts ($10k WCOOP Run, Part 2)
Added 47 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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13:30
Put Them To The Test! ($10k WCOOP Run, Part 1)
Added 70 Views / 0 LikesDoug's historic run kicks off with a bit of a rough start. He fails to get a bluff through, and finds himself seated with Dan "Jungleman" Cates, Brian "tsarrast" Rast, and online MTT legend Chris Moorman. However, Doug eventually gets some momentum going and even manages to get the best of Rast, who has a history of stacking Doug in tournaments. Later, Doug is moved to a table with Mustapha "lasagnaaammm" Kanit, Max "goodeh99" Silver and Ben Tollerene
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11:37
I Won $455,000! Recap Of The $10k WCOOP High Roller
Added 99 Views / 0 LikesDoug celebrates his 2nd place score in the $10,000 buy-in High Roller of the World Championship of Online Poker at PokerStars. Every hand was streamed live over 20+ hours on Twitch, with hole cards revealed. This is by far the largest score ever broadcasted on Twitch. There were some rocky moments during the tournament. In fact, the SCOOP trip itself has been tumultuous, as Doug was down $190,000 on the trip at one point. But sometimes all it takes is
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10:39
Classic Cooler! ($2,000 No Limit Hold'em)
Added 39 Views / 0 LikesDoug discovers that in order to get his money off of 888 Poker, he is forced to grind it out on the cash tables until the requisite amount has been raked to their satisfaction. Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do. At least there is some high stakes action. On the very first hand, Doug encounters a play so bewildering, so flabbergastingly astounding, that he has a rare moment of speechlessness. Later, he suffers further injustice, as the site
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18:45
Poker Hands - The Billionaire Hero Calls Viffer
Added 75 Views / 0 LikesViffer takes a bizarre line against billionaire Phil Ruffin, and gets caught red handed. Many aspects of this High Stakes Poker clip perplex Doug, but he breaks it down street by street as always. Poker Hands is a series in which Doug analyzes televised hands and shares his thoughts. New episodes are uploaded every Monday (and sometimes Thursday). FOLLOW DOUG: Snapchat • http://snapchat.com/add/WCGRider Twitter • https://twitter.com/DougPolkPoker Inst
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11:19
I'm Chipleading The $10k High Roller! Day 1 Review (1/56, $656k Up Top)
Added 57 Views / 0 LikesI'm giving away 1% of my profit for this tournament. Enter the Facebook drawing here: http://bit.ly/wcoopgiveaway Doug has a huge day in the WCOOP $10,300 High Roller event. Two years ago he made a deep run in this very same event, reaching the final table as the chipleader, but busting to Ben "Sauce" Sulksy and finishing a disappointing 8th. This year, Doug has a shot at redemption. He reviews some of the biggest hands of the day and gives an insider
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17:27
Top 5 Pots Of My Poker Career (Featuring Isildur1)
Added 46 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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30:32
One Card Hold'em?! - Silly Game Challenge
Added 48 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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10:32
Let's Play A $102,000 Sit 'N Go (Part 3)
Added 36 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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10:28
Let's Play A $102,000 Sit 'N Go (Part 2)
Added 35 Views / 0 LikesThe ludicrously high stakes action continues. Doug finds himself at a brutal table with Sauce123 (Ben Sulsky), OtB_RedBaron, and 26071985 (Christoph Vogelsang). Despite this awful table draw, Doug manages to build some momentum. Because Doug's table has four players, and the other table has five, prospective late registrants become trigger shy. They all know that the next person to register will be seated at the table of death. As the late registratio
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09:03
Let's Play A $102,000 Sit 'N Go (Part 1)
Added 39 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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Spin And Go Hand History Review With Courtney Gee
Added 57 Views / 0 LikesDoug is joined by #GrindNation teammate Courtney Gee, aka Courtiebee, to review some hand histories. He shares his thoughts on how to approach Spin & Go's, a shallow stacked, short-handed freezeout format, and analyzes several spots Courtney recently encountered. Courtney is currently doing a bankroll challenge on her YouTube channel, starting with $25 and attempting to run it up at the Spin and Go's on PokerStars. Check out her channel here: https://
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Heads Up With Ben "Sauce" Sulsky
Added 73 Views / 0 LikesWhile warming up in the WCOOP $10,000 Heads Up Tournament, Sauce sits in at Doug's $50/$100 heads up Zoom table. It's rare these days for Doug to get action at high stakes heads up no limit hold 'em, and even rarer for it to be broadcasted live on Twitch! Doug has a lot of heads up history with Ben Sulsky. With much fanfare, they once played a 15,000 hand heads up challenge with a $100,000 figure sidebet, in which Doug won $727,000 at the tables. Doug
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24:27
Poker Hands - Is Tom Dwan Really Bluffing Phil Ivey Here?
Added 86 Views / 0 LikesDoug breaks down one of the most famous hands from High Stakes Poker. Phil Ivey, the 10-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, is put to the test on the river for a $676,000 pot. He seems sure that Tom "Durrrr" Dwan is bluffing, but it's a costly mistake if he's wrong. What would you do? The table goes silent as Daniel Negreanu, Antonio Esfandiari, Eli Elezra and Phil Laak look on in fascination. Nobody seems to believe that Dwan could have been
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09:32
My $102,000 WCOOP Betting Tips
Added 63 Views / 0 LikesIt's that magical time of year when all of online poker's most glamorous and glitzy professionals ball out of control by wagering six figures on a three table sit 'n go. For those of you interested in making a wager or two for a good sweat, Doug offers his unique insights into where the value truly lies. These are based on the Pokerstars betting lines at the time of this recording. Doug is in Vancouver for the PokerStars WCOOP. Check out his full sche
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07:06
Heads Up With Ike Haxton ($10,000 NLHE)
Added 69 Views / 0 LikesIsaac Haxton is a former Pokerstars Team Online pro and has won millions of dollars playing high stakes online cash games. However, he generally is unwilling to play Doug heads up at No Limit Hold Em. What changed his mind? A lot of people ask why the hole cards are covered in these high stakes matches. A common misconception is that this is to prevent stream sniping. Streaming on a delay is sufficient to stop people from seeing your cards in real tim
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10:24
Sevens Are Hot Today! ($1,000,000 Gtd WCOOP)
Added 81 Views / 0 LikesDoug fires up a spin and proceeds to go on a hot streak. With some help from the viewers at Twitch, he channels up all the sevens he needs. Easy game. Doug is in Vancouver for the PokerStars WCOOP. Check out his full schedule here: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CrdIv7kVIAEDTYV.png FOLLOW DOUG: Snapchat • http://snapchat.com/add/WCGRider Twitter • https://twitter.com/DougPolkPoker Instagram • http://instagram.com/DougPolkPoker Facebook • https://facebook