Who is Doug Polk?

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I have watched and listened to him. His accolades are good but c'mon now he is like a pre announcer... I would have done this or I would prefer that..

I like this video of Doyle Brunson he comments on..

It's Doyle Brunson, the guy has been playing poker doug way way way before you were a gleam in your daddy's eyes. Analyze amateurs at least not some pro who has way way more accolades then you.


Then to analyze this hand.. LOL Tony G is a non active player.. you are not wanting to do this Tony G against better players. So Venessa Rousso isn't a good players? I prefer the re-raise be 15k to 17k on the flop compared to the 20k.. lol who is this joker?? you prefer... you prefer... you prefer..

My point is, just because you won a few things doesn't make you the grand poo ba of poker know it all
 
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He does talk a lil sh*t but its all in fun. Hes got a funny sarcastic personality. Plus hes has the resume to back it up. The guy has 2 bracelets and holds the record for the biggest cashes while streaming on twitch and youtube. I was like you, before I knew who he was (who the hell does this guy think he is) But after watching his videos he does know what hes talking about he is legit. And as I type this he is 4 of 5 in the one drop and guaranteed at least 800k for the tournament.
 
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He does talk a lil sh*t but its all in fun. Hes got a funny sarcastic personality. Plus hes has the resume to back it up. The guy has 2 bracelets and holds the record for the biggest cashes while streaming on twitch and youtube. I was like you, before I knew who he was (who the hell does this guy think he is) But after watching his videos he does know what hes talking about he is legit. And as I type this he is 4 of 5 in the one drop and guaranteed at least 800k for the tournament.

Daniel Negreanu (/nᵻˈɡrɑːnoʊ/; born July 26, 1974) is a Canadian professional poker player who has won six world series of poker (wsop) bracelets and two World Poker Tour (WPT) championship titles. The independent poker ranking service Global Poker Index (GPI) recognised Negreanu as the best poker player of the decade in 2014.[2]
Since his second place finish in the Big One For One Drop 2014 tournament, he is the biggest live tournament poker winner of all time, having accumulated over $32,600,000 in prize money.[3] He was named the WSOP Player of the Year in 2004 and again in 2013, making him the first (and only) player in WSOP history to win the accolade more than once. He was also the 2004-05 WPT Player of the Year. He is the first player to make a final table at each of the three WSOP bracelet-awarding locations (Las Vegas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific) and the first to win a bracelet at each.[4] In 2014, he was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame.[5]

Doyle F. Brunson[1] (born August 10, 1933) [2] is an American poker player who has played professionally for over 50 years.[3] He is a two-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion, a Poker Hall of Fame inductee, and the author of several books on poker.
Brunson was the first player to earn $1 million in poker tournaments and has won ten WSOP bracelets throughout his career, tied with Johnny Chan and Phil Ivey for second all-time, behind Phil Hellmuth's fourteen bracelets. He is also one of only four players to have won the Main Event at the World Series of Poker multiple times, which he did in 1976 and 1977. He is also one of only two players, along with Bill Boyd, to have won WSOP tournaments in four consecutive years. In addition, he is the first of five players to win both the WSOP Main Event and a World Poker Tour title. In January 2006, bluff Magazine voted Brunson the most influential force in the world of poker.[4]

Tony G
As a child, Guoga was the Rubik's Cube champion of Lithuania before moving to Melbourne, Australia at the age of 11. He has played poker since the age of 18, and is known for his outlandish table talk and frequent intimidation of his opponents. He had a fifth-place finish in the World Poker Tour Grand Prix de Paris 2003. He finished in the money twice at the 2004 World Series of Poker in Seven-card stud and Pot Limit Texas hold 'em tournaments and three months later earned his then biggest tournament money finish in the WPT Grand Prix de Paris 2004, where his second-place finish to England's Surinder Sunar earned him $414,478. He finished on the bubble later in the same month at the WPT 2004 Mirage Poker Showdown. On August 7, 2005, he won the £5,000 No Limit Hold-Em Main Event of the European Poker Championships, earning £260,000 ($456,822). Later in 2005, he made the final table of the World Speed Poker Open.
In 2006, he won the WPT Bad Boys of Poker II event when his 10♦*8♦ outdrew Mike Matusow's K♠*K♥ on a board of 8♠*10♠*2♥*9♥*Q♣. He wore a kimono throughout the event to promote poker in Japan. Also in 2006, he finished second to Yosh Nakano while representing Australia in the inaugural Intercontinental Poker Championship, taking down $150,000. True to his reputation, Tony G launched many verbal assaults against his opponents, most notably when he eliminated Russian Ralph Perry in fourth place. Tony G started to provoke Perry when he was deciding how to play his hand before the flop. When Perry called Tony G's all-in with a worse hand, Tony G proceeded to ridicule and lecture him. Tony's comments were so scathing that it prompted commentator Gabe Kaplan to quip "I think Tony G is speaking more like a Lithuanian than an Australian" and "Tony G could singlehandedly reignite the Cold War".[20] Guoga was more respectful of some other players, such as Doyle Brunson, calling Doyle his idol after eliminating him.
In November 2006, he won the Asian Poker Tour event held in Singapore, walking away with $451,700, half of which he indicated he will give to Asian and Australian charities to be nominated by betfair.[21] In February 2007, he appeared on the NBC television program Poker After Dark, coming in third place behind winner Phil Ivey. In November of the same year, he won a tournament in Moscow, earning $205,000. Often telling his opponents that he has a "big heart", Tony claims that he left all of his prize money with the officials to give to Russian orphanages, having been inspired to do so by Barry Greenstein's habit of donating all his poker tournament winnings to charity.[22] In January 2008, Tony received the Shining World Leadership Award in Melbourne Australia.[23] As of 2011, his total live tournament winnings exceed $4,000,000.[24] His 14 cashes at the WSOP account for $429,897 of those winnings.[25] Guoga is also the principal owner of a network of high-traffic poker information sites, including Pokernews.com, Pokeraffiliateworld.com and Pokerworks.com.[citation needed]
On February 23, 2010, in Vilnius Guoga established the Lithuanian Poker Federation.[26]
In 2014, Guoga confirmed that he will not be returning to professional poker.[27]

Vanessa Ashley Rousso[1] (born February 5, 1983) is an American professional poker player.[2] Born in White Plains, New York, Rousso holds dual citizenship with the United States and france.[3] Rousso was a member of Team pokerstars from 2006 to 2015, with the online name Lady Maverick. She is a spokesperson for GoDaddy.com. She has earned money as a professional poker player since 2005,[4] and has become one of the game's sex symbols.[5][6]
As of 2015, Rousso has finished in the money in numerous live poker events and accumulated over $3,500,000 in career earnings.[7] She has placed in the money seventeen times at the World Series of Poker.[8] In 2007, she won over $700,000 with a second-place finish in the main event of the World Championship of online poker. She ranks among the top five women in poker history in terms of all-time money winnings.[9]

So again who is Doug Polk especially to suggest on what he prefers someone with much much more accolades them him on what they should or shouldn't have done???
 
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It is not because someone is younger or has a smaller list of achievements that he can't give comments on the play of other people.
It's like saying that the student cannot give remarks to the professor, even though the professor made a mistake. There are some clever young people around (not talking about Doug Polk in particular, because I have not really checked him out yet), from which even specialist in certain subjects can learn something.
 
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He is the winner of the 111K highroller event in the wsop
 
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So again who is Doug Polk especially to suggest on what he prefers someone with much much more accolades them him on what they should or shouldn't have done???

Who are you to ask who is Doug Polk? How many bracelets have you won exactly? :D
 
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I think he is a very very good player. And he is good for the pokercommunity i think. he makes it fun to watch and it's nice to learn from him.
 
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@twizzybop, well while talking about poker, there are can be always different points of view at how you play a hand best. A Doug Polk represents his point of view at his channel. And i don't think it's something wrong about it. I do personally like his hand analyzes pretty much and i can gain a lot of information out of it for my own game. For me it's really kind of educational videos. Especially very useful to get into mind of a winning high roller, who Doug Polk obviously is. But if you don't like his critics about play of other poker pros or generally his point of view how to play a poker game, why not just watch something else? There are enough other poker streamers at the Internet, right? Don't need to pick on Doug, just because his point of view about playing poker is different, than yours.
And after all, you wouldn't reply back "Who the hell are you and what are your achievements at poker to criticise my play?!" to the guys, who do some critics about how you played a hand, that you have posted at "Hand analyze" section of CC's forum, or would you? :)
 
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Daniel Negreanu (/nᵻˈɡrɑːnoʊ/; born July 26, 1974) is a Canadian professional poker player who has won six World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets and two World Poker Tour (WPT) championship titles. The independent poker ranking service Global Poker Index (GPI) recognised Negreanu as the best poker player of the decade in 2014.[2]
Since his second place finish in the Big One For One Drop 2014 tournament, he is the biggest live tournament poker winner of all time, having accumulated over $32,600,000 in prize money.[3] He was named the WSOP Player of the Year in 2004 and again in 2013, making him the first (and only) player in WSOP history to win the accolade more than once. He was also the 2004-05 WPT Player of the Year. He is the first player to make a final table at each of the three WSOP bracelet-awarding locations (Las Vegas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific) and the first to win a bracelet at each.[4] In 2014, he was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame.[5]

Doyle F. Brunson[1] (born August 10, 1933) [2] is an American poker player who has played professionally for over 50 years.[3] He is a two-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion, a Poker Hall of Fame inductee, and the author of several books on poker.
Brunson was the first player to earn $1 million in poker tournaments and has won ten WSOP bracelets throughout his career, tied with Johnny Chan and Phil Ivey for second all-time, behind Phil Hellmuth's fourteen bracelets. He is also one of only four players to have won the Main Event at the World Series of Poker multiple times, which he did in 1976 and 1977. He is also one of only two players, along with Bill Boyd, to have won WSOP tournaments in four consecutive years. In addition, he is the first of five players to win both the WSOP Main Event and a World Poker Tour title. In January 2006, Bluff Magazine voted Brunson the most influential force in the world of poker.[4]

Tony G
As a child, Guoga was the Rubik's Cube champion of Lithuania before moving to Melbourne, Australia at the age of 11. He has played poker since the age of 18, and is known for his outlandish table talk and frequent intimidation of his opponents. He had a fifth-place finish in the World Poker Tour Grand Prix de Paris 2003. He finished in the money twice at the 2004 World Series of Poker in Seven-card stud and Pot Limit Texas hold 'em tournaments and three months later earned his then biggest tournament money finish in the WPT Grand Prix de Paris 2004, where his second-place finish to England's Surinder Sunar earned him $414,478. He finished on the bubble later in the same month at the WPT 2004 Mirage Poker Showdown. On August 7, 2005, he won the £5,000 No Limit Hold-Em Main Event of the European Poker Championships, earning £260,000 ($456,822). Later in 2005, he made the final table of the World Speed Poker Open.
In 2006, he won the WPT Bad Boys of Poker II event when his 10♦*8♦ outdrew Mike Matusow's K♠*K♥ on a board of 8♠*10♠*2♥*9♥*Q♣. He wore a kimono throughout the event to promote poker in Japan. Also in 2006, he finished second to Yosh Nakano while representing Australia in the inaugural Intercontinental Poker Championship, taking down $150,000. True to his reputation, Tony G launched many verbal assaults against his opponents, most notably when he eliminated Russian Ralph Perry in fourth place. Tony G started to provoke Perry when he was deciding how to play his hand before the flop. When Perry called Tony G's all-in with a worse hand, Tony G proceeded to ridicule and lecture him. Tony's comments were so scathing that it prompted commentator Gabe Kaplan to quip "I think Tony G is speaking more like a Lithuanian than an Australian" and "Tony G could singlehandedly reignite the Cold War".[20] Guoga was more respectful of some other players, such as Doyle Brunson, calling Doyle his idol after eliminating him.
In November 2006, he won the Asian Poker Tour event held in Singapore, walking away with $451,700, half of which he indicated he will give to Asian and Australian charities to be nominated by Betfair.[21] In February 2007, he appeared on the NBC television program Poker After Dark, coming in third place behind winner Phil Ivey. In November of the same year, he won a tournament in Moscow, earning $205,000. Often telling his opponents that he has a "big heart", Tony claims that he left all of his prize money with the officials to give to Russian orphanages, having been inspired to do so by Barry Greenstein's habit of donating all his poker tournament winnings to charity.[22] In January 2008, Tony received the Shining World Leadership Award in Melbourne Australia.[23] As of 2011, his total live tournament winnings exceed $4,000,000.[24] His 14 cashes at the WSOP account for $429,897 of those winnings.[25] Guoga is also the principal owner of a network of high-traffic poker information sites, including Pokernews.com, Pokeraffiliateworld.com and Pokerworks.com.[citation needed]
On February 23, 2010, in Vilnius Guoga established the Lithuanian Poker Federation.[26]
In 2014, Guoga confirmed that he will not be returning to professional poker.[27]

Vanessa Ashley Rousso[1] (born February 5, 1983) is an American professional poker player.[2] Born in White Plains, New York, Rousso holds dual citizenship with the United States and France.[3] Rousso was a member of Team PokerStars from 2006 to 2015, with the online name Lady Maverick. She is a spokesperson for GoDaddy.com. She has earned money as a professional poker player since 2005,[4] and has become one of the game's sex symbols.[5][6]
As of 2015, Rousso has finished in the money in numerous live poker events and accumulated over $3,500,000 in career earnings.[7] She has placed in the money seventeen times at the World Series of Poker.[8] In 2007, she won over $700,000 with a second-place finish in the main event of the World Championship of Online Poker. She ranks among the top five women in poker history in terms of all-time money winnings.[9]

So again who is Doug Polk especially to suggest on what he prefers someone with much much more accolades them him on what they should or shouldn't have done???

Doug Polk just won the One Drop for his third bracelet that gives him 3 more than Tony and Rousso, and 3 away from Negreanu. In wining the One for One Drop he nets 3,686,865 which brings his wsop earnings to 4,537,587 that makes him 43 in all times wsop earings well ahead of Tony, Rousso and even Doyle Brunson. So yeah I think that would suggest that he is in the same league as the players you mentioned, and might give him a little credence to critique their play.
 
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He's a fun guy to watch on streams to be honest. And apparently he's really good considering he just won the One Drop.

His personality is good for the game IMO.
 
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What's up guys, Doug Polk here:)
Doug Polk is a professional blogger and poker player, owns UpswingPoker
 
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Doug Polk is a controversial figure. On the one hand, it is calm and modest in person, on the other - one of the most successful and ambiguous players in online poker
 
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Well.... tournament play isn't his forte... so perhaps that's why "YOU" haven't heard of him.

He's played the toughest, most competitive forms of poker online, vs. the TOP players! Many rank him as the #1 HUNL highstakes player today.
He had a great accomplishment 4yrs. ago when he easily beat Ben Sulsky (Sauce1234) in their HU NoLimit challenge.

Doug Polk started off playing poker on Pokerstars, playing $0.01/$0.02 stakes cash games. He ran his initial $20 deposit up to $10,000
By 2011 he began to play fullt-time & it was within 2yrs. he was able to rise to the top being considered by his peers to be one of the best!

Tournaments aren't his game but even so he now has accumulated $8.8 million in winnings.

Yah... this guy has zero credentials. :confused::confused::confused::confused:
 
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Doug Polk is a No Limit Hold'em specialist. He is really good, I recommend watching his videos or streams. You can learn a lot from him.
 
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I have watched and listened to him. His accolades are good but c'mon now he is like a pre announcer... I would have done this or I would prefer that..

I like this video of Doyle Brunson he comments on..
$294,600 - Doyle Brunson FIGHTS Young Gun For This Pot - YouTube

It's Doyle Brunson, the guy has been playing poker doug way way way before you were a gleam in your daddy's eyes. Analyze amateurs at least not some pro who has way way more accolades then you.

Boat Over Boat! Vanessa Rousso FIRES BACK At Tony G - YouTube

Then to analyze this hand.. LOL Tony G is a non active player.. you are not wanting to do this Tony G against better players. So Venessa Rousso isn't a good players? I prefer the re-raise be 15k to 17k on the flop compared to the 20k.. lol who is this joker?? you prefer... you prefer... you prefer..

My point is, just because you won a few things doesn't make you the grand poo ba of poker know it all

By the same token, I have heard plenty about Doug Polk, but never heard of twezzypoop before.
 
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Honestly, I'm not a fan of his (personality-wise on YouTube) but his recent result is very impressive and kudos for shutting up some overly-disrespectful and projecting haters, i.e. Bubblegum.
 
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Doug Polk is a beast ... Has been for years... Congrats on bracelet number 3, I am sure number 4 is coming soon :)

 
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alls i know is he does not like tom dwan lol
 
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He's probably the best heads up player in the world like.
 
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I dunno, but I subscribed on youtube. I like one of his video.
 
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I`m not sure who he is, but I have seen and heard him in youtube adds :D "Hello, I`m Doug Polk :D "
 
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He's probably the best heads up player in the world like.
Really??? Dan Cates, Dan Coleman and Olivier Busquet are all better heads up players and that was just off the top of my head.
 
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LOL I should have rephrased the title but oh hum

Who does polk think he is to critique pro players who have many more accolades, not who has more money.

To answer the question if I come here with a hand to be critiqued, it is me asking for the critique. Major Major difference from me asking to a Pro not asking. Now when someone or a few resond am I going to say nahhh don't read or take Joe Blow's opinion because he has 1 post but yet for all I know Joe Blow could be a darn good poker player. If it seems sound then who am I to say otherwise.

Now if you want to know me and my accolades. I don't pat myself on the back or get grandiose even on the little success I have had playing and participating as a member towards this forum. But lets see if I can recall what I have done, won my first freeroll and of all things playing stud poker online. Won about 3 freerolls online at hold-em. Ranging from 500 players to 1000. Even touched on a few sit and go's. I have won a turbo tournament and that was a blast because of the speed of the blinds. While doing on that and reading, studying the game and losing the money from the freerolls I made. I took 2.00 dollars on the micro limit tables and turned that around to 36.00 which I had to stop once that law came into effect about USA. Right before that law took effect I was running a tournament point system on this forum. I had already run 1 point system tournament and was into my 2nd when the law came into effect. So yes in essence I was consitantly working on my game. As slow as it may have been, I was actually starting to get better. Plus playing live micro limits I was also making a small profit, around 30 dollars. I have made 1 final table live in a tourney while almost making another but that was due to poor play from playing drunk. Not an excuse but that is the reason non the less.
So yes I may not have made the bukko bucks but I was becoming a formidable player. All thanks to reading, this forum, studying play and continually playing.
I couldn't learn if I wasn't playing because to me playing was a good form of constantly practicing and getting better.

Now I will humble myself and if any of you now wish to slice and dice that, you can go right ahead.

Polk is a cash player and admittingly very good at what he does. I will leave you at that but agreed he won his 3rd bracelet by the skin of his teeth and got lucky.

Coming into the final day of the event, Polk hit the skids right away as he dropped a series of early pots. He was soon in shove-or-fold mode and shove he did with ten-nine of hearts when down to his last 13 big blinds. He doubled through Martin Jacobson, who called him with ace-queen only to see the cash game legend flop a ten and hold against 10 outs on the turn.

Luck comes and goes but knowledge is forever. Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and then.

Now to again be humble.. knock yourselves out
 
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Doug tends to troll for the lol's but is one of the better poker player's in the world.
 
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