Doug Polk Completes $100-to-$10K Bankroll Challenge, Then Abruptly Retires from Poker

Congratulations to Doug! But, wait! He's retiring from poker?

Do you think Doug can really retire from poker?

Yes, he's already retired. His volume of play is nothing compared to what it was and he's no longer earning his living at it. Does it mean he'll never touch a playing card again, of course not. If I'm a teacher and I retire it doesn't mean I can never teach anyone anything again, it means it's not my job anymore.

Yep,my buddy was a garbage man for 35 years,and yes,he still takes out his garbage! It never ends!

The whole point of this challenge was to do it with proper bankroll management, but at the end he just said screw and played way higher stakes. I doubt he's officially retiring from poker I think he's just saying that to mess with his audience.

Congrats to Doug, it was a lot of fun to watch. I doubt he retires from Poker but understand him stepping back from the game to pursue other interests. I would imagine he still plays some of the bigger tourneys at least.

Well, it's definitely an impressive achievement for a high-stakes player as just playing in micro stakes should be a challenge for him. Though 2 years looks an enormous period of time considering that https://www.twitch.tv/zapahzamazki completed his challenge of "5$ to 10000$" on Poker Stars within a month.

Wonderful achievement, but I am sorry, $1/$2 is low stakes, not micro. He only did the first 4k micro and then gave up on micro, did the other 6k in one day.

Who knew Vanessa Selbst was so good at poker? What a wonderful young poker player he is.

Was super exciting to watch! Awesome job Doug

Impressive feat for sure. Obviously a very good player. Running good helps everyone. I’m curious on how a retired player is going to continue to teach current players without keeping up with the game. Poker is ever changing and strategy is evolving. I wonder if he will continue to teach or hire others to represent his site.

He tripled his bankroll and got to ten grand overnight.

Buy yourself something nice.

I watched the last couple of streams he did in August. It was crazy seeing him overbet bluff rivers with missed draws. At the end of the day, I feel like he had poor bankroll management, and it kind of went against the whole idea of the challenge. At the same time, I'm glad he was able to complete it because it didn't seem like he was going to for a while.

Congrats to Doug!
He is such a great player and youtuber content and deserved to finish this challenge.
Of course in the last days he had poor bankroll management but maybe he thought it worth to try bigger stakes and finish the challenge ASAP.

I think he realized that poker is an ordinary bingo, anyone will get tired of this!

congratulations Doug on another challenge complete. well done.

Doug will be back in the next 10 years ! I speculate poker burn out has set and it's a good time to refocuses his creative energies.

Sadly, I do think Doug is retiring for good. I imagine he'll play an occasional high roller for fun but the days of him battling consistently against the other best players in the world seem to be behind him. He noted on his stream that poker is a great way to go from zero to a million dollars, but not from a million to 10 million. He certainly has millions already, and on his last few streams Doug seemed like he had accomplished everything he wanted to in poker. This leads me to believe he is seeking new challenges outside of poker to mentally stimulate himself, although I remain ever hopeful that he will make a grand return!

Originally Posted by xbursonicx

Well, it's definitely an impressive achievement for a high-stakes player as just playing in micro stakes should be a challenge for him. Though 2 years looks an enormous period of time considering that https://www.twitch.tv/zapahzamazki completed his challenge of "5$ to 10000$" on Poker Stars within a month.

If you watched his summary of the challenge, or was along for the ride. It was 50 sessions. Yes, it was 2 years but he took almost a year when he did not play any sessions at all. Basically, he told everyone before he resumed the challenge that he retired from actively playing. He said he was going to finish the challenge because he gave his word to the audience.

What impressed me about the challenge, I know people love to hate on Doug, If you look at the challenge, he was not a full-time poker player through almost all of it. He played on WSOP which means he did not have a huge choice of games. He had to take what he could get, along with a small player pool, much more difficult than a challenge on Stars, or PartyPoker. He says he does not enjoy poker anymore, but I can tell you the last 4-5 sessions were great fun to watch.

This is pretty cool, even just the fact that he stuck with it and saw the entire thing out instead of, like they call it, "becoming the next Durr Challenge" (which is something that did indeed make me lose a great deal of respect for Durr). So regardless of time or methods, I give props to Doug for completing this challenge, it's not by any means an easy challenge to complete. As for him being retired, I'm not exactly sure if I believe that. I'd imagine that he continues to cash in on the coaching foundation he set up, and I also would be willing to bet we still see him in the occasional tourneys coming up. Maybe it will become more of a hobby, but I don't see how he could just give it up and retire completely

Originally Posted by shells_bells_53

Doug Polk Completes $100-to-$10K Bankroll Challenge, Then Abruptly Retires from Poker

Congratulations to Doug! But, wait! He's retiring from poker?

Do you think Doug can really retire from poker?

Doug has retired how ever from his youtube channel i gather that there are atleast 2 factors in his decision 1 is online cheats at acr and he simply doesn't enjoy playing anymore when you play solid poker it can get rather boring and he is a go go go kind of guy and i wish bim the best in what ever he does in the future

I liked to watch doug play in the microstakes on WSOP.com. It really helped me learn some of his tactics against the players at stakes I play in. I really hope he will try this again.. or someone of his similar ability, as it is a great learning experience for the followers.

Originally Posted by MatMackenz

I liked to watch doug play in the microstakes on WSOP.com. It really helped me learn some of his tactics against the players at stakes I play in. I really hope he will try this again.. or someone of his similar ability, as it is a great learning experience for the followers.

Matt, Check out "Twitch" there are always Poker Players, some poker pro's some pro "streamers" and someone is always doing a challenge or else they are streaming Tournaments at all different buy-ins, Cash games also at smaller stakes.

Congratulations to him , I don t think he will stop playing poker like for ever but he will miss all the action .

Originally Posted by shells_bells_53

Doug Polk Completes $100-to-$10K Bankroll Challenge, Then Abruptly Retires from Poker

Congratulations to Doug! But, wait! He's retiring from poker?

Do you think Doug can really retire from poker?

I feel like the actual challenge was kind of tarnished since he finished it with some bad bankroll management. But I give him props for getting it to 10k no matter how he was able to do it. I want to eventually take my $100+ and turn it into 10k so it is definitely a fun challenge. I think I would make smaller goals though such as getting it to $200 instead of making one that would take so long to accomplish over time.

First and foremost, I do not think it will be removed from poker, because maybe it's a strategy to see what your opponents think, hahaha, he will always talk, he likes to be the center of attention, there is a draw to play a tournament the WSOp .. !!

Originally Posted by Kanetuck

Wonderful achievement, but I am sorry, $1/$2 is low stakes, not micro. He only did the first 4k micro and then gave up on micro, did the other 6k in one day.

I agree, I think he even played some 2/5 at the end, that is mid stake in my opinion. Still a good job tho, impressive last day.

It might sound supercilious but I don't find $100-$10,000 anywhere near as impressive as $0-$10,000.

The chaotic nature of the £0-$100 increment makes me feel this way. Starting at $100 defies the point of this kind of challenge if you ask me.

I'm not taking anything away from the achievement of running $100 up to $10k, it's surely a nice thing to do, but for a pro, doing that should be well within their capabilities.

Never thought very highly of this Polk character to be perfectly honest, hope you enjoy your retirement from polker Sir!

Doug has later commented, that few people watched this challenge compared to his other content. So if someone else plan on doing this and see it as a way to earn advertisement money from Youtube, probably better spend your time on something else. Most people want to see some big bluff in a million dollar tournament, not a boring daily grind in the games, they actually play

10 to 10k is the dream. grats to dougie.

The result of the word! Phenomenally, a huge motivation and an example for all of us fans of this game. Play plus is always possible, you just need to live it, and not just want.))

Personally, I'm glad Doug is retired from Poker. I'm not sure what has happened to him. When I first started watching his vlogs they were informative and he was respectful. All that has changed over the last year or so and not for the better.