Doug Polk
Doug Polk finished wrapped things up with a winning session, bringing the total win over 25,000 hands to $1,200,000. The final result hardly came as a surprise as Polk was a heavy favorite going into the whole thing. Polk, who is a Texas Hold’em HU specialist, was definitely on his turf for the grudge match, and even Negreanu knew this.
Doug Polk poker results, stats, photos, videos, news, magazine columns, blogs, Twitter, and more. The grudge has been put to rest, both on the felt and off the felt it seems, between Doug Polk and Daniel Negreanu. On the felt, the result was firm and resounding: Polk proved the superior. 84.8k Followers, 73 Following, 1,001 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Douglas K Polk (@dougpolkpoker).
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for those that don't know (and i expect it's about 95% of you), Polk and Dnegs are engaged in a heads up challenge. it's live streamed every session. This is the Upswing stream from last night. There are a couple of other accounts with streaming and commentary
DNegs has basically been broken and is having a legitimate life meltdown calling Doug lucky so much it's become the meme (hence why Polk changed his handle from 'Truck Driver' to 'Very Lucky'). Doug Polk's Twitter is UNLEASHING on the 'lucky' claims by DNegs
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What ever happened with that dude that was cheating with help from the casino?
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i know one suit was thrown out of California courts b/c they have really bad case precedent about gambling debts
i don't know about any other suits or any sort of criminal investigation
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DNEG is avg by today’s online standard
i think that's being generous
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Dude made his money being the face of poker stars and having them picking up his tournament tabs.
oh yeah i'm sure WSOP is funding a lot of his money for this match as well
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There used to be a poker room manager at the Horizon in Vicksburg that was a poker dealer in Toronto when Daniel was just starting out.
He told me that Negreanu would grind 4/8 LHE until he built his bankroll up enough to take a shot at 10/20 or 20/40, then go busto and start grinding 4/8 again so he could take another shot. He said he must have done it a dozen times before he stuck at the higher limits.
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I can't stand Doug Polk but it isn't because of the DNegs stuff. My issues with Daniel aren't poker related. Unfortunately, Daniel decided to do these matches online which isn't his specialty. He is much better at live reads and live poker which add marginal value to online poker. Polk and his GTO strategy will always win over time against a feel player.
All of this said, they should have ended this a long time ago. Daniel should've went for half online, half live to have a chance. Maybe 10 sessions total. I lost interest weeks ago.
ETA: And to be fair, Daniel's meltdown started a long time ago. He should've known that he couldn't stand the online variance when COVID happened.
ETA2: MTT strategies and Cash strategies are two completely different animals. I prefer MTTs even though the pain is much more difficult to handle when you can't just reload and get back after it.
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quote:Polk is obviously better heads up, but Polk has been luckier.
DNegs has basically been broken and is having a legitimate life meltdown calling Doug lucky so much it's become the meme (hence why Polk changed his handle from 'Truck Driver' to 'Very Lucky'). Doug Polk's Twitter is UNLEASHING on the 'lucky' claims by DNegs
There's a dude who follows and tracks the all in EV, and last I checked a few days ago, DNegs was like -$300k EV or some shite like that.
DNegs should have taken the out when he had the option.
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bug DNegs is supposed to be the professional with 30 years playing experience, etc. and he's tilting
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When Daniel Negreanuaccepted a challenge to play two tables of $200-$400 heads-up no-limit hold’em against Doug Polk for 25,000 hands, Polk trolled Negreanu by referring to himself as a truck driver and that he was coming into the match with the intention of backing up the truck and driving away with all the money.
Eventually, Polk ditched the truck driver schtick, but he did end up winning a ton of money as the duo completed the challenge Wednesday evening with a marathon session. Over 1,712 hands and more than six hours of heads-up poker, Polk won $255,722 and netted a win of more than $1.2 million for the entire challenge.
“Congratulations to Doug,” said Negreanu after the match in a post-game interview on the GGPoker YouTube channel. “He’s a great player and obviously the favorite going in. It was a fun challenge. I felt like there were ebbs and flows, of course, in terms of how I felt about it. He’s happy, obviously. He’s the big winner on the match, deservedly so. He played well.”
Following some shenanigans last week where Polk using a strategy that involved limping a ton of hands on the button, which Negreanu countered by excessively tanking, there were only 3,694 hands remaining in the challenge. On Wednesday afternoon, Negreanu said that the challenge was “likely to finish Friday unless we are feeling spicy and looking to gamboooool!”
The spice was clearly there and the pair decided to play long enough to end it. Polk came into the final two sessions with a nearly insurmountable lead of $736,804 and extended it by winning $209,281 on Monday.
Negreanu opened up a six-figure lead in Wednesday’s final session, but ultimately the tides turned and Polk won the four buy-ins back from the six-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner to get unstuck on the day and proceeded to win more than six buy-ins after that. Polk was on the right end of several coolers including a preflop all in with both players holding A-K. But a runout that contained for spades gave Polk the nut flush and a huge pot.
“The key about massive hands, right?” said Negreanu. “Step 1 is get one. And step 2 is have your opponent have something so strong that you’re going to get all the money.”
It takes some good fortune to go on a 10 buy-in upswing over the course of a six-hour session, but Polk said he was proud of the work that he put into getting back into the swing of heads-up no-limit hold ’em, a game he was once considered the best in the world at.
“I’m very happy that I spent so much time preparing and it really ended up helping me tremendously,” said Polk in a post-game interview of his with Nick Schulman and Jaime Kerstetter on his own YouTube channel. “And that I got to execute at such a high level over such a long period of time.”
Polk went on to thank a slew of people that he had in his corner throughout the whole match.
The three-time WSOP bracelet winner said that he was working with a few people from a general coaching perspective that helped him lock down his approach to the game, another handful of poker players that helped him implement preflop ranges to coincide with Negreanu’s different raise sizes, as well as a large group of members from his own training site, Upswing Poker, that tracked the action of every hand played, which was then inputted into multiple spreadsheets.
And from Negreanu’s point of view, the team kept Polk ahead of the curve.
“Every Monday he came back prepared,” said Negreanu. “He seemed to make some adjustments because there were always holes that we were looking to exploit. There were definitely some. Then when he would sort of get hammered in that spot, he’d go into the lab, come out of the weekend and okay, that hole is no longer valid.”
The match was inspired thanks to the rocky personal history that they have with one another with some intense needling back-and-forth on social media. By the end of the match, however, the two seemingly developed a mutual respect for one another, even swapping hand histories the night before the final battle.
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Tuesday study session for the finale working with @DougPolkVids going over all the hands we played and sharing war stories.
Weird.
— Daniel Negreanu (@RealKidPoker) February 2, 2021
Polk came into the match as the betting favorite. By the end of the match, however, he was impressed by the strides Negreanu had made to his game.
“He did a really impressive job with a lot of the stuff he did,” said Polk. “I did not think he would play this well at all… By the end, he was doing so many sharp things.”
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In Polk’s opinion, Negreanu had become so proficient at the game that there weren’t many poker players that could beat him at the format. An impressive feat seeing that Negreanu had very little experience playing heads-up no-limit cash games before taking on Polk.
“If you’re not a heads-up pro, he’s going to beat you,” said Polk about Negreanu. “He’s going to beat you. You’re not going to know as much as him. He will have better sizes, better ranges, better strategies. He just will understand the game better. Outside of the class of high-stakes heads-up pros, Negreanu is going to be one of the best players in the world.”
Outside of the seven figures, Polk also won a sizable amount in side action that was on the match. It was rumored that Bill Perkins had one of the largest bets against Polk and based on a Wednesday night tweet, it appears that he definitely lost some cash, albeit an unknown amount.
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Read your friking messages or I'm paying VanessaSelbst instead of you!!!!
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— Bill Perkins (Guy) (@bp22) February 4, 2021