Doug Polk Podcast

I just had a very long, very tough conversation with Daniel Negreanu, Phil Galfond, Matt Berkey, Joe Ingram, Will Jaffe, Eric Froelich, and Fernando Habegger (Jnandez). There's been a lot of poker drama and controversies. Let's get into it.0:00 - Joe Ingram joins 26:24 - Will Jaffe joins 55:23 - Eric Froehlic joins 1:12:20 - Daniel Negreanu joins 1:56:06 - Shaun Deeb joins 2:08:30 - Andrew Lichtenberger (LuckyChewy) joins 2:19:37 - Matt Berkey joins 2:56:55 ...

Today I'm joined by Ryan Feldman and Nick Vertucci from Hustler Casino Live to bring us a huge update about their upcoming Million Dollar Cash Game. This will be one of the biggest No Limit Hold'em poker streams of all time, if not the very biggest. Save your spot in the upcoming tournament course on Upswing Poker here: https://upswingpoker.com/road-to-victory-pre-reg 0:00 Intro 1:22 The $1M Buy-in game 14:10 Players announced so far 14:54 Stanley Tang, JR, Double M 2...

Garrett Adelstein joins Doug Polk to discuss everything from the Jack-Four hand to Nik Airball's recent comments

There's a bitter feud within the Hustler Casino Live community playing out over Twitter. Nik Airball and other players have had some not so positive things to say about former HCL regular Garrett Adelstein. Nik Airball joins Doug Polk to flesh out his perspective. 0:00 Intro 2:22 Nik Airball joins 2:58 Garrett being "banned" 13:27 Garrett's game selection 20:16 Garrett's player rating system 26:55 Garrett's tweets 34:54 Nik's heads-up challenge 39:00 Th...

The man who beat Phil Hellmuth at his own game, Eric Persson, joins Doug Polk to discuss Eric's infamous match vs the Poker Brat, speech play on High Stakes Poker, and playing in big private games.0:00 Intro1:33 Eric joins3:18 Phil Hellmuth and the HU match19:40 The hand vs Garrett27:30 Playing on live streams36:40 Speech play44:24 High Stakes Poker49:29 Private games, How to get in?1:05:59 Managing casinos/cardrooms, More on private games1:23:07 Outro

Daniel Negreanu rejoins the Doug Polk Podcast to discuss the cheating allegations, wild stories, and comical events that have been the talk of the poker world recently.

Cash game pro Gary "GazzyB" Blackwood joins Doug Polk to discuss the ever-changing state of No Limit Hold'em games, player tendencies in 2022, making Upswing Lab content, hand histories from High Stakes Poker, and more.0:00 Intro2:13 Gary joins, Hellmuth Q4o hand: LOAT?13:34 Poker in 2022, Solvers and Studying33:40 HSP Hand History reviews: Antonius vs Adelstein50:15 Negreanu vs JRB1:02:55 Tilly vs Hultman1:16:13 Personal life: Tornado, Vlogging, Poker Stories1:35:08 Outro

Thousands have cast their votes for the best poker players of all time. Doug Polk sits down with Kane Kalas and Mike Brady to reveal the results of the vote and the top 5 lists sent in by a number of well-known pros (including Brian Rast, Daniel Cates, Daniel Negreanu, and Andrew Neeme).0:00 Intro3:09 Mike and Kane join4:45 Top lists from: Jason Koon, Dan Zack, DNegs33:55 Top lists from: Jungleman, Neeme, Rabichow1:09:00 Top lists from: Rast, Kruk, Strelitz1:58:45 Top lists from: Jaka, Blackw...

Thousands of people voted for the best poker player of all time. Doug Polk returns to reveal the results and debate the top 20 with help from Kane Kalas and Mike Brady. 0:00 Intro2:08 Mike and Kane join8:04 Notable snubs, 8-game and online underrated?29:47 TOP-20 (not in order): Dwan, Reese, Seidel1:02:55 Hellmuth, Chan, Negreanu1:37:40 Haxton, Holz, Polk1:57:50 Antonius, Isildur1, Doyle, Jungleman2:29:20 Bonomo, Ivey, LLinusLLove3:01:05 Galfond, Koon, Ungar, Chidwick3:34:36 Outro, VOTE:...

Doug Polk embarks on a 2 week-long journey to figure out who is the best poker player of all time (and he's going to need your help). This week, he runs through the list of candidates. Make your voice heard here: https://upswingpoker.com/vote/0:00 Intro2:41 The list explained10:15 Mike joins15:18 Getting into the players: Schindler, Petrangelo, Kurganov, Spirit Rock, Limitless27:18 Chan, Luckychewy, Cloutier, Adelstein, Reese36:42 Harman, Mercier, Esfandiari, Rast, Seed46:39 Ungar, ChaoR...

Doug Polk is joined by poker vloggers Brad Owen and Andrew Neeme to discuss their new poker room venture in Texas, future expansion, and more.0:00 Intro1:34 Andrew and Brad join3:25 The Lodge deal23:30 Naru Self Tanner, TikTok29:40 Brad's growth on YouTube34:02 Everything on Poker Vlogs54:28 Poker goals, Cash vs Tournaments1:12:45 YouTube: Revenue, Ads, Dislike-button, etc.1:28:02 Upcoming Poker vloggers, Twitch vs Youtube1:36:43 The Global Poker Awards1:40:53 Lodge meet up week, Poker in Tex...

Chess Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura joins Doug Polk to discuss the threat (if any) that artificial intelligence poses to both chess and poker.0:00 Intro1:10 Hikaru joins6:44 AI in Chess, World Chess Championship19:52 Difficulty of making money from Chess24:23 Hikaru's interest in Poker31:16 Poker/Chess Streams, Solvers in Poker42:38 Omaha vs Hold'em, Hikaru gets a solver lesson52:31 Possible changes to the World Chess Championship?1:01:17 Risk taking in Chess1:06:28 Can Alireza challenge Magnus...

Today I'm joined by Martin Zamani to cover some truly insane allegations about Bryn Kenney. This story has it all: ghosting, collusion, cheating, RTA, warlords, shamans, frog poison, acid, smuggling, and much more!0:00 Intro1:13 Martin joins, Meeting Bryn and getting staked8:30 Horse collusion, Bryn could see Martins screen?19:00 RTA Bans, The HE22 account, Lauren Roberts27:51 Ghosting, Mark Herm33:49 The Shaman, Frog poison rituals46:52 Multi-accounting, GG's Agent program52:50 The Psychic, ...

Dan Bilzerian joins Doug Polk to discuss his poker past, playing in high stakes private games, the source of his fortune, and more.0:00 Intro1:16 Dan joins, offering to bet $1 million18:04 Dan's receipts23:45 Dan teaches Doug how to make money in poker29:40 Dan's online poker history37:32 Where did Dan's money come from?44:00 Is Dan a Poker Pioneer?51:20 Winning $186k in 3 weeks at 10/2056:00 Fan Questions1:11:09 Is Dan playing a character?1:25:33 Dan's biggest regret, Future goals, Vegas sho...

Long-time poker pro and CardRunners founder Taylor Caby joins Doug Polk to talk about playing poker in the boom years, starting the first major poker training site, and more. 0:00 Intro1:14 Taylor joins, CardRunners/Upswing12:26 Online poker in 200320:44 Online poker today34:07 Quitting poker, Starting DraftDay, DFS talk44:23 Establish The Run51:00 Are training sites ruining the games?56:40 Building niche communities1:04:17 Doug gets into self tanners1:13:03 CryptoPunks1:25:22 Crypto mar...

Main Event runner-up David Williams joins Doug Polk to get you up-to-speed on the 2021 WSOP so far. Topics include a Rio hotel room robbery, notable winners and more.0:00 Intro0:54 David joins5:40 What has the WSOP been like so far?17:31 The Phil Hellmuth blowup31:30 Robberies at the Rio45:35 The Ladies event, Importance of role models1:04:05 Kelly Minkin re-registration issue1:18:10 Legends passing away, Aging1:26:13 Outro

Poker pro Bart Hanson joins Doug Polk to talk about the wild Texas poker scene, the 2021 WSOP, and betting huge on the 2020 elections.0:00 Intro1:04 Bart joins, The housing market8:46 Moving out of California, pros and cons16:40 Poker in Texas21:54 Should Doug start a poker room29:41 San Antonio, Does Bart still play?33:56 Banning the Europeans?!, Game protection43:23 WSOP 2021, Mark-up Police49:44 Difficulty of playing live MTT's for a living54:46 WSOP's problems with Covid1:05:33 Bart's WSO...

Former poker pro and early cryptocurrency adopter Bryan Pellegrino (aka PrimordialAA) joins Doug Polk to talk about NFTs, artificial intelligence in poker, and his new project Layer Zero. The first 1 hour and 2 minutes is all about crypto, the last 39 minutes is poker related stuff.0:00 Intro0:44 Bryan joins2:20 Layer Zero17:42 Oracles, Chainlink26:55 When will Layer Zero launch31:55 NFT's41:20 Investing in to the crypto market today47:46 Avalance, Polygon55:24 ETH Gas price, Solana1:02:09 Th...

Live cash game specialist Garrett Adelstein joins Doug Polk to talk about the state of live poker, balancing life with poker, folding the second nut straight, and more. 0:00 Intro0:46 Garrett joins, Marriage/relationships, Survivor12:30 Balancing life and poker23:52 Mental health 29:20 Current state of live poker34:14 Online vs live, Cash game streams45:40 GTO vs Exploit55:45 The identical T7 folds1:01:11 Playing aggressive, Solvers, Working hard1:17:00 Mark-up, Scammers1:35:47 Gett...

Chess streamer Alexandra Botez joins Doug Polk to talk about chess, poker, and which game has smarter players.0:51 Alexandra joins1:43 Living in Austin, Making content13:54 The Chess Hustlers, Did AI ruin Chess?21:07 How to start studying Chess or Poker25:21 Poker players vs Chess players, Tells vs strategy35:20 The Chess Twitch boom, Would Chess benefit from a luck factor?42:00 The World Chess Championship, catering to newbs51:17 Alexandra's thoughts on Poker, being competitive1:02:00 Mike M...

World Series of Poker Staple Norman Chad joins Doug Polk to discuss the (potentially) upcoming series and more. 0:42 Norman joins2:00 The ex-wife jokes, dealers, poker in California8:45 WSOP 202118:42 Is PokerGo good for the industry?25:45 WSOP on CBS Sports, Norman+Lon, Jamie Kerstetter36:42 Who could replace Norman and Lon?43:10 Making mistakes, glorifying HendonMob stats, rake49:44 Why is NL Hold'em THE game?, WPT, Mike Sexton57:02 The WSOP Main Event, what tournaments will Norman pla...

Early cryptocurrency adopter Bryan Micon joins Doug Polk to talk about mostly NFTs, as well as other crypto stuff and the 2021 World Series of Poker.0:50 Bryan joins 3:40 NFT markets, Flexing, Rare Pepes 29:15 Where does the value of NFT's come from? 35:05 Will all this have a negative effect? 44:32 What happened to CryptoKitties? 48:00 Selling NOTHING?, where is the line, NBA Top Shots 55:10 Thoughts on the crypto market, Bitcoin Cash 1:13:01 MarketMania, g...

FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver joins Doug Polk to talk about poker, politics, COVID, Twitter beefs and more.0:52 Nate joins2:55 Political betting, FiveThirtyEight vs sports betting markets11:00 2020 Primaries, Superdelegates16:29 Polarization of the US population22:30 WSOP Covid restrictions34:28 Nonsensical Covid policies41:42 Nate's upcoming book on gambling/risk46:22 Nate's poker background, talking all things poker1:25:38 The Nassim Taleb beef1:29:35 Why is Nate trending on Twitter t...

Mike "The Mouth" Matusow joins Doug Polk to share his thoughts on modern poker strategy, the 2021 WSOP, scammer stories from the early 2000s and more. Timestamps: 0:45 Mike joins 6:28 What is Mike playing nowadays 10:31 Matusows thoughts on GTO/solvers 20:50 What happened with UltimateBet? 27:01 WSOP 2021, Covid/Vaccination 38:06 Should the WSOP be cancelled? 55:44 Reminiscing early 2000s, scammer stories 1:17:30 Mikes biggest mistakes, growing up ...

The one and only Phil Hellmuth joins Doug Polk to talk about his run of heads-up wins and more.1:08 Hellmuth joins 3:25 Phil's Heads Up Duel win streak 13:28 Hellmuth's success in big field MTT's vs High Rollers 20:40 White Magic vs GTO 29:50 Hand histories from the DNegs match 44:48 Upcoming match vs Tom Dwan 47:15 Is Phil reasonable? 58:12 Doug's amazing fold vs Phil 1:05:50 High Stakes Poker 1:09:08 World Series of Poker & Covid 1:20:33...

Ethereum developer Mudit Gupta joins Doug Polk to talk about what really went down with the biggest DeFi hack in the history of cryptocurrency. 0:38 Mudit joins 1:54 Rundown of the hack 8:09 Did this hack use a new strategy? 14:25 Are DeFi projects really decentralized? 21:11 Bridges/Multi-blockchain 28:52 Should we be concerned about the hack? 33:35 Did the hacker dox himself? 41:14 Hackers plans, how much money will he keep?47:30 Mudit's final thought...

Former poker pro and current rich guy Mike "Timex" McDonald joins Doug Polk to discuss topics that would probably make no sense to your grandma. DeFi, NFTs, cryptopunks, oh my!0:31 Intro 2:22 Mike joins 4:53 Crypto market today and in the future 15:17 Equity vs Tokens, FTT/FTX, Uniswap 30:28 NFT's, CryptoPunks 51:18 What CryptoPunks could perform well in the future? 58:25 Collateralized and Fractional NFT's? 1:09:22 Problems with an NFT representing a ...

If you like hearing about Bitcoin, you're gonna like this one. Doug Polk is joined by the CEO of Riot Blockchain and former high stakes poker pro Jason Les. The duo takes a deep dive into a number of Bitcoin-related topics, including environmental concerns, mining, the recent China ban and more. TIMESTAMPS: 0:33 Intro 5:56 Upcoming podcast schedule 8:00 Jason Les joins 9:20 Bitcoin/market in the last 6-12 months 15:00 Future of Bitcoin 29:13 Smart contracts ...

The elusive Daniel Negreanu joins Doug to talk about playing heads-up versus Phil Hellmuth, his recent victories in the PokerGO Open, and his pick for best tournament player in the world. Plus, Doug reveals a timing tell he had on Daniel.Sign up for the Upswing Lab to access Doug's new module when it comes out: https://upswingpoker.com/the-poker-lab-coaching/Timestamps:0:00 Intro 1:15 Upswing plug 2:00 Daniel joins 5:32 Daniel / Hellmuth match 23:10 Jake Schindler 29:...

What is the current state of cheating in poker? Are things like preflop charts and HUDs considered cheating - and if not, should they be? Doug Polk sits down with poker pro Olivier Busquet to flesh out a heated discussion that started on the wonderful website Twitter dot com. Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 5:52 - Olivier Joins, discusses preflop chart opinions 9:38 - History of preflop charts 13:28 - Lack of transparency in poker industry 23:45 - HUD use 24:...

Young poker pro Landon Tice agreed to pay businessman Bill Perkins $3,600 for every 100 hands the two played in a $200/$400 heads-up challenge. The match was meant to last 20,000 hands, but Landon threw in the towel less than 25% of the way to the finish line. Doug Polk is joined by Jason Mo, Kevin Rabichow and Bill Perkins to parse out the not-so-epic conclusion to the match. Timestamps: 0:00 to 3:53 - Intro 3:53 to 43:32 - Jason Mo43:33 to 1:39:34 - Kevin Rabichow ...

Doug Polk explains what you can expect from the podcast.