What Happened to Doug Polk?
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- Опубликовано: 7 июн 2024
- Witness poker history in "What Happened to Doug Polk?" as we revisit the largest pot ever played at The Lodge. Bart covers the gripping street-by-street hand analysis where our caller faces off against poker pro Doug Polk. Dive into the strategic plays and crucial decisions that led to this dramatic hand.
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Detailed breakdown of each betting street in the record-setting pot against Doug Polk.
Insights into advanced poker tactics and decision-making in high-pressure situations.
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0:00 - Intro
3:37 - Preflop
8:50 - Flop
12:30 - Turn
15:34 - River
17:17 - Hero Decision
18:36 - Reveal
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Thanks for all the love guys 🫶🫶🫶… I called in to the show with this hand because it’s the biggest hand I’ve ever played and I thought it would be fun for you guys to know my thought process from start to finish in this sick hand. Always fun to talk about and dissect a hand this big 🙂… all of you grinders watching and reading this just know that I was playing 2/5 NL 5 years ago. So put in the work, be consistent, disciplined, humble and persistent and you can be in a similar spot 5 years from today 😉… GL to you all and thanks for all the 🫶
Alex! Thx for the call and this post, very inspiring. I’m a lodge 1/3 player and here’s my question, u say u play a lot of PLO, do u find that to be more profitable than no limit? Or why do u prefer PLO? Thx
Alex that was sick!!!!!!
What a great hand to review Alecs, fun to listen to you break it down. Very much appreciate you telling your story of grinding 2/5 5 years ago, Im a year into my 1/3 2/5 grind and its definitely frustrating at times. I'll be at the Lodge for their August mega series, and grinding some 2/5, maybe 5/10 there, perhaps we will get to meet. Always a fan of your play, so disciplined yet humble and you make some hard folds that I always remember when I'm facing some big bets.
Congratulations y felicidades desde Florida, primo! Nosotros jugamos en el 2022 par de veces en Orange City Racing & Card Club no se si te acuerdas (tenias un amigo tuyo contigo que es jugador de torneos durante el WSOP en Las Vegas; yo me llamo Rafael y hasta tenía tu # de teléfono pero se me perdió cuando cambie de phone providers, lol). Anyway, yo vi el livestream en vivo when that sick hand went down with my homegirl and I immediately started freaking out telling her "I know that guy! I played with him at Orange City once, lol!"
@alex you’re living my dream bro. Playing $2/$5 right now. Did you build your bankroll enough to play these high stakes just from poker alone?
Wow for some reason I never expected Alex to sound like this, then again doesn’t talk much at the table but seems like a super humble and stand up guy
If he talked the way he stares skyscrapers would crumble
He definitely sucks that's for sure. Imagine being so stupid that you think Doug Polk is so unbalanced he only has AA here for value and he has all suited wheels for Bluffs. That's somedmoothbrained shit man.
I like Alex on the Lodge feed. He’s so quiet though that it’s weird to hear him talking so much!
True. He mostly just glares at people. 😂
This was a fascinating call and yes, it's great to hear the thoughts from a guy who usually just sits there in silence.
@@OneEyedJack01he doesn’t fuck order like many of the others. It’s war 👿 on the fleet for him. Cool thought that he sounds like a likeable dude off the tables
Nik Airball folding K10o is probably the biggest mystery of this video 5:08
😂
Why a bunch of internet trolls who probably play ABC poker think they are better than Nik is thr biggest mystery.
@@davidculhane4388 I'm not a troll, but all the Internet trolls combined haven't lost as much money as Nik Airball has 😭😭😭😭
@@St3. Nik Airball is obviously a plant. He's capable of playing at a professional level but they have him randomly punt 6 figure pots to guys like Rampage
@@DanielSong39 I'm not sure if that's the case but I've watched a lot of hands from him and he just doesn't seem like a great player. This isn't just extreme bluffs, it's his whole game, he's made bad folds, other bad reads...etc
Also I highly doubt he's losing on purpose.
What would you do if the turn was the Qh? Are you calling turn to take the 5th Street Chicken approach mentioned at 19:39?
What about the Jc?
@@calinator51 I wonder what a worse card for us to continue on would be, Qx or Jc. I think it’s easier to call on the Jc imo bc he’s weighted more towards pairs + some Axs, he can only have A4cc/A5cc as reasonable 5b bluffs pre (since 3c/2c came OTF)
Although I think he def would 5b AKs a fair amount of the time and probably AQs at least some of the time, so yeah Jc turn could be tricky. Vs Doug tho I don’t think we can fold a set especially if river is a blank
Really sick hand and very impressive that he has the balls to just call the turn in such a massive spot
Alex is an absolute killer, love watching him play. Very good at reading opponents.
Who the fuck is Alex?
@@Love1isallThe guy calling
guess this is biggest pot explained in crushlivepoker?
Wow can’t imagine playing these stakes 🥴
Alex is my favorite player to root for on the stream. He always plays fearless.
Alex is indeed fearless. I have to disagree with him that Doug only has AA as a “value hand” when Doug 5-bets in this spot. I think Doug would 5-bet AA, KK, QQ, AK suited.. maybe even AQ and AJ suited.. to go along with his suited wheel-aces.
I think it’s dangerous and foolhardy to think a player of Doug’s caliber wouldn’t have a balanced 5-bet range here.
@@supersmoo7377I think QQ and AK suited are too wide for 5bet value preflop. With AK suited and QQ, you are almost never going to get worse to call you. If you have JJ and face a 5bet, you’re folding.
Fearlessly
@@joeuser633 No. Fearless. The Taylor Swift album.
@@supersmoo7377 LOL You think Polk is 5-betting QQ? Say you don't understand poker without saying you don't understand poker.
So cool to see Alex on the show. One of the craziest hands
I have seen Alex play live at The Lodge, great player! Would love to watch him play PLO. Cheers Alex🥂
I think Alex is an absolute Killer. Unless you watch the Lodge Stream, you have no idea who he is. But from what I understand he was a Former Poker Dealer that built a monster stack by grinding. I think he is a top handful of players.
Yes, he was a dealer. Nice guy. Crazy to see him in the nosebleeds. Wishing him all the best.
Kinda reminds me of Mike Sexton and Bart Hanson, best known for other contributions to poker but they could really play too
Alex is such at badass at the tables. One of my favorite players to watch. Awesome to hear his thought process, especially the part about hesitating on the river. Love Doug’s hand, too. Boss shove. Sometimes you gotta empty the clip and lose. Great breakdown Bart!
I see the problem.Doug missed the 5 on the river.
Remember when doug retired from poker?
Bluff.. doug balancing his range
Never let them know your next move.
Which time?
Lol
Since retirement he opened a card room and plays daily
I thought Doug only had A4/5 of clubs there. A 4/5 on the river or a club could have been a brutal card.
No, Doug had As4s
That was a really interesting tidbit, about three queens being the weakest hand that can remain the nuts after the river.
Oh this is Alex! Really great player. I love the way he stares down opponents like he’s suspicious, whether he’s nutted or not
Doug Polk just bluffed A HOUSE. Let that sink in.
I think it's sad to see. I've played poker too much and it destroyed me mentally and financially. It's a sick game.
@@uhhmike I wouldn't be too sad... Doug appears to be a successful young businessman who isn't playing above his head, and doesn't punt like Rampage.
what 5 bet hand folds on this runout? Only AK
It really feels that A2-A5s has now become an automatic 4-5 bet every single time on live tv. Screw being balanced i guess lol
You can always hear Doug coming because his ballz CLANK!
Not at end but I'd be insanely nervous with these stakes lol
Alex seems like a smart player and good-natured guy
nh hero. this hand is mainly interesting because of how high the stakes are. all streets are pretty standard imo. only street i would consider playing different is to raise flop to deny equity from Doug's overs and flush draws. hero unblocks lots of flush draws, AK/AQ. i would play AA/KK same. calling QQ without club almost always, QQ with club consider folding sometimes.
I've always thought that Alex looks like Nacho Vargo from Breaking Bad/BCS
It would be interesting to analyse what Hero does with TT/QQ on this runout and action
Not convinced hero can play pre-flop that way with TT, but given no A no K and all (plausible) draws missed probably needs to call down.
According to him he would call down since Doug has more bluffs in his 5BET range
Exactly ! That’s why this hand history is so fucking boring and a waste of our time. As soon as the turn is a J the whole hand is emptied of any possible depth it could have had.
Wow this is insane, hearing alex makes the win and $ so much more real - crazy hand and scoop Alex
Can someone explain the set of queens thing to me? Clearly not enough plo experiences to understand h
Is this "death stare" Alex?
The very one 🤣
Alex is an incredible player
Never heard that a set of QQ was the lowest possible Nutted hand in Holdem… that’s actually a pretty cool and useful fact when navigating some turns.
It's pretty rarely relevant since A) you could play for days on end without seeing a board where QQ actually is the nuts and B) it doesn't matter when tons of the nuts aren't actually possible (like the straights in this hand). The real takeaway is really just to remember that no matter how comfy you feel with two pair or a set, there are virtually always going to be at least a handful of iffy rivers.
@@Jermo484 I hate Two Pairs. Best looking Losing Hands. I still play them, but there is usually some nut hand that is probable when holding them.
Did I mention I hate two pair? I cannot emphasize it enough.
I Never thought about that, but that‘s really interesting.
The worst hand you can have on the flop which is 100% guaranteed to win on the river is A5s if you flop a straight flush.
Also quite interesting imo.
@@Jermo484 "virtually always at least a handful of" 😂❤
@@pugsnhogz I don't get it
I just realized I've never heard Alex's voice/accent on the stream. Kinda surprising.
From a video with this title I expected you to be doing a deep dive about how Vanessa Selbst got her identity stolen
Alex knows poker. I could always tell
Doug Polk 5 bet range may contain non-nut hands if you haven't figured already lol
I bet A-5 suited is in there.
@@freddiehigdon3261 yes, they mentioned that. A-5 suited is capable of hitting the nuts often with the A high flush.
Great episode Bart, I’m sure I speak for a lot of the viewers when I say Alex is a fan favourite👍
If you take two zeros off these numbers, do you play this the same way?
I like the way Alex plays-he's got great game. Killer stare too.
While it's true that QQQ is the lowest possible nut hand on the river, it is NOT true that Alex knew JJ wasn't going to be the nuts on the river. The case J makes the nuts.
I believe what I said in the video was that “if the board doesn’t pair, JJJ will not be the nuts.”
Alex is fun to watch
Lmao can’t believe Alex called in that’s so funny
Huge cooler. What can you do?
I didn’t realize Alex was capable of talking this much 😭
LOL
took me a while to figure out it was him!
Hello Doug =)
Lol @ $45k "trivial call" pre
Wow i cant take it. Insane so long
I would have loved to see how this hand played out if Alex didn't hit that set. Is he calling of his entire stack that deep with a pair of jacks?
You'd have to assume he shouldn't be calling or Doug's bluff is a horrific punt. Say the turn was like a 6h, if Alex calls there, this is basically the worst hand he'll ever have, so if Doug can't even get him to fold that with a river jam, then it's an awful line. Just assuming Doug isn't taking an atrocious line since he's better than us.
If you listened to the end of the video, he says he's very likely going to have to. He's only worried about AA betting for value (6 combos). He doesn't think Doug 5 bets KK or QQ (just calls Alex's 4 bet), so the hand that he's really stickhandling around on the turn and river is the suited wheel draw (A-5, A-4 etc.)
@@RobRochon There's absolutely no chance Doug is 5 betting that many wheel aces and not 5 betting any premiums besides AA - that's horribly unbalanced. Like his initial comment that Doug has a ton of suited wheel aces is wildly inaccurate.
@@Jermo484 you haven't been watching these players at these stakes enough then, because that seems to be the trend from what I've been seeing, and that's what Alex and Bart agreed on in this discussion. Of course players might balance their play out with the exception but you can't make reads based on the exception. They said that he's calling the 4 bet for KK and QQ for value in this situation due to the effective stack size. So what do you want me to say?
@@RobRochon I mean, they're not perfect either? There is simply 0 chance Doug has a 5 bet range that has AA, A5s, A4s, A3s, A2s and nothing else. He's way, way too knowledgeable to have such an atrociously unbalanced, way too bluff heavy range.
And if that IS his range and Alex knows it, Alex should be jamming it in against every 5 bet he ever makes.
I don't understand range. I'm pretty sure my range is 7-2 off to AA
👍I basically never open
If this was Doug analyzing he would put Doug on "Bad Reg"
Hi
I cant even imagine they are playing 1 hand of poker that is 14 years of my pay
Oof Doug is ruthless. Would've had a tough River decision if you don't hit that set.
Yup. Imagine turn came Q and river came Kc. Really tough call.
I played PLO in Houston at a little 1-3 game. Crazy action. Many pots over 1K . Most flops were 20-30 to go and 4-6 players. I played in the daytime and early evening on 3 weekdays, so I can only imagine what it would be later and over the weekend.
Did Wesley look at Doug's hand?
can someone explain to this dope why 3 queens is the "lowest nut hand" on the river of a texas hold em game?
QQQ is the worst nut hand you can have, because it possible to space out all the cards so that you can't make a straight. In this case, Q J 7 6 2. JJJ can never be the nuts, because you could have J T 6 5 2 and someone could still have a straight.
Yeah the lowest non-connected board is 2378Q
@Melvinvanharn @DoubleBassX2 gotcha, thanks guys!
@@zeptime3473it doesn’t have anything to do with this hand at all. It’s quite literally makes the lowest nut hand in the game of hold em … a set of Q’s.
I retracted my comment because it was ignorant! 🤣thanks for the clarification all ya all!
Hard to feel bad for Doug. That was a donkey shove. Alex kills it. He just quietly rakes every night.
Doug Polk 1m journey starts now
mehh. Says he isn't folding in hindsight after J hits. Good hand, fun to win big.
What a punt by Doug actually so so so bad
He really defended himself for taking 5 seconds to double check he had the nuts and call? $700k pot bro ur ok Haha doug also will be losing 13k for being a NIT lmao
I still remember when Doug the Donk tried to bluff one of the best players ever with nothing. Not even a draw 🤣🤣🤣
barts like idk i wouldve folded to a 5bet
I’m amazed he 5 bet with A-4 there yeah it suited I think Doug Polk deserved to lose here way too loose in my opinion he basically bloated a pot pre flop which made him committed to playing a big pot with marginal holding
lol it’s funny i’m sure the caller is the better player
i didnt imagine Alex to sound like this (voice wise). Guy always plays with that evil scowl so i imagined someone more douchey..lol)
Weakest nuts is top set QQ
Alex is by far the best player I've ever seen on this stream. His "soul reads" are ridiculous.
DOUGLAS QUAID
I saw him playing 10/25 at encore about a month ago. Was he back in mass again?
Yeah.. last month
What a waste of time. Hero hits his set, easy call. Against an elite pro u should have shoved turn lucky doug is a punter so calling the turn made sense. If it were me i would have shut down n check fold river. I know u have a big pair after the turn call. But if u jammed on the turn against me, id have to call it off on a draw.
You should've asked Alex how his "shot" taking went at Bonita Springs Poker Room.
How did it go?
???
I play PLO all the time as well, albeit smaller. I don’t think I’d want to play against this guy though at high stakes, he sounds pretty smart.
Doug "the Jolk" Polk... NH
I mean this was a big pot and all, but why did Alex call in? To brag? He didn’t have any questions and he claimed every move made was standard.
he called in because poker streamers have turned into MLM. Everybody washing each other's back. Doug goes to game with Bart, and refers his friend Alex to call in the show. It's networking.
@@jackbauer789 yup and we all just chop it up after the game and the call-in show
@@CrushlivePoker I struck a nerve, huh buddy? Jack 1-0 Bartholomew
To be technical it’s not a “clip” it’s called a magazine lol
THESE ARENT CLIPS. THEY’RE MAGAZINES.
Will you be Casting one day on Hustler Casino Million Dollar game?
Remind me never to play poker with this guy.
Polk doesn't need poker any more. His Bitcoin is worth about $200 million.
Poor Doug always on losing side of history
Nice fact that a set of QQ is the lowest possible nuts in hold’em.
The worst hand you can have on the flop which is 100% guaranteed to win on the river is A5s if you flop a straight flush.
Also quite interesting imo.
Couldn't 5-2 flop a straight flush and be 100% guaranteed to win on the river?
@@gabrielrockman No. If the Board is A34, then KQ,KJ, KT,QJ and QT could make a royal flush.
If the Board is 346, T7, T8, 78, etc. could make a better straight flush
@@manu1444 So then 6-2 suited on a 5-4-3 board would be guaranteed to be the nuts on the river?
@@gabrielrockman Oh yeah, you are right. I just read that on a poker page that it‘s A5s, but they were wrong lol
I didn‘t think too much about it
@@manu1444 They meant a 5 high straight flush is the worst. Not the standing hand
I saw this one live. VNH. I would cream my pants if i ever got to these stakes and scooped a pot worth hundreds and hundreds of thousands.
DP playing like Nik Airbutthead
On the one hand it's like what is this? This guy wants to relive Doug blasting off for a quarter mil? On the other hand, I would want to relive that shit too.
Haven’t even seen half this video and I’m guessing Doug just punts $. The new vanessa selspt. If he played Phil Hellmuth style bc it’s him he would crush and if hellmuth played Doug’s way he might win in cash lol
solver jaming pure on A4, 65, 54 dd combos. pretty sick doug found this with A4ss
1:37 Isnt asking a poker player what they do for a living a bit of a low blow?
I know this is crazy. But I’m pretty sure I played with the caller last night at bellagio.
Wow that is so amazingly not the least bit interesting in any way.
@@slowery43it was a two five game
@@AtPEACE77yeah that was me 😁… was playing with my gf. She loves poker also lol.. what seat # were you?
@@alexjauregui4706 I flopped the set of deuces against you
Bart, your a very respectful guy, your no homer
15" POKER HAAAAARRRRDDD
Polk is not good at poker ever since he won that stupid onedrop he’s smart to get ppl to back em and get him is roll
Doug played A4 suited this way, so he might have also played Q10 suited the same way...
AXs are 4B/5B much more frequently and naturally than QTs.
Yes to balance the low number of nutted hands. They work better than Q10ss for card removal (of the Ace) and can make a wheel.
So Q10ss is never a 5 bet.
If he hit runner runner so be it u gotta pay him off in that spot. More bluffs than nutted hands. Gotta call.
@@webguy943 good point
Dougs play was very, very good. The hero in this hand says he would call off without the set but I'm not sure- and Doug certainly thought about how much pressure he could put on the hero at these stakes.
I also disagree that Doug has more bluffs than value here. Doug does this with AA way more than bluffs in a real life situation. The hero simply hit a set and basically couldn't lose. Doug knows that hero likely doesn't have AA with his blocker.
Hero is a good player, I just don't think Doug's play/balls are getting the respect they deserve.
No, you should definitely call off with JJ on day six of the World Series main event when you’re obviously up against two better hands who showed nothing but immense strength… God Poker stupid 🤦♂️
this is a cash game, not a tournament hand.
Wow. How long can you talk about a poker hand. Waist of time to watch
you are so bad, you dont have a right to talk to a player like alex.
At least he lost the nit button
Is Alex a big fish?? Nic Airball type of player??
Do you think Nik Airball can talk about poker the way Alex did in this call? I don’t think Nik can.
@@supersmoo7377 I typed this comment 39 seconds into the video…. lol… then realized who Alex was and wanted to delete this post. Alex isn’t impulsive.
turn is a shove in my book 100%
In this context against Polk, I think a shove would be a massive mistake and would lose 150k in this particular hand.
Then DP folds
Never a turn jam against a competent aggressive pro. Against a nit yeah jam cause it’s always AA and they’re never folding but if Doug is bluffing let him blast river his bluffs probably don’t have much equity anyways
it’s a pure call
"Your book" ?!?!? hahaha you have absolutely zero credibility, you don't now nor ever have played at thes stakes so nobody cares what you think
from what i've seen over the past couple years, anointing doug polk with the title of "poker pro" might be a bit of a stretch. i will say though that this video substantiates for me what i was already thinking, that Alex is probably the best and deepest poker thinker i've watched playing at the lodge. as for doug polk, i guess if nik "24 minute" airball can be called a pro than doug fits there too....
Doug was the best heads up player in the world at one point. He might not be the best anymore but you cannot argue that he doesn't have the bankroll and skill to be a high level pro.
Bart totally out of his league with these stakes
Doesn't he do some live stream commentary of games at these stakes?
I have commentated on games of these stakes for at least 200 hours (of the 8000 hours of total commentary and another 15,000 hours of playing 5/10+ ). --Bart
lol you got his attention with that one 😂😂