On 2p2 its a bit different as most of us are effectively anonymous nobodies.

The well known players on twitter have a lot of poker recs following them, and base their opinions on what their favourite players say.

Doug has a duty to be careful about what he says. He has a lot of power of the general consciousness of the industry and he can form or change opinions with a well produced video. Take the Alec Torelli scumminess - even tho I visit NVG every day I never even bothered to click on that thread. Doug rightly showed the poker world what a calculated POS Alec was - and subsequently AT is now facing the consequences of a ruined brand and will probably have comments made to him every time he is at a poker table for the next couple of years at least.

Didn't see a single bad original tweet about John Hesp on Doug's twitter yet but maybe I missed something. Quite the contrary, I only heard all of Doug's comments how Hesp is great for the game and how he rooted for him etc. etc.

Would be great if you could post sources i.e. tweets that confirm your claim. Thanks!

I agree but you have to admit the glasses were a good call since she has "Ivey eyes" when she's thinking.

Also, please break down the JRB hand where he folded AA on the flop on your vlog.

If it's true Robl is backing JRB's play, then would JRB essentially be playing for 2x his stack size? I mean, if Robl stacked JRB with a set vs. AA, then Robl gets all of JRB's chips, and JRB still owes Robl the same amount to the extent there is any makeup involved in the staking deal. JRB was clearly playing with scared money to fold AA on flop of Q32 rainbow.

Based on that logic wouldn't Robl have a wider range since the price he would be getting would be better than against a villain who he doesn't have a stake in? If Robl has a wider range, wouldn't JRB have an obligation to continue lighter than against a normal villain?

One would think so. Which is what makes JRB's scared fold of AA so puzzling.

Between UpswingPoker and the DougPolk youtube channels, the maximum he would have made over last year would be well under $300k (this does not include sponsership).

i guarantee you wayyyy off.

hmmm... I would take the under on 300k. It is not like all the subscription money for upswing goes straight to Doug's pockets. I wouldn't be surprised if he is not making any money from upswing at this point.

There is publicly available information you can use to make a much better estimate than this.

Confirmed Busto!

(Binks has prolly buried the safe deposit box keys and Doug's wallet somewhere in the yard...)

loved that koth promo video hahaha

P.S. doug table was your right your super loud

Keep it coming Dan Pork.
also, Volcano or Herbalizer?

No one talking about Doug being drunk and losing a couple of 100k?! new vid vom Joey is quite fun to watch. The moment he realized that he dumbed all of his winnings and more in like 3 hands is just lol

i was watching the stream when doug had 370k, he was not drunk or tilted but i thought he was playing pretty bad, he was playing every hand, paid 2 streets with 4. pair on the board to some guy which i am kind of sure who would not bluff there.

Average Reg at the table confirmed, and it wasn't Mercier!
Looking forward to the HU battle this evening, gl Doug Hoping for an epic Hellmuth tilt!

doug was playing live poker like tom dwan , just not running like tom.

hoooly cringe that matthoss guy

Has Karma finally caught up with Polk? He sure likes to drag people in his videos. Tables turned on him?

I have no idea what you would even be referring to. Just in case your question makes sense: no.

I don't agree with that characterisation. Save him doing a bit of a hatchet job in one of his videos on DNegs as part of their tit for tat over "more rake is better", I'd say that his videos, views on poker and overall poker output is pretty fair and balanced and follows good standards of jounalistic ethics.

The Durr challenge/Durr possible debts stuff is kinda up in the air so I don't think you can criticise his video a while back about that subject because not all of the facts were or are in the open.

I agree with this.

Polk is massively active on social media, where it's easy to put a foot wrong and pay for it. I think he does an excellent job of staying on the level; even where I have disagreed with his stance on certain things (as with some of his comments about Dwan), I don't think he's ever been completely out of line.

The stuff with durrrr probably wasn't acceptable at the time because of a lack of information. Even then though, it was an understandable point of view. After jungle's pod, Doug gave some leniency due to Durrrr's reported penalty payments. I think just because of Doug's ethical and personal code he took issue with the way Tom handled the entire challenge. And then there's the added intensity of jungle being (seemingly) a friend, in particular a friend with a little social difficulty and therefore a little more likely to be taken advantage of. Still, I agree this is all up in the air.