Lmao doug on Joeys pod just said that at vegas game when he walked by negreanu , daniel said 'ew gross' to his face

crypto is high functioning idiocy but douggie polks is still the man. LOL @ dnegs becoming a sniveling ape.

I thought this was pathetic when I heard this at first. Then I remembered that it was Neg that said it, so it shouldn't be a surprise.

When Daniel claims to be doing his annual Rocky marathon, he's actually just watching Mean Girls 6 consecutive times.

I don't think it's unreasonable to think any particular coin is undervalued, but to say that you can't see a good counter to having 5-10% of your net worth in crypto is pretty lol. You'd be saying that if it was trading at 50k.

I don't doubt you can analyze what's going on in the world and make good bets wrt it's impact on the industry or analyze the tech wrt specific coins and anticipate where people will be throwing their money, but let's be real - every analysis of price fundamentals is the equivalent of a fat delusional white collar professional on a heater flapping his jowls about his long term winrate.

Even if crypto userbase triples and for some reason no new coins are developed that function as an alternative the rational price might still be a small fraction of what they trade at.

Obviously there are people that should not be investing 10% of their net in this stuff. The whole point of Doug's videos are to promote a fun hobby for nerds with disposable income. It's also a study of how societies respond to change. There is all kinds of intellectual merit for being a crypto enthusiast even without having skin in the game -- good luck making this claim for poker.

Daniel is a prototypical narcissist. He's a little better at hiding it now, but sometimes it seeps out like above.

It really is amazing isn't it? They need to read The Creature from Jekyll Island.

Unbacked fiat currency is by far the most profitable scam in the history of the world.

So Doug is doing a "make it or break it" session on friday for the bankroll challenge.
Im sure m not the only one dissapointed at what that turned out to be. What exactly does it prove if Doug can run good and run his 900 to 10k in a day?

The true grind was the 15 hr streamdays when he wouldnt signoff before that 10 dollar bonus got reached.... battling against crazyJim in the Bigbuck etc. True grinds against the worldclass players, now its a "please be on the good side of variance" challenge.

You mean they created him to try it out before they make a production line of DN?

They = Choice Center

So choice center created DN as a prototype?

I didnt quite understand what he meant by doing the bankroll challenge... I couldnt tell if he was going to try to get to $10k Friday or go broke, or if he was going to play like normal and just keep doing the challenge like twice a year.

BTW, does he have any bets on the Bankroll Challenge, or is it just about turning $100 into $10000?

I'd like to know if he overestimated his edge at the smaller games. My guess is there was a partial falling out of love with poker + other important things going on.

We are going to be playing a serious 10c/20c session

Good call
I can almost feel how you've been imagining how the challenge will be over, how good it will feel...and you started gambling.
And you actually made it longer pretty much 100% guaranteed by not using normal BRM Doug (hu or PLO on 20BI, lol)
And you'd get way less trolls if it was a much smoother, steadier line up.
I get that you want to have fun and entertain during the stream so you gambol but imo you shouldn't when you have limited time, it's still plenty fun when you play one stake lower

So you are saying that he is a loser in those games? I think he should aggressively try to finish the challenge. Just my opinion.

I think too much emphasis is placed on succeeding or failing this challenge. Like if it was me trying to go from $100 to $10k I would be aggressive about it and if I busted I would just deposit another $100 when I got my next paycheck or whatever. $100 is not a ton of money. The problem is Doug is trying to do this without failing which is going to be very slow. And boring. And for what? To prove it can be done? Or to highlight the strategy involved in beating microstakes?

Good luck though Doug.

Because literally anyone can deposit 1k$ sit at 200NL tables and build it up to 10k$. Real challenge is to do it using relatively reasonable BR management.

Obviously he has an edge, its absurd to think he doesn't. The whole point of bankroll management is to try and mitigate variance, but in terms of rationality variance isn't a factor. Its actually irrational to account for variance in a decision.
A dumbed down example would be, a rich person wants to flip for a billion dollars the unfavorable side of a rigged 49/51 coin against a casino which only has 1 billion dollars. Regardless of how small the casinos edge is here (2%), the casino has to take the bet every time.

Upswing poker. Ryan Fee (who the hell is he anyway?), probably doesn't have a winning cash graph this decade, and the Star Doug Polk ran off to become a Crypto troll when he realized he couldn't beat micro anymore. I bet he also doesn't have a single winning 6 max cash graph. Not a good advertisement if you ask me. Doug is pretty funny though at least. Anyone who trolls Negreanu is cool with me.

Yes.

What I took as Doug’s intent for the bankroll challenge was to play it seriously but infrequently, this generates the interest from viewers who enjoy watching the implementation of high stakes skills at the micros, but does not burden the rest of his base with long sessions of play that may be uninteresting to those viewers.

I can see it now......

The year is 2073
The location is the Washington National Cathedral

The inscription reads:

"Here lies the body of Douglas K. Polk, 52nd President of the United States of America,
who reduced gun ownership by 90% and brought peace, prosperity and humour to the U.S.A.
and to the wider world, but never completed the bankroll challenge".

It should have been a task given to one of his minions. Not many have doubts that beating small games is possible by someone whose at the top of the food chain.

Putting in x00k hands at 5/10 and 10/20nl would be more interesting to me and does a lot more to validate a training sites worth. When’s the last time he put in significant volume at those stakes?

Be careful Daniel's brother has killed people for less and he's even bigger than Daniel.