Nice You included this in the vid 1 of My All-Time Favorites . . .

I agree with some points here, what I took as Doug's intent was he started out expecting it not to take long then a bunch of other ventures came up and he simply had to pick where he want's to invest his time, it's hard building business, responding to everyone, playing Million Dollar tournaments (Congrats), and finding a way to fit in some 25nl . . .

makes sense. dnegs is like a brainier tom cruise.

Going live for my first stream in a while!

How can he be a stereotype when he is the prototype?

Hey Doug ,,,,,,big fan,,,,,,,good to see you out here in Jersey playing on the combined WSOP site.......just got to get a couple of more states involved now,,,,, good luck with the Golden Knights,,,,,

Watced the first 45 min of your last podcast with Joey and became a fan. Being your own man is a lot easier when your wildly rich then it is when your a common folk.... so I must ask would your principles be so rigid if your skills didn't pay the bills so to speak.
Not trying to lead the question as many like DNegs will sell their soul to pile a few more mil on top of their current million and you've declined that route so much respect.

Daniel is a prototypical narcissist. This sentence contains correct diction.

Someone beat me to it, but you could have saved a lot of time simply typing "prototypical definition" on Google instead of doing whatever it was you were trying to do here. lol

"Saving a lot of time" is antithetical to posting to or reading NVG.

Yeah what's the fun in that?

Tone Vays on in 8 minutes with Doug!
He is only for TA, doug doesn't really use or believe in it much
And always sees vast majority of alts as Scams, contary to Doug
I'm really excited

hahahaha they placed a $10k bet
Doug says BTC won't go below 6k by end of 2019
Tone says it will
Think Doug is a dog but it's +EV for publicity for sure haha, he will be a meme in the Tone podcasts for sure

I will add another $5K if Doug wants to book more action on this.

Tone should be 10k richer by the end of summer.

Lol 100% of people who have large % net in BTC like tone would take the bet
You lose => in a year and a half you will lose a fraction of BTC
and you're already rich at that point
You win => hello 1.67 BTC!

Doug gets publicity to balance out his EV, great bet for everyone, no chance doug will book you too if you're some random schmuck

Because if BTC doesn't drop to 6K, it automatically means that BTC must have skyrocketed and now you're rich? If your reasoning was actually valid, then you should be able to make a killing buying a synthetic straddle on BTC, and you could book that for your entire net worth.

You're completely wrong. No casino in the world would ever risk it's net worth on a single bet. That's why they have betting limits in the first place.

Managed to catch a portion of the bankroll challenge last Friday. It really sounds like Polk's non committal on a set schedule nor a clear deadline is indicative that this is not going to finish anytime soon.

If Douglas gets stacked on a continual basis as has been par thus far, then it's safe to say we'll see him neglecting this BR challenge. We need to have a clear guideline set in stone so that this doesn't just turn into the Durrrr vs Jungle fiasco. By the way Doug was ripping on Tom for not finishing, and Douglas is in the same boat. A bit ironic if you ask me.

Not rooting for Doug to succeed or fail. From what I've seen I do think he's a dog to win the challenge hence my 10-1 offer. Would be an interesting PokerShares prop bet to bet on. I do think the name change to MicroStakes provides some +EV as players do not know it's Doug Polk.

A tip for Doug: You would grow a bigger fan base if you didn't always take shots at Daniel or Tom. 2 icons of poker no matter how you slice it.

He said last Friday, that he would do another session next Friday. That is about as committed as Doug can be with his time, imo.

Question:

If DP runs godlike and gets to 10k in 4 sessions and the challenge ends, do we learn more than if he does it periodically and experiences the same ups and downs that we might face also?

His style of play seems very profitable to me, and the more I watch of it the better I get at 6-max.

Horrible mindset, you speak like a sheep. He is calling out people like Daniel because Daniel is a POS.

Doug has BUILT his fan base going after the big guys
Big reason he has the fanbase in the first place - he is independent, has money, can build his brand by calling out people no other popular youtuber/twitch poker person really can and got views for it

And how can you compare it to the Jungle Challenge, it had hundreds of thousands ++ of $ on the line

Doug just his poker image, a game he doesn't even claim to play seriously for months now

Most of what p0kercasual says is laughable, which is why he's my favorite poster on 2+2, but I think he's right about taking shots at DNegs and Tom. People have this cynical idea that it's GTO for views and subscribers, and maybe it's convenient for people like Daniel to think that instead of owning up to his shortcomings. But the opposite is actually true.

Both of those players have very large diehard followings that have now been angered and will never be fans. You also lose social capital within the industry, especially by burning bridges with DNegs, who is very influential. I myself have probably destroyed any prospects of working in the industry by making an enemy of him.

And besides all that, most of the popular videos are regular hand breakdowns anyway. If all you care about is max views/subs and getting sponsorship deals, the slam dunk play is to grind hand analyses and be nice to everybody. But what's the fun in that?

I cannot even believe that someone would even attempt to compare the two.

Laughable, if not so sad.

Very true.

Except 7/10 most popular Doug's Videos have either Negreanu, Bilzerian or Dwan in the title or thumbnail. There's no need to paint yourselves as altruistic white knight selfless whistleblowers Thomas :P And we both know people ask you in comments about your awesome editing skills all over the place, it's not like you'd struggle for work if doug moves on to be President and doesn't need you anymore.