He explains it throughout the tilting: Every time he loses a big (in relation to the bankroll challenge) pot he sees time slip away. A $20 pot is $20 more he's gonna have to grind until he can quit this **** and losing it is thus xx minutes or y hours off of his life. In light of that it makes perfect sense to get upset over it, actually

Imagine it yourself: You're stuck doing something menial you really dislike, and every time you get unlucky, 30 more minutes of that menial task is added to the time bank you need to burn off. "You lost the flip, sorry kid, that's 2 more hours of peeling potatoes before you can go home!"

Btw, the remarks some people made about how Doug should never bluff/never call against the field are a bit extreme but there is some truth in it, it's called population tendencies.
Most ppl are just not good enough to have enough bluffs in certain spots and you should react by never bluffcatching, on the other hand you should not bluff certain spots against sticky fish. This comes mostly with experience playing a certain field, you get a feel of how ppl are playing their range and how ridiculously leaked they can be, then you adjust. It's obviously much harder without a hud though.
Also I don't buy into him having to play fairly balanced because ppl are watching. It requires a lot of efforts from people to deviate from their usual strategy because they saw one unusual play from him, and that might not come up ever again.

We all know Doug is good, however, his strength was hu with advanced hud stats and using statistical data to exploit weaknesses of opponents.

Now he’s just playing 6max without a hud and seems just like the rest of us.

This is pretty awesome to see him grind this challenge everyday. It's a lot of fun and I think I'm actually learning too. This is definitely getting me more into poker.


Nice play Doug! The tilt vid was awesome lol.

Sir Huntington, if you want to do ass kissing on 2+2, you should step back and take notes. You're not very good at it yet, but the guy you want to copy - srslysrsy to is a master of the craft.

bgy333 100 posts. approx 100% of them on the doug threads talking about doug.

p0kercasual 60 posts. approx 100% on the doug threads. in spare time watches doug on twitch and youtube vids (just for a looksie)

big pickle 80 posts. approx 100% of these are talking about doug's body, fitness levels, and clothing choices

you know actions speak louder than words my friends

e.g. NL10 on Stars the river bluff frequency on 3 barrel is around 30%
Assuming average bet size of 2/3 you should be calling a lot on average
And NL5 you should beat by barreling yourself as people fold almost 50% on the river to triple barrel on average

I honestly doubt many of you couch warriors have a clue about how to crush micros in 2018
and it's gonna be a lot closer to solver strategy and by calling down+bluffing often than you think

how do u know river bluff freq. is 30%? i highly doubt that.

large sample in range research
Granted it does count the dumb bets with weak pairs as bluffs but that shouldn't change much (2nd pair +worse but not Top pair on turn)

Ahh it’s almost like they only take that line with good hands and have too many strong value bets on the river.

This is really entertaining - is there a schedule anywhere of what time you start?

It would make it easier to build a larger audience following you, if we know when to tune in.
(like time in UTC/GMT, so viewers can work out when, in their own timezone)

Perhaps you could let us know in advance, e.g. the day before/ 8 hours/ a few hours before or something... anything.
Maybe one of your team can do that for you?
Probably a good idea to put the start time both in this thread & here on the challenge page:
https://upswingpoker.com/10000-challenge/


I think before, when the play was sporadic, it was hard to follow (and really just seemed more like a gimmick).
But now that you are taking this more seriously and playing on a daily basis, this is actually getting interesting.
Respect to you, for taking this seriously now, keep it up!

I think you can't beat the micros and have decided that it's because of the solvers etc. And tbh who cares if you can't beat the micros if you can beat higher games? Myself haven't played those stakes in years but pretty sure you don't need solver strategy to beat them.

Being the high stakes crusher that I am courtesy of Doug Polk’s Upswing Poker Lab, the only real difference i see between micros and higher stakes is the amount of donkeys. Sure, at $5-$10 you might have one ******* who thinks limp-callomg Q4s is +EV, but most of the players have standard ranges. At the micros you will have multiple players like that, if not the entire table. At the lower stakes you’ll get sucked out on because they call too much with weak hands. They think bottom pair with J3s cannot possibly be behind. So they call off and make trips or two pair on the river. You just have to adjust and I’ve never seen a man who can adjust to a table better than The Godfather, Doug Polk.

Huge respect for Doug..It must be really difficult playing for pennies when you are used to games much bigger.

But yeah what site are you playing on? Why no HUD? Why don’t you just play heads up on Pokerstars? Have you thought of calling it the Polker bankroll challenge? #nosetnobet : )

Huge respect for Doug..It must be really difficult playing for pennies when you are used to games much bigger.

But yeah what site are you playing on? Why no HUD? Why don’t you just play heads up on Pokerstars? Have you thought of calling it the Polker bankroll challenge? #nosetnobet : )

I think it's time to put you in ignore.

How does Doug increases his bankroll if he doesn't beat the micros? Is he just running hot?

I haven't played them in a couple years
before then a few mill. hands at around 6bb/100 just cashing out

When NL10 population as a whole folds to river cbet 44% of the time now, the twitch chat warriors that say you should never bluff etc. are either horribly out of touch or are breakeven forever micros warriors that shouldn't be listened to:]
And these days you do have to actually you know...focus on postflop and play some poker also not just follow 3 blind rules to actually crush, even at NL10. And Doug will show that sooner or later

Honestly really don't care how do you beat the micros but why would you play millions of hands micros profitable and not move up? You don't like money? Even if you make like 3bbs/100 at NL25 that's way more than you get with 6bb/100 at NL10. Plus the potential rb.

Dude, do I need to poke you in order to get you to come to your senses? You have the gall to compare Lex to Doug when they couldn't be more dissimilar.
Lex is the closest to being a hero in poker. I'm not just saying this because I'm a die hard Veldhuis bandwagoner. I'm plugging Lex because he's a big brother in my eyes. Bro is one of the most dedicated, intelligent, hard-working, funny, personable, respectful, insightful, relatable individuals walking God's green earth. I say that matter-of-factly!

Now let me tell you why Doug is the complete opposite. Doug loves talking a big game to try and get others to acknowledge his eliteness. He's a pompous, arrogant, self-centered, braggadocious person. He's gotten too big for his britches and he thinks he's still relevant. He beefs with other poker players creating flame wars as if his reputation is at stake. Further, he pulls cockamamie stunts like creating billboards, t-shirts, pictures to sneak diss highly respected poker pros. Is this is a guy that deserves my respect? Are you frigging kidding me... Doug is a knock off version of Dan Bilzerian. A guy who seeks validation from attention whoring. Same reason 99% of the poker community loathes Phil Hellmuth.

So I need medication because I'm pointing out how FTL Doug is. I think I'll go out on a limb and say 9/10 people in the poker community prefer Lex over Doug. My job overlaps the Twitch streaming platform, which is why I am so heavily invested in Twitch. Also, I watched Doug's stream for 5 minutes and if Lex were streaming I'd forego Doug's stream altogether. Not that it's your business, but I was watching Triton High Rollers Russia Event, Tonkaaaa's stream, Mattystaples just to name a few.

Lex is legit on a horrible downswing. Not only that, Lex has been dealing with massive personal issues which has been affecting his poker play. Do you gloss over my posts where I've stated that Lex isn't on the same level as Holtz, Bonomo, Nitsche, Sontheimer, Coleman, Moorman, Lena900.

I'm micro analyzing Doug's play because he's doing a challenge which he's in over his head with. YOu can talk to me when Lex starts a challenge.

Doug is loud, boisterous, irritating, egomaniacal. Hmmm... I wonder who that reminds me of

I hear ya. You can say that again.

So you watched him for 5 minutes and from that you can say all that you said? I'm pretty sure you have some real issues for sure. Relating so hard to someone who streams some cardgame can't be normal. And having such strong negative feelings for someone you have never met and probably will never meet tells a story about a person who ain't all good.

I didn't read your whole rant but the question is still this : Why do you watch him when you don't like him? Why don't you follow your own advice and DON'T WATCH.

Seriously dude get some help. You need it.

Haters gonna hate.

So why did you say this:

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/s...&postcount=331