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Originally Posted by Dynasty
Doug,
Among your many background props, you regularly have a stack of specific books:
Gambling Theory and Other Topics
Seven Card Stud for Advanced Players
Real Poker Psychology
Inside the Poker Mind
The Intelligent Poker Player
Why do you choose these five books?
I just wanted to have a variety of poker books in the background to give my videos a little flavor. These are the 2+2 books I had on hand.
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Originally Posted by betgo
I appreciate your principled stand, and your acknowledgment of possible problems in exposing scammers.
Doug Polk suggests scams involving 6-7 figure sums, there are actual alleged scams and victims, and Polk mentions multiple alleged scammers.
Perhaps in the future there could be some limit on the number of posts attacking one person by a specific other person. If there are actual scams, isn't it enough to provide evidence of the scam once or twice? There is a fine line between exposing scams and libel or trolling.
I don't understand what you mean here. I did I think 2 videos (can't remember where I first talked about it) on the Tom scam ever. The first story is verifiable true, and the second story seems very likely to be him as well, from what is publicly available.
I am not trolling/joking about Tom Dwan. He is a massive ****ing scumbag for his actions regarding his challenge with jungle.
If this had been an array of pros that were not Tom Dwan, they would be shamed by the entire community. The only reason people are jumping in to stick up for him is because they associate him with being someone they look up and he was the golden boy for online poker 3-10 years ago.
I will always be careful with running stories like this. Look at my track record on youtube, how many videos have I done about scammers, 3 or 4? Out of ~260 videos I have put up? I understand the severity of the allegations and do not treat them lightly.
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Originally Posted by Bizeeey
Luke said specifically that Stars cash is the only game he doesn't beat. Pretty low and misleading of Doug tbh, even if it's funny.
I actually look at it like this. In games where you can actually see how he is doing, he is constantly losing over the last 6-8 years. In games where you can't see anything, he is "beasting".
When I hear someone with this story, I almost always assume they are financially struggling and/or do not win nearly as much as they claim. If you are a good winning player, that should shine across the board, and its a huge cop out to be like "I crush games you don't know about that are off the grind that we can't see the results". To me that is just a super cool story.
If you are gonna go on and attack me for 20 minutes, tell people I can't beat anything, and call my company a scam; and then when it comes to your own track record you are getting crushed online, then yes you are going to have to answer to how ****ty of a player you are in the only format with results that are actually displayed.
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Originally Posted by Two SHAE
Doug said in his recent podcast that Luke "just ignored that he [Doug] smoked him in 400/800 8game, pretended like it never happened"... but this is categorically untrue -- Luke specifically said that he thinks someone else ("his pigeon friend JLlama, that c*nt is more dislikable than Trump") was ghosting that session. Obviously if that were true Doug would never admit it, and if it isn't true, it's not like Doug can prove it anyway. So IMO it's totally reasonable to just not even respond to it, since Luke was kind of taking a shot in the dark anyway...
But saying something that is just demonstrably untrue is puzzling because Luke very specifically mentioned the 400/800 8game session with regards to his accusation.
This is total BS. We played part of this match ON WEBCAM when I accused him of multi accounting. It went down like this...
I was playing Luke, after a couple of hours his play style/timing changed dramatically. Luke does not play that fast in general, and he went to playing lighting fast and overall much better. At this point I sat out, and said I was worried he was multi accounting with Isildur (both were in UK and are friends).
At this point he went absolutely bat**** insane, and DEMANDED a webcam game. So we fired up the webcam, and played $300/$600 triple draw on webcam. He played for about 2 hours, pounding the wall next to him whenever he would lose, and yelling at me over the cam. Easily one of the weirdest poker experiences I have ever hand.
Then he "had to go" and get off the webcam while still playing me. To this day I am still not sure exactly what happened and would not put it as 0% that there was something shady involved.
After this, he comes out and accuses me of multi accounting with Jllama. That is hilarious, its like he is trying to deflect the blame on himself and put it on me. Let me get this straight, I played you hu $300/$600 on webcam, in one of my worst games, but when its 8 game and there is HUNL and HUPLO I put my buddy on my account to play?
This is a pathetic attempt of misdirection from a crazed degenerate to try and justify his point. He talks a big game and is real upset about what happened, but he uses these things as a crutch to make his badly bruised ego feel like hes still a big shot.