Daniel seems to basically have the exact opposite understanding of what card removal does. He folds the 42s as if it's just not a hand to consider calling with, and earlier he cut doug off saying he can't bluffraise with his 76o when it's basically one of the best bluff combos, blocking straights, flushes, and boats. Kind of shocking he wasn't instructed these simple concepts from whoever's coaching him.

He's focusing audibly on pot odds/raw "price" in some spots as if it isn't kinda intuitive after decades of playing that you're getting 3.2:1 on your money or whatever.

I'm pretty sure he's saying these things for Doug's benefit & Doug knows it

Doug getting owned.

LFG

It would be great if he was really leveling and deliberately playing this bonkers nitty style not only to adjust online but use reasonable bluff combos to do it but given he nitrolls the T6 I don't think it's all some massive level. He seems to just doing some busch league "look I'm so passive" then will ramp up the aggression online in a frenetic way. We'll see lol

Better than expected

I don't think Doug could beat the $1/$2 NL game at the Orleans playing like this. Doug looks like he wants to jump off a bridge being embarrassed on live stream after talking mad **** on twitter for months.

Danny tearing it up.

Doug spewmonkey there

Was fun. Hope they play more live, didn't thought I'd enjoy to be honest lol

And Negreanu has zero chance if he keeps playing like this

Daniel's hair looks like the Michael Myers mask hair.

lol at previous comments saying Doug has tilted it off. Clearly Doug is the better player by quite a margin and Daniel's style is very exploitable so far.

There will be a lot of damage done over the next 19800 hands imo.

Excellent production quality and very entertaining match/banter. Wish we could have gotten another 100 hands, as things were starting to really open up...

Very enjoyable. Looking forward to the rest of the hands, too bad more aren't live

who cares about his hair ffs

Nailed it

Sick beat for Daniel that they have to quit.

Can they please play more live?

Seeing Doug Polk on the verge of tears was well worth watching this.

Mori, can you make this happen?

Crazy how they both made it very enjoyable to watch. Not Not to mention the action itself that was great. GG

Agree.

The commentators have mentioned several times that the table talk was much more sterile than many might have anticipated. But IMO Doug, Daniel, and PokerGO really made themselves (and others in the poker world) look very good by collaborating and putting on an entertaining inaugural cast. I think Kane Kalas called the exchanges "refreshing" near the end.

Sooner or later, the competitive poker world/industry is going to have to embrace measures that may be necessary to re-populate the player market (and the corresponding investment that goes with that). This could mean producing these public-casts in a manner that is palatable to and satisfies gaming authorities/regulators. In this case, that would be the Nevada Gaming Control Board.

Great job all around imo. From the commentators to the set crew to the dealer/players... at least from 1/4 of the show that I saw. Hopefully this collaboration will lead to WSOP NV/NJ attracting new players (and new PokerGO subscribers) as Daniel and Doug move their High Stakes Feud online.

it was just getting good

love the 98 hand.

raise 98 to 2.5x pre, get called
flop: T72 rainbow.
doug checks, daniel checks back
turn is an A
doug checks, daniel checks back


glad i didn't take the daniel line.

this is why being a douche with no humility backfires. Joe Sixpack and everyone at home who has no clue what a sample is thinks you just got owned. the pre-production interview and the whole "backup the truck" thing is like some 90s WWF **** and it's cringe af.

are joe sixpacks really watching this? 25k people were watching the stream. i doubt there're many casuals in there. i know tons of people who are pretty deep into the whole online poker thing and they wouldn't have watched- this is kind of a who gives a **** challenge unless you're at least somewhat invested in the manufactured drama surrounding it.