This is exactly why Doug doing these daily is so great. If you think watching Doug half seriously go over a hand for 5 mins is going to teach you more than actual strategy content, Idk what to tell you.

I haven't read the thread, but Doug's videos are awesome. I'm not sure if it's him or he's hired someone to do his marketing, but I must say that it's really strong.

Nah, I don't think he's saying it's a bad thing per se, but rather that such high-level hand analysis likely goes over the heads of the viewers.

However...

Oconee's statement implies that the Youtube audience is one giant, homogenous mass with a single interest or taste. The site boasts multiple audiences, almost infinitely many, such that any given subject matter can find a crowd. In fact, it seems to be the place to look for video content that you know doesn't exist anywhere else.

I'd further suggest that Doug's strategy talk is meant for an intermediate crowd, skill- and experience-wise, since he largely espouses a relatively tight range preflop. Obviously, I could be projecting here, but the key target seems to be "experienced recs" who are looking to move up in stakes.

So the target crowd for Upswing. What a coincidence Good stuff from Doug. The channel seems to have turned into a HH channel as there's been only one non HH video since 12/9 (HSDB for Doug's b-day). I'm sure there's a good reason he's doing so but I haven't watched the last few and will watch again when the original and funny content comes.

Chess not checkers

I just watched the HSDB leak video from Polk. There is no doubt the man is entertaining. This stuff is good, I will try to watch more.

very few things make me more nostalgic than HSP. i distinctly remember the anticipation of season 5 coming out to watch durrr vs the live maniacs and certainly not getting disappointed with that q10 hand on 2210 that changed the way my 9/7/2 brain thought about poker. so needless to say im really enjoying the content.

doug critiques some preflop looseness by players, but i feel like if you ever fold a suited one gapper + from any position to a single raise and you aren't living legend doyle brunson, you'll never be invited back on the show. plus it's possible there's some advertising equity (i imagine negreanus gotten some ROI on his -millions on that show). then again half these guys went broke, so idk.

Yeah, those were good times. I remember sitting around with my buddies at 2 AM or w/e smoking out in anticipation of Durrr and the likes battling it out.

His channel totally changed my opinion of him. Used to think he was just a blow hard who would bad mouth players to get attention. Now that you can see him for an extended period of time talking and explaining his views and what he says, it makes a lot of sense. Really like the content and it's one of the very few entertaining things left in the poker world.

re newst hsp video, I love that someone finally pointed out how inconsistent Benaymin's behavour with straight flush is - if you "convince" your opponent that you have nothing and then raise, it looks even nuttier. I thought lol-live pros are supposed to be good at this stuff

Appreciate all the feedback guys.

The reason that the channel is so poker hand review heavy at the moment is because that is simply what people are watching. I have been monitoring all of the data, and not only do those videos generally perform better out of the gate, the end up having much more longevity and seem to get many views even months after they come out.

Sometimes I have a good idea for a 1 off video (both money related videos, my top 5 pots, isildurs top 5 pots, few others) but the comedy type videos (high stakes poker pro kidnapped type comedy) end up somewhat underperforming relative to hand reviews. They didnt do badly per se, but the thing is the views on those die after around a week and they have little appeal to a wide youtube audience.

The key to success on youtube is finding ways to appeal to a very wide array of people. I try to keep my analysis in the middle ground for this reason, but mix in bits of comedy as possible. I think this is the most fair place to be.

I will say, that I think down the road (6 months - 3 years, hard to say) I want to give a shot at full trying a comedy channel. I don't know if I have the chops to make that work, but I absolutely love making those videos. For the time being however, the best play is to build out my audience within poker youtube by providing a variety of content, with an emphasis on hand history analysis.

Polker Hands?

Channel is great Doug keep doing what you're doing. A little bit of everything but a focus on interesting HH reviews starring players the casual will recognise, with analysis that is interesting enough that good players will watch, but basic enough that recreational players enjoy the content too.

I've been recommending your channel to a few recreational friends of mine who want to get better but don't understand the game at a level where an upswing/rio etc subscription would be useful and they've given fairly positive feedback overall - it's mostly pub poker style players i'm referring to.

Trying out you're own comedy channel in the future?!

LMFAO!

And if that was ur first bit....that was GOLD!!


And despite ur ego having no-limit (DUCWIDT), and thinking you can pull off ur own comedy channel, I'm still a legit fan of ur current show (especially the comedic parts).

i like ur posters

It's not broken. No point fixing it. Fun and interesting. Good job!

I am one of those guys just watching the pawker hands, because they are entertaining, educational and quite short. Almost wants me to go back to poker. Other videos that are over 15 minutes are just too much for my concentration span to watch. Try to condense them into more fun per square second.

Poker strategy videos > Poker comedy videos > Other comedy videos

Remember this and it'll be just fine.

Why don't you name your comedy channel "Doug's Comedy Polkduction?"

I don't get it. Is Polkduction some sort of play on words?

Might be some form of dance performance

What's up Doug, vazdog33 here, back with another post about ur latest episode of poker hands.

With that, let's jump right into today's post...

I thoroughly enjoyed the start of your latest episode, particularly not taking that old nit Greenstein to task (too hard at least) for not 3 betting preflop with his Jc10c. All in all, episode seems pretty standard so far.

Now let's take the flop portion of my post...

Again, i find myself sufficiently amused on the flop. While I like ur flop analysis, I would like to see u balance some by blasting that senile old bat Brunson for not taking a more agressive line and perhaps finding a squeeze and raising with his AJ, despite whiffing the flop. That said, the episode is still enjoyable and the flop analysis seems fine.

All right guys, let's go ahead and move to the turn...

Ur analysis, and the hand itself, are as standard as they come. Perhaps you could be critiqued for picking such a snoozer of a hand to analyze. Maybe working in one of ur dead-pan quips here could have helped? Did you feel that going for a joke here would be too "fancy play syndrome"? Or maybe you were too busy worrying about how ur ghey faux hawk was looking at moment? Anyway, feels like it could have been a good time for you to use some amped up aggression.

But enough about the turn, let's move to the river....

Analysis wise, I really like ur line here. I just could not agree more with ur take on Eastgate's "just" call, rather than him raising. Where I do find fault is with ur comments about Dwan and the others making fun of Eastgate for not raising. I felt they more laughing at Dwans reaction when he found out he lost. Nothing more to it than that. While I felt you played that portion wrong, it's probably not a huge viewership loser in the long run.

Thanks so much for reading guys and don't forget to think about subscribing to Doug's ghey hairstyle.


PS - go go go in the Aria 25k brah!!

gl buddy. I hope to see that branch off into a comedy thing as I find most all of your stuff pretty damn funny and think they're rewatchable as well. #shelflife

i loved the poker hands to start with but feel so much output is overkill. i just cant see how an endless stream of these vids is bringing in new viewers.

dont get me wrong, big doug fan and dont feel comedy poker vids are that great as an alternative.

in conclusion: quality not quantity please

Point 2: would love a vid about recent additions to the upswing site

Is it a bad sign that Doug's recent videos have been getting a lot of dislikes and negative comments, or is that difficult to avoid as his channel becomes more popular?