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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v77DQZlevD0

This video is great. OP accused Doug of not being able to beat micro stakes cash games and Doug is now essentially admitting that's true.

In before Chinese billionaires start locking all the 10NL players in the dungeon to play the highest of high stakes.

Or force them to play short deck NLh.

Is the micos beatable with the highest rake of any level? If it is then the money gained would surely be to low to make it worth it

Very disappointed. Opened this thread thinking it was going to be about Doyle and Todd Brunson and their new training site.

rake trap (already gg)+ small sample + distracted by twitch + not used to tendencies makes this all mean nothing. Would have been more interesting by far if he did a 500z challenge or even a 200z challenge. This is almost as funny as 2p2 hailing Doug's perceived skill level increase for beating a PLO reg (sauce) in his best game. (HU NL)

The number of people ITT claiming that Doug can't beat micros due to the fact that they themselves can't beat micros is superbly entertaining - keep it up guys!

Well first of all, you don't know who beats what limits in this thread because no one has said or posted their graphs.

Second, no one said Doug can't beat micros, he clearly can. His win rate is positive, after all (albeit a small sample). BUT he is struggling way more than most people expected. That's not a sign that Doug is bad at poker, it's just a sign that micros are pretty tough in the current online poker climate. Most people still think it's 2006 and win rates of 20bb/100+ at 25nl with little/no studying and no table selection are still possible.

Doug focusing on being entertaining for viewers, playing HUD-less, micros players far tougher than he realizes = death sentence. Look, I think Doug might be able to beat micros if he didn't stream and just focused on playing, but let's be real, he is struggling like he's in quicksand.

There's too many distractions and I think it's a multitasking issue. I've given Doug credit for being a HUNL endboss once upon a time. It's 2018 and it's clear as day Poker has passed him by. There's way too many simpletons who are blindly backing Doug for his past accomplishments. Reality check: He's simply not a very good poker player anymore. Once the passion goes away it spells disaster. That's with anything, not just poker.

I hate how we're focusing on Doug when there are dozens of other Poker players who deserve the spotlight. And even if Doug finally ends up beating this challenge, it's taken him like more than a year. It's no more than receiving a participation trophy at this point for him.

Do you think you could answer to me one time : Why aren't you following your own advice don't like him don't watch him? I know you wont answer to my other guestions but maybe this tiny one? And why is it ok for you to talk sheet about Polk when you go mental if someone is saying something negative about your idol Lex? And before that about staples. Remember when you pmd someone screaming leave jamie alone.

Do you mean at twitch? Could it be that they don't have the personality to make it? And could you give us some names. Like top 20? It must be easy because there are dozens of them.

In that case, the OP sure chose a strange thread title.

Please don't interfere with p0kercasual's art. Leave him alone.

Not really, assuming OP designed his post to troll create controversy (safe assumption), he hasn't posted in the thread since.

Rough days at the tables. Good luck Doug!

Can't beat bunch of americans on USA site, can you imagine struggle of playing european site with bunch of eastern europeans where 10k$ is 2x yearly income.

Doug Polk is not first that failed his BR challenge, there were so many of this high stakes pros/coaches that used this tactic for promotional purposes and failed epicly.


I have no doubt Doug can beat micros but no where near anywhere people and him think.


I think its good decision for him to play tournaments because its hard to beat micros without table selecting and adjusting your play to rake.

Table selecting at micros is a thing ?

Its a thing if you don't want to sit on a table with 3-4 regs and one fish and bleed rake like an idiot.

. . .

Can he not just enialate people in heads up cash and heads up sit and gos.

I thought he was meant to be the best heads up player in the world.

Don't have any opinion on Doug's skill level because I wouldn't know anything about it either way, but he's playing MTTs and anyone who has played MTTs should know that money comes in chunks. The fields are huge. The variance is huge. You can be treading water for a long time and then suddenly hit a few scores in a burst and be up a lot.

Given that he's playing events with 100+ runners at a minimum for the most part, he'll have to play for a while to get anything resembling his actual results.

Don't know or care anything about the challenge but I will say this. Doug is a great face for a training site just by his results and more so the way he carries himself. Saw him right after he busted main event and foreign guy with limited English was begging for a photograph. Busting the main is quite possibly the worst a poker player feels all year and Doug obliged and smiled for several pics. That's way more important imo

There is a saying in life that goes something like ...

"You are what you are"

Doug Polk is a losing micro stakes player.

This challenge will be ending at $0.

Last night Doug went from 1st place to quickly out the door on the bubble, not cashing.

Donked it off at the end.

The physical and mental toughness is simply not there.

"You are what you are" not what you pretend to be.

Doug Polk is a losing micro stakes player.

Doug Polk can't beat micro stakes.

This is what every micro's table is like on ACR if you are lucky enough to find a table with a true fish though.

doug is obviously a good poker player, but when he still uses that block this unblock that approach at micros it is just LOLZ