Douglas “WCGRider” Polk to take on Ben “Sauce1234” Sulsky For $100,000 in High Stakes Challenge

Starting this Sunday, September 15th, two titans of the online poker world, Douglas “WCGRider” Polk and Ben “Sauce1234” Sulsky, will play a month-long series of high stakes heads-up No Limit Hold’em challenge games, with the overall winner claiming a side bet of $100,000 .

The series will be hosted exclusively by Full Tilt Poker, with all of the action covered as it happens on the new Full Tilt Poker Blog (http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/blog/).
The structure of the challenge is simple; the two stars will play 15,000 hands across a number of sessions. Play will halt if either player builds an effective chip stack of more than 250 big blinds, and the player who is ahead at the time the 15,000th hand is complete will be awarded the $100,000 put up by the losing player.

The prospect of these two players clashing heads up has generated a huge buzz in the online poker community, with speculation and railbird bets being touted before the series was even confirmed.

"I’m really looking forward to this. It’s hard to get a game with these stakes against anyone nowadays,” said Douglas “WCGRider” Polk. “Also, I’ve never gotten to play in a challenge type format, which certainly changes the dynamic substantially. I think that Sauce is definitely a great player, a pioneer of modern-day poker strategy.”

The two notably clashed in April this year, over four tables of $100/$200 NLHE, in a two-hour session that netted Sauce a $197,000 profit. This came a week after Polk had previously inflicted $211,000 worth of damage on Sauce at the same stakes, so we can be sure of some great action during the challenge.

To find out more about the challenge, visit the new Full Tilt Poker Blog: http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/blog/

thought there was a lot of hate for mr wcgRider

So who puts up odds?

wait so are they not keeping profits from the tables............

is there a way to get observed FTP hands into a HH format that works with HM2?

Of course they are keeping profits from the tables, with an additional side bet of $100k

is this going to be at 50/100? or what?

it is happening now at ftp, playing 20k tables

On September 15 2013 15:57 MezmerizePLZ wrote: Of course they are keeping profits from the tables, with an additional side bet of $100k

good, I had a moment thinking this was just a modified version of isildur challenge which would have been less cool

I saw an interview with WCGrider that he talks how he got to high steaks
and he said that he basically played hu with 3 guys that made him rich, one of them was wobbly, lol

Look back at WCG's post history, 2010 he's giving NL50 advice. WE ARE ALL FAILURES

lol WCGRider sat on my HU NL50 table yesterday, i had fish action so i sat out on him

i guess while he was waiting for Sauce he wanted to make an educational vid for some site, on what site does he post his vids?

On September 16 2013 05:21 MadeInPolanD wrote: lol WCGRider sat on my HU NL50 table yesterday, i had fish action so i sat out on him i guess while he was waiting for Sauce he wanted to make an educational vid for some site, on what site does he post his vids?

why did u sat out on him? could have gained valuable information by playing and then purchasing that video

IM A NIT :O

and i was scared of losing ~15 BI on some crazy shit i would try to pull

On September 16 2013 05:21 MadeInPolanD wrote: lol WCGRider sat on my HU NL50 table yesterday, i had fish action so i sat out on him i guess while he was waiting for Sauce he wanted to make an educational vid for some site, on what site does he post his vids?

i listened to a recent interview of him saying making vids for sites isn't really ever worth it (esp for high/nosebleed stakes players)

On September 15 2013 19:55 drone666 wrote: I saw an interview with WCGrider that he talks how he got to high steaks and he said that he basically played hu with 3 guys that made him rich, one of them was wobbly, lol

shots fired

i played against him in nl100 HU a few years ago. took his money, he left the table.

On September 15 2013 19:55 drone666 wrote: I saw an interview with WCGrider that he talks how he got to high steaks and he said that he basically played hu with 3 guys that made him rich, one of them was wobbly, lol

lol link

I think it was on quadjacks ( but maybe was in the last 2+2 podcast )
http://quadjacks.com/tobis-table-talk-with-douglas-wcgrider-polk-part-i/
http://quadjacks.com/tobis-table-talk-with-douglas-wcgrider-polk-part-ii/

ok, he was testing hotkeys on NL50