After beefing for years, Doug 'WCGRider" Polk and Daniel Negreanu are squaring off at $200/$400 on WSOP.com for at least 25,000 hands. The challenge has been going on for quite some time already and we are seeing more and more interest in, especially that Polk recently started streaming while showing some of his holecards.
The challenge began with a live session on November 4th. The remainder of the challenge is being played online and streamed live on Doug's YouTube channel.
In short, here are the main terms of entire challenge:
2 tables of $200/$400 No Limit Hold’em
25,000 hands
The player behind after 12,500 hands may quit the match at that point
First 16 sessions are over, and in the latest one Polk finished with 160.348$ profit after just 824 hands. Polk commented: "Good session today. Lots of nice pots. We were an OESD in a 3BP vs KK away from booking a massive win. But any 4 buyin win is still a great session. Looking forward to W/T/F sessions!"
Current overall score is ~$674,000 in green for Doug Polk over 7921 Hands. After the half-mark milestone is reached of 12.500 hands played out, losing player can back out of the challenge if he wants to.
Next matches are scheduled to happen this Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
You can watch it live on [link=https://www.youtube.com/dougpolkpoker] Youtube channel of Doug Polk.[/link]
Meanwhile, here is a video recap of 16th session:
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PuertoRican United States. Dec 08 2020 18:09. Posts 13136
Dinewbie United States. Dec 09 2020 06:29. Posts 58
Glad to see you're alright Defrag!
Btw I am Fujikura
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NewbSaibot United States. Dec 11 2020 08:32. Posts 4946
Dnegs(40k) btn opens to 1k and Doug(covers) calls.
Flop ($2k) Ad4d2h
Check, check.
Turn ($2k) 5d
Doug bets $759 and Dnegs calls.
River ($3515) Td
Doug bets $984, Dnegs, raises to $3727, Doug 3bets to $9213, Dnegs just calls with 29k behind.
Doug has Th7d and Dnegs has Kd7s.
Discuss.
bye now
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NewbSaibot United States. Dec 11 2020 08:33. Posts 4946
Losing $100 per hand lul
bye now
Last edit: 11/12/2020 08:50
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Nitewin United States. Dec 11 2020 17:31. Posts 1552
Doug talked about this hand in the post game interview. He wanted to fold out thin value raises over his block bet. It'd be hard to have a bluff here. Dnegs calls to see what Doug is bluffing with because he's likely not to get anymore action.
On December 11 2020 07:32 NewbSaibot wrote:
Dnegs(40k) btn opens to 1k and Doug(covers) calls.
Flop ($2k) Ad4d2h
Check, check.
Turn ($2k) 5d
Doug bets $759 and Dnegs calls.
River ($3515) Td
Doug bets $984, Dnegs, raises to $3727, Doug 3bets to $9213, Dnegs just calls with 29k behind.
Doug has Th7d and Dnegs has Kd7s.
Discuss.
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Nitewin United States. Dec 11 2020 17:59. Posts 1552
Biggest winner is the poker site.
They're making 2.5 every postflop hand. 10k hands is 25,000 to run a game software. Insane imo.
To be fair they have security and software developer expenses but still.
NewbSaibot United States. Dec 12 2020 01:28. Posts 4946
On December 11 2020 16:31 Nitewin wrote:
Dnegs calls to see what Doug is bluffing with because he's likely not to get anymore action.
If dnegs wants to just see polk's hand couldnt the reverse also hold true? Maybe polk just wants to show off on stream with an epic hero call? Maybe he misclicks like he's done every session so far?
On December 09 2020 05:29 Dinewbie wrote:
Glad to see you're alright Defrag!
thanks
On December 11 2020 16:59 Nitewin wrote:
Biggest winner is the poker site.
They're making 2.5 every postflop hand. 10k hands is 25,000 to run a game software. Insane imo.
To be fair they have security and software developer expenses but still.
Many, many more costs to run a poker room. Overall starting a poker room nowdays from scratch is around 10mln-15mln$ absolute min. And that's not talking top tier soft.
On December 11 2020 16:31 Nitewin wrote:
Dnegs calls to see what Doug is bluffing with because he's likely not to get anymore action.
If dnegs wants to just see polk's hand couldnt the reverse also hold true? Maybe polk just wants to show off on stream with an epic hero call? Maybe he misclicks like he's done every session so far?
Kd isn't the nuts, the pay seems standard, Doug isn't 3 betting anything for value under Kd after Daniel raises river.
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After beefing for years, Doug 'WCGRider" Polk and Daniel Negreanu are squaring off at $200/$400 on WSOP.com for at least 25,000 hands. The challenge has been going on for quite some time already and we are seeing more and more interest in, especially that Polk recently started streaming while showing some of his holecards.
