Poker news tagged with 'doug polk'

It all started last week when the 2017 High Roller for One Drop victor Doug Polk took to Twitter to air out his concerns about the coronavirus, sports events getting cancelled, the US Stock Market and Bitcoin plunging, saying it "has an end of the world feel to it".

Read more » Doug Polk and Doyle Brunson in Twitter War over Coronavirus, Atheists, Super/System Book

It doesn’t surprise a lot of us that doing one thing for a long time can lead to boredom, but if it allows one to earn money, then it wouldn’t be such a bad thing, right? However, for one poker pro, he believes he’s done playing the game. In fact, he even announced it in his Youtube channel recently.

Doug Polk said he doesn’t enjoy playing poker anymore, and because of that, he said he’s done with the game he had professionally played for almost 10 years.Read more » Doug Polk announces in Youtube video, “I’m not gonna play poker anymore”

On December 1 Friday, news came out regarding a video footage released by York Regional Police in Ontario, Canada, showing a man being viciously beaten inside an illegal card room which happened on June 9 this year. The police now have openly released the video in the hopes that someone could help in the capture of the suspect, who's still apparently at large.

Read more » Poker Pro ‘Hashtag King' Rumored to be Victim in Video of Debt-Related Beatdown

On October 7, Doug ‘WCGRider' Polk uploaded a Youtube video showing his one-on-one basketball match against Phil Hellmuth in Pittsburgh, a 10-1 odds on a three-point shot on the first try without even warming up. It is Polk's $10,000 versus Helmuth's $1,000. Guess who had the most fun and won in the end?

Read more » Doug Polk vs Phil Hellmuth Basketball $10,000 Prop Bet

The second round of the King of the Hill match courtesy of Poker Night in America has been scheduled on October 6 and 7 (Friday and Saturday) at the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Read more » Doug Polk shall Host Poker Night in America King of the Hill II

The Event #4 final table of the 2017 Poker Masters at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas is witness to accomplished poker players that are used to playing at the highest levels, such as Jake Schindler, Justin Bonomo, David Peters, and Doug Polk, who in the end got beaten up by Brandon Adams at a heads up showdown.

Read more » Brandon Adams Defeats Doug Polk To Win 2017 Poker Masters Event #4 For $819,000

The Poker Masters, a series of 5 high-stakes tournament events that began on September 13 Wednesday and is being held at the Aria in Las Vegas, promises prizes worth millions up for grabs!

Read more » Doug Polk and Fedor Holz say 1% of their Poker Masters Wins will be awarded to a lucky social media fan

Whether this is some sort of practical joke, this most recent Youtube video of Doug "WCGRider" Polk slamming a US$5 million heads-up challenge on Tom "durrrr" Dwan's face looks like it's going to be a very interesting spectacle, should it happen.

Read more » Doug Polk wants to have a heads-up match vs Tom Dwan for $5 million

The winner of the 2017 High Roller for One Drop victor Doug Polk shall be facing off against the world's all-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth for a massive $200,000 on the 4th week of August at the Rivers Casino located just outside of Albany, New York.

Read more » Doug Polk vs Phil Hellmuth in Inaugural 50K buy-in Heads-up Poker Event

On Tuesday, American poker pro and popular video blogger Doug Polk took home the biggest cash of his career after winning the 2017 WSOP $111,111 buy-in One Drop High Roller! Polk bested a field of 130 players to lay hands on the massive $3,686,865 first-place prize as well as his third WSOP bracelet!

Read more » 2017 WSOP: Doug Polk Wins $111,111 One Drop High Roller!

partypoker's POWERFEST concluded last night after 2 weeks with over 300 events and $20,000,000 in guaranteed prize pools. The final night had some big buy-in tournaments, one of which was won by American poker pro Doug "WCGRider" Polk!

Read more » Doug "WCGRider" Polk Wins Big on partypoker!

Douglas "WCGRider" Polk admitted in a video blog a week ago, March 8 Wednesday, that when he was just starting out in the world of pro poker, he idolized Tom Dwan, who was once considered by many as one of the most-feared online cash game players in the world.

However, these days, he said he is no longer a big fan.

In the video blog, the 28-year-old Polk said that Dwan, who goes by the online nickname “durrrr”, might have an enormous outstanding debt to one of the world’s most successful sports bettors.

Read more » Doug Polk: Tom Dwan’s gambling debts could be bigger than previously thought

Doug "WCG|Rider" Polk has recently uploaded to his Youtube channel a remarkable video in which he reviews the top 5 largest pots that high-stakes poker pro Isildur1 ever played, and describes each one in detail.

Read more » Check out the video of Isildur1’s 5 Biggest Pots

Event #35: $3,000 H.O.R.S.E.

After three long days of play, the $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. event's field is down to only three players. The remaining players, who have outlasted 373 other players so far, are fighting for a gold bracelet and a $261,774 first-place prize.

Read more » 2015 WSOP: Brief Updates On All Ongoing Events

Between April 24 and May 8, four of poker's best high-stakes heads-up players took on poker bot Claudico (a computer program created by a team at Carnegie Mellon University) in 80,000 hands of heads-up no-limit Texas Hold'em (play money). The rules were very simple: whoever was up after 80k hands would be considered the winner.

Read more » Poker Pros Win Against Computer Program

Incredible! Phil Ivey has just won his third $250,000 Challenge at the Aussie Millions! In 2012, he bested a field of 16 entries for AU$2 million, two years later he outlasted 46 entries to claim a AU$4 million first-place prize, and this time he defeated a field of 25 entries over two days of play to lay hands on AU$2.2 million!

Read more » 2015 Aussie Millions: Phil Ivey Wins Yet Another $250,000 Challenge!

The $250,000 Challenge is currently underway and there are only three players remaining of twenty-five entries: Doug Polk, Mike McDonald and Phil Ivey, who is in the big lead with 3.7 million chips to McDonald's 1.6 and Polk's 795k. Believe it or not but Ivey won this event both in 2012 and 2014. Now, he has a fantastic opportunity of winning a third title! Pretty amazing when you think about it.

The next player to hit the rail with take home AU$1,041,400, second place pays AU$1,592,500, and the last man standing will get just about AU$2.2 million! Check back in a few hours for a final table recap!

Kory Kilpatrick Wins Event #20: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout

At the beginning of the final day on Tuesday, 10 players had a decent chance of taking down Event #20: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout. Three players, Taylor Pair, Chris Bell and Phill Galfond, were looking to win their second bracelet, but at the end of it all it was Kory Kilpatrick from Georgia who had all the chips. In total, Kilpatrick bested a field of 389 players over three days of play to capture his first gold bracelet and $254,891 in prize money!

Read more » 2014 WSOP: Here Are The Winners Of Event #20-23