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Łukasz Brodzki lol this is so true... dogs always sense danger like that.. they can feel it when their owners are giving them the "wrong" energy eh I swear lol
Ben Sulsky is such a nice gentleman! Even though he had a snap decision, he still was wasting some of his time bank to make you feel better about your bluff. Man of honour
Wait you told us on twitch chat it was KK < AA and I believed you. Trust shaken Because if I can't believe a professional poker player who can I believe?
Maz Illisimo hey man my post werent directed as negative like yours seems to be im honestly interested what his tought process is. just because this one didnt go thru doesnt mean its necessary a bad play / excuse my english and spelling
Welven Da Great Mine was not negative, just saying that I've watched doug alot and have understanding of the game. I can't imagine how that's the best bluff hand. would love to hear why also
how do you make your timer appear as a bar beneath your name like that? mine doesn't show timer until 8 second warning and it's above bet buttons instead of below name
17:09 I'm not a heads up specialist at these stakes but risking 14 000 to pick up 8000.. That has to work so often to be profitable. Why an overbet and not a pot sized bet? For a pot sized riverbet do you expect to get snap called by hands that would fold to an overbet? Like KQ or ace rag?
Hey Doug, While you're a heads up specialist, Ben Sulsky is a very formidable opponent what % chance to win would you have given yourself in this match? Great vids btw
Why are you c-betting the J-8-6 monotone flop with A3 and no cards of the same suit? That board smashes his calling range that has to be literally one of the worst flops to c-bet.
"If you're 4 betting 95 here you have way too many bluffs, I like some bluffs here but you want to be picking some better combos, maybe some 87s and 86s" I mean this literally means you're 4 betting 70% of hands or something ridiculous, please do a poker hands on this and analyse it as if it was someone else because you would be criticising the hell out of Tom Dwan making this play
Ok if you mean 95s is higher than top 70% you may be right, if not please explain. I'm not necessarily saying I agree with the statement but in poker hands videos Doug advocates raising hands based on their value and this hand has no removal effects and no connectivity to improve equity on a flop
John Smith fuck man you are stupid, have you seen any other of Doug's videos? The point I'm making that if another player made this play he'd be saying how bad of a hand it is to be bluffing with and there are better hands, like suited wheel aces or suited hands with more connectivity in general. If he's selecting the best non-calling hands to bluff-which is correct-then he'll be bluffing way way too many hands here and be very unbalanced
hahaha he can call with all those hands you muppet. Those are hands that can easily call and see a flop but would hate to face a 5bet and be forced off their equity. He can already defend with those hands by calling. So he needs to pick a few junky, but not that junky hands that he can 4b bluff with, like 95s. He would not be trash talking this 4b in poker hands (lol obviously). Suited aces and suited connectors are non calling hands when 3bet? You're so bad at heads up dude...
Is it just me or you way overbluffed in this match? Would be cool to see your full review on these heads up's, because I personally don't see that many value hands you could have in certain spots where you bluffed.
You cheaked it on the turn! ok! But shoving all in showed, you didnt have the full house! Should of value betted him? Might have had a better chance of him folding..
I just thought i'd stop in and give Doug a view, a comment and why not, a like as well, -edit- that last hand tho ummm.. sorry doug had to take like away, better luck next time tho, but no worries i didn't dislike, so you're break even
I think this is the perfect opportunity for Dan Bilzerian to make a video reviewing your last hand Anyway that hand wasn't that bad but you would have to shove with a flush too, right?
Doug, would it have made more sense to take a smaller-ish stab at the pot and make it look like a thin value bet trying to get paid off? Maybe 3800 on river? Couldve repped the full house? Since AK could have been in your range?
But then he isnt all in for tournament life. I get what youre saying and agree. But I think a smaller bet wouldve accomplished the same thing his all in did. With the exception that when the opponent goes all in, you can fold and still be alive.
You should've bet the turn on that last hand , made it seem like you could be bluffing , why do you overthink the strategy sometimes ? Someone with a strong ass hand wouldn't check and give someone a free street, he would've folded and he wouldn't have made his hand on the river. I'm not a pro like you atm but to me the logical thing to do was bet if you're gonna bluff
It would be a great match to watch, but without the commentary there is no reason to. Poker is an abstract game and the action takes place within the players heads. Of course Polk can't reveal any of his reads on these opponents, or on heads up in general, or just no reads about anyone he plays against for serious money. I'd rather watch him battle at NL200 and talk openly. Oh well, maybe in 30 years Doug Polk can revisit these matches and commentate on exactly what he was thinking.
I know you played it off like "sometimes you have to just go for it" and I you don't really care about the money, however let's assume you cared even a little, wouldn't you say the right play here is to just fold to his 3bet? 170 bigs deep, at the first blind level, sauce had hardly been 3betting. Except for a head ups match, this hand, by your own Upswing charts, is at the bottom of a raising range in most positions, why take a huge punt when you're so deep with this hand? Specially in position I believe it's either a fold or call and realize your equity post flop? Not that I know better or that you owe me anything but I have to say honestly that I'm a huge fan and a little disappointed that I wasn't able to see you boss your specialty. Seems like you ran really good the first round and then just punted this one off when you were well in the match to make a comeback.
He needs 4bet bluffs and he uses hands like these that are slightly too weak to call the 3bet. Things like how much sauce has been 3betting recently is completely irrelevant.
I didn't say recently, I was talking about this match, seems relevant enough. Not saying you have to automatically assume his 3bet in that hand is strong. But once he calls your 4bet bluff, calls a bet on a AK suited flop, you have to think he has something. Then a queen that completes both flush and straight draws comes in, how many hands is he folding here? Doug didn't even talk about what hands he was trying to get Sauce to fold. How many bluffs does Sauce show up with here? Stop being a blind fan boy, that was a badly played hand and he had no bluff targets. Just a hopeful all in and "FOLDDDDDD", seems like a theme for the series.
No, how Sauce has played in the 50 hands or whatever it is up to this point is not very relevant. What my stance on Doug is is also irrelevant. What you fail to realize, and I will not go too in-depth on this, is that every hand strength is relative. So while three of a kind likely is good in a single raised pot, on this river, facing a 4bet, flop cbet and a river overbet, it is not neccesarily a very good hand anymore. There are tons of hands that Sauce can fold here. He has a lot of hand like Ax, Kx and maybe even some worse pairs. And even if we assume that Sauce calls more than the Minimum Defence Frequency like you claim he is, if Doug is balancing his range properly in this spot, Sauce will be exploited for not sticking to defending a-1. And since we don't know if Doug balances well here since we only have 1 hand and not a meta perspective, we can't really say bluffing in this spot is good or bad. The only thing we can discuss is if this hand is the right one to do it with. And that is another question.
How important is balancing your 4-bets in a 25 hand match or whatever it is up to this point with like one 4-bet in the entire match? What exactly are you balancing at that point?
Look up nash equilibrium poker stratgegies. It's about playing unexploitable and therefore automatically winning against anyone who doesn't do the same. It has nothing to do about table image or anything like that rubbish.
Doug, wtf with that 95s? It was his first? 3bet preflop in this heads up, you 4bet with a crappy hand and just after this flop you are almost sure, you are way behind with his strong range hitting that flop a lot. If you just fold this hand after 3bet, you still could win the game instead of burning $25k.
Dude that shove on the river with 9h5h was ridiculous! Are you even doing that with the nuts? Or betting 5k hoping for a call? No so easy when you don't run like a god! You still hit more sets than Roger Federer!
Actually, he does shove monsters just like that. But based on how the match went (opponent calling bluffs with weak hands), I think Doug just had to be patient and somewhat tighter instead of 4-betting 95s.
This online play is so bad that I'm starting to wonder if it wasn't done on purpose for these possible reasons: Make Doug look like a fish for bigger live games or Doug and Ben made a deal...
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Doug I think you should move up stakes where they respect your raises
Classic cooler. Nothing you could have done.
and irony understanding aint ur fkn thing
lol that whizzing sound was the joke going straight over your head
TryHardFailHard yeah, I think against such a fish in a tournament with such a soft field you shouldn't bluff too much.
16:16 - Binks barked "don't do it!!!!"
Łukasz Brodzki lol this is so true... dogs always sense danger like that.. they can feel it when their owners are giving them the "wrong" energy eh I swear lol
Zoe TheCat yeah how did you know, oh right the bark gave it away xD
best comment! lol
Doug took that "gl hf" too literally. #FunPlayer
I think you should also put hands like Aces and Kings in your 4bet range to balance out your value like 95 SOOTED
15:45 in chat "Doug have you considered that sauce might be seeing your cards during the hand?" lmao
This comment aged perfectly.
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Sauce was a step ahead
what a terrible call by sauce he was blocking 95 geez
xd
8:59 Sauce bet size makes the pot exactly $1337, clear tell.
dennybm ha?
i noticed that and wondered why he didn't comment
nice, the best heads up player in the world vs the youtube guy
lol savage
calculated
BANG BANG
40and7 ie. 40and7's software is the best
to give Polk his credit he did beat Sauce for a LOT in their challenge
Doug Polk the kinda guy to do origami while screaming "FOOOLD! FOOOLD!"
Would you please make a Episode of Poker Hand with this last hand?
Indeed. Wanna see how hes gonna try to justify everything he did lol
bump
He just did it in the lab it's sick
Ben Sulsky is such a nice gentleman! Even though he had a snap decision, he still was wasting some of his time bank to make you feel better about your bluff. Man of honour
Yeah, there's a lot of really big hands Doug can have here given the preflop action, and Sulsky isn't blocking any of them except the royal flush.
two of the best hu nl players in the world playing a 25k with hold cards for doug vs sauce.are you shitting me...this is priceless
anubisflow what's a hold card?
the cards that are showing...doug's
HOOOOOLLLLLDDDDD
Its hole cards, you stupid fish
@jonkotemmer1 you beast typos
When he’s all in on a bluff and you know there’s only 45 seconds left in the video...
No need to watch this till the end guys, Doug ran KK into AA unlucky
TH-cam Vids Come on man no spoilers
actually I am rather pleased for the time savor, thank you.
Wait you told us on twitch chat it was KK < AA and I believed you. Trust shaken
Because if I can't believe a professional poker player who can I believe?
In an alternate universe that bluff got through and everyone is praising Doug for what a boss bluff it was
yeah that flush was like a bluffcatcher there
9 high like a muthafuckin boss!
Shawn Mitchell I Beast high stakes and everything!!!!
Hey Doug, could you say the name of your hands. I'm blind and can't see the hole cards.
9 high like a BOSS!
It seems like Doug always tries to bluff Sauce more than any other player he plays against. Idk maybe it's more personal with them being both so good.
is there content like this on the twitch or what they use to stream?
Who is he talking about at 4:15 ?
Awesome content GG
Poor Doug he can't get away from 95...One of the toughest hands in the game to get away from but I thought if anyone could, it'd be Doug...
"Insert $25,000 to play" graphic is off the charts
hey doug could u explain why the last hand is the perfect bluff hand?
Welven Da Great Yeah, seems like the worst bluff hand lol. No spades but then spades get there, everything got there
Maz Illisimo hey man my post werent directed as negative like yours seems to be im honestly interested what his tought process is. just because this one didnt go thru doesnt mean its necessary a bad play / excuse my english and spelling
Welven Da Great Mine was not negative, just saying that I've watched doug alot and have understanding of the game. I can't imagine how that's the best bluff hand. would love to hear why also
Maz Illisimo ok broski sorry then we have to wait for doig to reply i guess /typing on ph8ne
Probably because its the worst possible hand he could have there
can u drink water like a normal person
lmaoooo this comment made me laugh
Yeah, without being too loosy goosy?
how do you make your timer appear as a bar beneath your name like that? mine doesn't show timer until 8 second warning and it's above bet buttons instead of below name
Where can I find this kind of music in the background??
when he stopped bink from barking to think at 15:20 😅😅😅😅😂😂😂😂
Was there a giveaway
lol
sam goodman oh shit did I forget to mention it?
+Doug Polk Poker what's 5 percent of nothing?
Do I have to pay 5% of losses Doug? If so I'm out
The good old days when Doug actually played poker
I love how this end, big in a bang. Beautiful
17:09 I'm not a heads up specialist at these stakes but risking 14 000 to pick up 8000.. That has to work so often to be profitable. Why an overbet and not a pot sized bet? For a pot sized riverbet do you expect to get snap called by hands that would fold to an overbet? Like KQ or ace rag?
Doug you mentioned that 95hh was one of the best hands to bluff with in that final hand. Would you mind explaining your rationale for that? Cheers
Doug you need a Punt emote on twitch for times like this. That thumbnail from your youtube video 'What A Punt!' would do nicely
Why was 59hh the best hand to bluff in the last hand?
the delay of your stream was more than 3 min? if not Sulsky maybe saw your cards
big fan of the last hand. you have a lot of heart mr doug punt :)
Well played, unlucky KK vs AA, what can you do
If i pay for the training will it teach me how to bluff really badly Doug 😂 gg bro
So on the flop and turn that was a pretty good bluff hand... but on the river not so much.
Hey Doug,
While you're a heads up specialist, Ben Sulsky is a very formidable opponent what % chance to win would you have given yourself in this match?
Great vids btw
Can you do the Turyanski, Beckley and Negranu hand from 2015 main event? I'd be really interested to see what you make of it
Most epic spew job of all time in a 25k yikes
Why are you c-betting the J-8-6 monotone flop with A3 and no cards of the same suit? That board smashes his calling range that has to be literally one of the worst flops to c-bet.
Trance Vocals he wants bluffing hands on club runouts. as he would be betting Ac3x it makes sense to bet A3 without a suit as well. (I think)
Because HU is not 6max
"If you're 4 betting 95 here you have way too many bluffs, I like some bluffs here but you want to be picking some better combos, maybe some 87s and 86s" I mean this literally means you're 4 betting 70% of hands or something ridiculous, please do a poker hands on this and analyse it as if it was someone else because you would be criticising the hell out of Tom Dwan making this play
"this literally means you're 4 betting 70% of hands" god damn you're dumb
Ok if you mean 95s is higher than top 70% you may be right, if not please explain. I'm not necessarily saying I agree with the statement but in poker hands videos Doug advocates raising hands based on their value and this hand has no removal effects and no connectivity to improve equity on a flop
it was a bluff
John Smith fuck man you are stupid, have you seen any other of Doug's videos? The point I'm making that if another player made this play he'd be saying how bad of a hand it is to be bluffing with and there are better hands, like suited wheel aces or suited hands with more connectivity in general. If he's selecting the best non-calling hands to bluff-which is correct-then he'll be bluffing way way too many hands here and be very unbalanced
hahaha he can call with all those hands you muppet. Those are hands that can easily call and see a flop but would hate to face a 5bet and be forced off their equity. He can already defend with those hands by calling. So he needs to pick a few junky, but not that junky hands that he can 4b bluff with, like 95s.
He would not be trash talking this 4b in poker hands (lol obviously).
Suited aces and suited connectors are non calling hands when 3bet? You're so bad at heads up dude...
Is it just me or you way overbluffed in this match? Would be cool to see your full review on these heads up's, because I personally don't see that many value hands you could have in certain spots where you bluffed.
Why punt at the end?
eiyaz00 because punto del este
Reading this comment section,make me wanna laugh to those who says that poker is dead!
Why was the 95h the best possible bluff hand?
You cheaked it on the turn! ok! But shoving all in showed, you didnt have the full house! Should of value betted him? Might have had a better chance of him folding..
Some next level shit by sauce @9:10 to bet 555 to make the pot 1337. The edge is showing
How was 9h5h on a 8hAsKs board "the best possible bluff hand"? What is blocking?
I just thought i'd stop in and give Doug a view, a comment and why not, a like as well, -edit- that last hand tho ummm.. sorry doug had to take like away, better luck next time tho, but no worries i didn't dislike, so you're break even
Poor Doug he can't get away from 95...One of the toughest hands in the game to get away from but I thought if anyone could, it'd be Doug...
Nice punt
If only Doug had J 10 of Spades...
Why did you avoid answering the question about your opponent seeing your cards?
Damn, you Sauce123. Now, because of you, I owe Doug money.
I respect the river value bet in last hand, its sad he didn't show up with 8 high
Wow. I can't believe that's how you went out...
sending me to sleep, trying to stay awake
I think this is the perfect opportunity for Dan Bilzerian to make a video reviewing your last hand
Anyway that hand wasn't that bad but you would have to shove with a flush too, right?
Doug, would it have made more sense to take a smaller-ish stab at the pot and make it look like a thin value bet trying to get paid off? Maybe 3800 on river? Couldve repped the full house? Since AK could have been in your range?
No. Good flushes and any full houses shoves basicaly every time on the river.
But then he isnt all in for tournament life. I get what youre saying and agree. But I think a smaller bet wouldve accomplished the same thing his all in did. With the exception that when the opponent goes all in, you can fold and still be alive.
Waiting to see what sauce would do in that spot was TERRIFYING! Talk about ADDITIONAL UNITS OF ADRENALINE lol
Fuck, what a great guy. He seems so happy
People will just pay off Doug after see this crazy bluff
Can't wait to hear the justification for the punterino cappuccino
You should've bet the turn on that last hand , made it seem like you could be bluffing , why do you overthink the strategy sometimes ? Someone with a strong ass hand wouldn't check and give someone a free street, he would've folded and he wouldn't have made his hand on the river. I'm not a pro like you atm but to me the logical thing to do was bet if you're gonna bluff
I'm screaming, don't do it DOUGIE!! on the the turn and river. He's either got an ace or a flush draw and he's never folding either!
bluffing too much when everybody knows you bluff too much because you put it on line? its really nice that you have the guts to do it tho.
It would be a great match to watch, but without the commentary there is no reason to. Poker is an abstract game and the action takes place within the players heads. Of course Polk can't reveal any of his reads on these opponents, or on heads up in general, or just no reads about anyone he plays against for serious money. I'd rather watch him battle at NL200 and talk openly.
Oh well, maybe in 30 years Doug Polk can revisit these matches and commentate on exactly what he was thinking.
I know you played it off like "sometimes you have to just go for it" and I you don't really care about the money, however let's assume you cared even a little, wouldn't you say the right play here is to just fold to his 3bet? 170 bigs deep, at the first blind level, sauce had hardly been 3betting. Except for a head ups match, this hand, by your own Upswing charts, is at the bottom of a raising range in most positions, why take a huge punt when you're so deep with this hand? Specially in position I believe it's either a fold or call and realize your equity post flop? Not that I know better or that you owe me anything but I have to say honestly that I'm a huge fan and a little disappointed that I wasn't able to see you boss your specialty. Seems like you ran really good the first round and then just punted this one off when you were well in the match to make a comeback.
He needs 4bet bluffs and he uses hands like these that are slightly too weak to call the 3bet. Things like how much sauce has been 3betting recently is completely irrelevant.
I didn't say recently, I was talking about this match, seems relevant enough. Not saying you have to automatically assume his 3bet in that hand is strong. But once he calls your 4bet bluff, calls a bet on a AK suited flop, you have to think he has something. Then a queen that completes both flush and straight draws comes in, how many hands is he folding here? Doug didn't even talk about what hands he was trying to get Sauce to fold. How many bluffs does Sauce show up with here? Stop being a blind fan boy, that was a badly played hand and he had no bluff targets. Just a hopeful all in and "FOLDDDDDD", seems like a theme for the series.
No, how Sauce has played in the 50 hands or whatever it is up to this point is not very relevant. What my stance on Doug is is also irrelevant. What you fail to realize, and I will not go too in-depth on this, is that every hand strength is relative. So while three of a kind likely is good in a single raised pot, on this river, facing a 4bet, flop cbet and a river overbet, it is not neccesarily a very good hand anymore. There are tons of hands that Sauce can fold here. He has a lot of hand like Ax, Kx and maybe even some worse pairs. And even if we assume that Sauce calls more than the Minimum Defence Frequency like you claim he is, if Doug is balancing his range properly in this spot, Sauce will be exploited for not sticking to defending a-1. And since we don't know if Doug balances well here since we only have 1 hand and not a meta perspective, we can't really say bluffing in this spot is good or bad. The only thing we can discuss is if this hand is the right one to do it with. And that is another question.
How important is balancing your 4-bets in a 25 hand match or whatever it is up to this point with like one 4-bet in the entire match? What exactly are you balancing at that point?
Look up nash equilibrium poker stratgegies. It's about playing unexploitable and therefore automatically winning against anyone who doesn't do the same. It has nothing to do about table image or anything like that rubbish.
That was a slow roll at the end
Doug, wtf with that 95s? It was his first? 3bet preflop in this heads up, you 4bet with a crappy hand and just after this flop you are almost sure, you are way behind with his strong range hitting that flop a lot. If you just fold this hand after 3bet, you still could win the game instead of burning $25k.
I think we should abondon the triple barrel when everything gets there on the river lol. Pretty good tv though.
change the music
when ya gonna play schwarz heads up
Lol at the follow at 7:38 (top left corner) Username - EATTURDSERRYDAY
Up $20,000! awesome, just need to win that 5% for poker now. 8-)
Best is the end. FOOOLD, FOOOOOOOLD, FOOOOOOOOLD
Why didn't Doug bet the str8?
The greatest punter of all time.
well that was a giveaway xd jk
Dude that shove on the river with 9h5h was ridiculous! Are you even doing that with the nuts? Or betting 5k hoping for a call? No so easy when you don't run like a god! You still hit more sets than Roger Federer!
Actually, he does shove monsters just like that. But based on how the match went (opponent calling bluffs with weak hands), I think Doug just had to be patient and somewhat tighter instead of 4-betting 95s.
Binks was just trying to help...gg binks
Can you stop yelling, or do something about the massive difference between your normal audio and when you switch to yelling as loud as you can?
A 3 bet with 95 and a call with 9/10 Why do I always get kicked out by aa and kk😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
This online play is so bad that I'm starting to wonder if it wasn't done on purpose for these possible reasons: Make Doug look like a fish for bigger live games or Doug and Ben made a deal...
well played, Doug! Just Ben had good river
man why you blast so hard against a good player?
David Woodward love how this question answers itself
Horrible play last hand
The comments here are tilting as shit. Opinion is fine but talking as fact....
Seeing the very best in the business go full Moldran mode with 59s and punt off like a mook gives me high hopes for my low stakes career
dat hero call with 10 high lol
such a huge bet to just be back to starting chips.
What a goofy ass hand and spot to bluff for your tournament life
R.I.P. Chris Cornell.
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Sick man Doug 25k bluffs living the dream