How I Turned $100 Into $10,000 Playing Poker
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- At long last, I have finished the $10,000 Bankroll Challenge. Let's take a look back at this 2-year journey, recount the many high and low points, take away some lessons on how to build a bankroll at these stakes, and decide where I'm going from here.
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Upswing Article on Bankroll Challenge:
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Subscribe for more wsop vlog, news, comedy, and hand breakdowns. Poker Hands is the show where Doug analyzes live poker hands from tv poker shows such as Poker After Dark, EPT (European Poker Tour), High Stakes Poker, the World Series of Poker (WSOP), the Aussie Millions, WPT (World Poker Tour) the Big One For One Drop, and the PCA (Pokerstars Carribean Adventure). He especially enjoys reviewing hands by popular high stakes pros like Viktor "Isildur" Blom, Fedor Holz, Dan Cates (Jungleman), Tom "Durrrr" Dwan, Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey, and Daniel Negreanu.
Believe or not I actually managed to turn $2800 into $23.79 one time in only 4 Days in Atlantic City!
Sounds believable. I hope you at least stayed at Fox Manor. It's the 'in' place to stay when you're headed for bankruptcy. Hey!, how is it down there since they reopened those two megas on the north end? Dying to go and check it out again but my local dive keeps tempting me with crazy offers.
You sound like a big winner. Come play at my table, I teach you good.
i am literally dead
@@ecosse1982 - Zombie alert!!
@@biggawinnacrapsa3870 can we play knock rummy instead for cigarettes?
Congrats. I did the $100 into zero a few times. I also decided to retire :)
Lol
I retired too, but occasionally I still love to go to the casino, handle some chips, make some bluffs and make some reads. It’s an awesome game! Never give it up completely
,,Never ever and ever give up" - Donald J. Trump
LOL I've been swinging from $20-$60-$20 for over two months now and I'm starting to think if it's profitable anymore.
@@gustavo_fernandez227 bruh he went bankrupt
Now do $10,000 to $1,000,000 challenge
That will be a lot harder cuz you'll face actually good poker players, you can get to 10k$ playing still very small tournaments, multi-tabling etc, but if you play high stakes i assume most players will be lot better.
Elven Mage Jr Easy, turbo. The next-step challenge would be $10,000 to $100,000.
THIS!!
He already has..
He didn’t even do 10k challenge. He gambled cause he can’t beat 6 max cash games. He had to play mtts making excuse rake to high. He has to many leaks
*Wins the challenge.*
*Gets AA instantly on the next hand*
Clemens? Wow was machst du denn hier 😂
😂😂😂😂
Poker: Psyche. Welcome back to being coolered
gg
i love you doug
you cool
gg dude
GG pal. Thanks for so much
Your gf is pretty hot
See ya Doug. I’ve followed you since the 2016 SHRB, will continue to follow you into the future. You’re an interesting and funny man
So much amazing content. Thanks for years of awesome value.
Thank you for the best humor, strategy and editing that TH-cam poker has ever seen. You will be missed.
Jeff Boski Bahski!!!!!
Second that. Love you man. Your editing savage and funny as hell !
Jeff I am literally replying to this comment before I even watch dougs video because TH-cam growth articles say to interact with bigger youtubers so: aodaspojds!
humor? you must have a very weak sense of humor
he isnt dead lol
I turned $3,200 into air on bovada in one day.... felt awesome
I’ve achieved this feat as well.
Sucks you’re shifting away from the game, but I appreciate all the content you’ve created. You’re truly a great person, hilarious while controversial. But you’re such a real person that doesn’t fear speaking his mind. This is gay and deep but I see you being successful doing whatever you attempt, you’ve got the drive that others don’t
Much appreciated Rolando, that's what I like to aim for. (Will still be making some vids here though!)
Or deep
Just don't be deep in gay.
@@MntRprznt Fucking hell 😂
M3nt2 R3pr3z3nt Wow you are so out of pocket 😆 😆 😆
Such a good troll Negreanu's masterclass is the add leading into this video hahaha
even better of a troll today
How can you retire when Unfold Poker is just getting started?
Pokerstars are removing it already. Epic fail for them.
Anthony Nappi he he 👍
I never bothered to try it. I just want to play classic hold em. The game with the power ups is fun tho I have to admit!
Currently doing my own bankroll challenge 10 into 1000 at 72.41
You also making a video? Or just for yourself?
@@doysgermian9287 just for myself
goodluck sir. Enjoy the grind!
I'm going to try to turn this $2 into 200 million in Wednesday's drawing.
@@biggawinnacrapsa3870 remember me if you do!
you could always take over my position at the airport. i parked jets. they let me go, though, because i kept locking the keys in them. one day i was out there on an 86 foot high step ladder trying to get in the window with a coat hanger. that was the last straw for them and i was terminated.
Can't tell if sarcasm or not
@@lucasng4712 can't figure out if airplanes have keys or not
planes dont have keys
Stick to space cowboy, you don't know anything about planes.
You see a lot of 86 foot high step ladders where you live? How about jet cockpits that are 80+ feet off the ground?
wow I cant believe it. I get it because when anything becomes a grind ... well it sux. You are such a great person for the development of the whole game "Poker", and I hope that you continue to help improve the game in ways that propel viewership and participation of the game - world wide. If that is not for you then I hope the best; because when people have good values, and understanding of motivations of others (combined with a good heart) you will go very far in anything that you want to do.
Just let me know when the next home-game is 😎😀😁🤞👍
6 weeks !!! More like 6 years!!! Get Wreckkked!
...it was a joke. "Good work" - Austin Powers
Congratulations Doug! I do believe if I made it and had a satisfying life (meaning freedom) there would be no need to grind 😉 Just happy you showed us it is possible!
4:43 lmaooo “we got first place”, “out of all the places” haha
Screw hand histories, I wanna see how many times the giveaway was mentioned
Wait I thought vanessa selbst retired years ago
Old joke, not original
Retired from being a woman maybe
Original or not, I lol'd
Lol nice troll
thats a gay joke now lamer
I just turned 21 and started playing poker last week. Spent 81 hours last week (Tue-Sun) studying poker theory and practicing online. Went to the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh for my first live game 1/3 blinds. Stacked some regs and was up ~$450. Thanks for all of the advice and hand analysis!
I then proceeded to lose a big hand, along with my nerves and tilted ending the night at -$300
I know the feeling. The swings are crazy. I had a 10 hr session and flopped 5 sets and lost all 5. Super bad run outs!! Lost to 4 flushes and 1 straight 😡😡
Ur reg sir
I'm a 17 y/o chilean, I first went to a casino about 3 months ago with a friend's who looks like me identity card, and it was so slow I lost patience and $400 :) anyway, I have covered it with online poker
Classie issue. But don't step back. Work on your game. It's not a reason to leave your efforts to nothing
Where do you study poker theory? I am looking forward to get the Upswing lab but i don’t know where to learn now.
I almost never comment of videos Doug but I just wanted to say (and hopeful I speak for the majority of your viewers) I have nothing but support for you. You do what makes you happy and that's that. Your content is hilarious and we will always keep watching. All the best
Great achievement. Congrats.
Thanks as always ^^
Doug you went grey doing this challenge, hope it was worth lol
fairly standard for late 20's/early 30's.
This is why I don't understand how anyone can make a living at poker. It took a poker pro a year to turn 100 to 10000.
And let that be THE lesson here boys and girls - quit while your ahead - well done Doug
Here's another lesson, boys and girls: when you write something where you are trying to say 'you are' but want to use the contraction, you write 'you're' instead of 'your' so that you don't come off sounding like an ignorant moron.
Bigga Winna Crapsa That’s fair. You’re an asshole. I’m working on my contraction game.
Someone in twitch chat told me Dougs quitting because he is broke
Luke Merrett - and you believed it!! Here's a hint: when someone is smart enough to take 1st in a poker tournament whose 1st prize is 3.7 million dollars, they're also smart enough to live well on it for the rest of their life.
Bigga Winna Crapsa HAHAHA you should have quit after you made a valid point. MANY poker players who possess the skills to successfully navigate though a field of players DO NOT have the skills necessary to manage their money dip-shit.
It's time for the 10,000 to 10,000,000. You can do it. I'll be rooting for you.
I’m so glad I got to watch you finish the challenge in stream. Thanks for everything Doug and good luck going forward.
I got famous from playing poker on television a decade ago and retired as well. Like you, I just didn't enjoy it anymore. And it's really hard to grind the day to day when the passion isn't there. So I wish you well in your journey Doug. You seem to have a good spirit about you.
"The poker dream is alive"
"Every poker player has moved on"
I did the $10,000 to $0 challenge
beat wishes for all future ventures. thanks very much for dedicating your time to the channel. I know your own poker drive may no longer be burning, However watching your channel has definitely reignited mine. GG
Gambling is a grind no matter what. After 5 years grinding low stakes a smart man said to me, "Become successful in business and you won't have to grind it out at the tables ever again. You'll play for fun and can afford it." I'm so happy I listened. Start a company or make money work for you. Grinding it out at a table is so boring long term. Grinding it out in business leads to forever returns.
What is up with that hair?
I think fellow pro-wrestling fans will find this repackaged tribute appropriate for Doug’s departure:
th-cam.com/video/4NBVn6Ns84I/w-d-xo.html
" also i knew one of my strengths was 10 tabling cash games " fukn beast doug chug one
Just noticed Lambeau Field on the wall. LaLaLa Lambeau!! Packer fans worldwide.
There is a line in poker history... before and after Doug polk dude! Simply the best rep of a trully grinder! Hope we can see u soon! Vamoooo
big big fan here, also you probably dont remember but, im a UPSWING LAB creation and lots of our YT contents for brazilian came from you! Sure i signed lots of others "poker schools" but i REALLY identify my self with u man! Logical thougth with sense of humor and concience rep your image step by step.... i followbefore this poker challenge and said in BR comunity about you and how promisse you where... and now we are here dude... you definently a inpiration for poker comunity and u diserve to hear! MA BEST in any project u wanna get into! you will make it happen man! big fan, but man, why dont u play at pokerstar ????
GG! vamoooo
Appreciate all the content you've created. The best, most interesting, funniest poker content full stop!
Congrats Doug! Motivation!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you Doug for all your content that you have given the poker community! Congrats on your wins, and hopefully one day in the future you will come back. :)
Every time I get a bluff through on the river, I thank you. You are the GOAT!
It's a good journey. It's great that you're connected to yourself in a deep way, and honest enough to admit that the fire wasn't there anymore. I'm excited for what lies ahead for you!
Great vid. For all the people out there who think about career in poker - that's a lot to think about. If it took even such a great player like Doug 58 days straight to make 10k (with days off it would be like 80 or something) - it's around 45k a year - pretty mediocre income to say the least, imagine how hard it will be for an average winning player or even more for a complete beginner! Not even talking about downstreaks, about field getting better and better, and much more. You will be much better off doing something else.
He played about 40 days of micro stakes so you are ACTUALLY wrong :) it was like 10,000 in 15 sessions, so it's almost 150,000/year
@@su2sa1li4 he caught a huge upstreak. You should take that into consideration.
Bruceylancer
If he started out with 10k and played 58 sessions he would probably make more.
Ofcourse your not expected to earn the same money as a good career when you start trying to build a bankroll from just $100.
@@JKenny44 I've already said it, but I'll repeat: he caught a huge upstreak at the last day. Good luck running like that all the time.
Bruceylancer He didn't run like that all the time he was playing for 58 days.
It's no coincidence that the upstreak was on the last day...
How would he ever finish the challenge on a losing day 😅
Its been fun watching you Doug! At the end of the day they only person you have to look in the mirror is yourself. You do what's best for you. Good luck in your future endeavors.
I'm happy for you my man,but this makes me sad.
Thanks Doug. You've inspired me to do my own 100 day sober challenge (ends Oct 19!) and now you have demonstrated that the poker dream of grinding your way up in stakes is still possible. I can't thank you enough for sticking it out and finishing this challenge.
Thank you Doug for the countless hours of poker hand breakdowns. I can't tell you how much of a major impact you have had on improving my game. Best of luck with your future bud
I turned $100 into six figures.
The figure was $0; six times.
“We got first place, out of all the places”
😂😂👍
So like he could pull that money out and buy like a car or something like is all that money actual money??
Always love you stuff, good luck with your future endeavors, hope to see you back the tables one day
I started out with nothing, and I still got most of it!
I love you!!! I'm here... Just lemme know what you doing! I'll be tunned :)
I loved this challenge! To watch a real poker pro take on such a challenge with all of TH-cam watching is insane. Through the highs, screaming expletives and berating opponents, and lows, screaming expletives and berating opponents, the challenge shows that Doug will always have a passion for the game. I know he's not going to be active anymore, so it was a nice send off from a fantastic youtuber and poker pro. Thanks Doug, the content is as always, phenomenal
He won't last 2 months away from the tables. He'll start drinking again and all hell will break loose.
anything but Crypto
Poker and gambling making money in short time is for lunatics :))
I want you to take the "Governor of Poker" challenge on Facebook Games hahahahaha ....
That first "get rekt, get rekt.....what?????? Ahhhhhh" had me laughing bro!!
Doug you by far had the best poker instructional videos ever made. I really enjoyed them and loved the insight into hands you would give. Thank you.
Best wishes for your journey into your new chapter of life, hope you find happiness.
You are a huge inspiration to me! Thanks for being awesome, being funny, and putting out so much content over the last few years. Best of luck on your future endeavors.
Proper English Police...just checking in. You meant "extract" not "extrapolate" @7:37 You're welcome.
Jeff Mitchell someone beat the shit out of jeff mitchell pls
this is like putting Lebron James in a high school basketball game :)
Start video blogging about getting into stand up comedy. I can see you being pretty good at that. You're naturally funny.
Doug - I watch a ton and don’t comment much, but you have taught me so much about applied game theory, range selection and balance. I am a much better poker player having followed your content. I will miss your enthusiasm for the game, your brutal honesty and your sarcastic wit, but most of all, I will miss learning from you. I hope you find your passion for the game again down the road, but if you don’t, you will still go down as an all-time great. Best wishes.
Thanks Doug for adding so much to the poker community especially over the last few years. I was already interested and playing slightly more than a rec level but your TH-cam content and now the lab has progressed my playing ability to make this part time hobby of mine even more fun and profitable. I am going to miss some of the more hilarious poker content as well but hope to see a few of those vids from time to time. I am sure you will be a crusher in whatever direction you choose for the future.
If you fake your death at Aria or somewhere ...you'll prolly become the Tupac of poker
What kind of odds will I get to bet he plays again?
Do a $10K to $100K challenge with live cash games
How do you turn 100 into 10k? River a straight flush... lol that's how
Doug, I want to wish you the very best in life. I've watched your channel for a year or two, and I greatly appreciate your two defining characteristics. You are honest in the facts that you present, and you have a great personality on screen. Oddly enough, I think you could succeed doing just about any type of TH-cam or other mass media content. I've spent 30 years working in advertising and media as a creative director, and I believe I'm a good judge of talent. Your screen presence is probably of greater worth long term than your poker skills. I have no idea what kind of business person you will be, but you clearly have the type of analytic mind that will lead you to success in many fields. Be wary of a whole new world of angles you will surely confront as you get into business. I have long played hold em on a part time basis...small stakes and pretty consistently profitable. But I invest my money versus putting too much at risk. I've never felt like I wanted to be a professional poker player. My life is very good without the risks of poker. I prefer being a free market capitalist, which somewhat emulates hold em at times. I think you're on that same path now, and I congratulate you. You have bankrolled the opportunity for a new adventure, and I wish you all the best in future endeavors that will likely take you to exponentially higher levels of success. Know when to fold em, and manage your stack. :)
I love Doug and the bankroll challenge and watched a lot of the live streams. He got me excited to take some time away from my business to play again to see if it was actually possible to run up a roll on WSOP.com. I love poker in general, but have taken a lot of time off in general to focus on my business. Let me share you my experiences so that it can help a lot of players out there. I would say that it's a lot harder than it looks as a lot of the players on WSOP are conservative on average and not going to punt away a buy-in that easily in a .10/.20 or .25/.50 game. In the 9-ring seems to be a lot easier to wait for hands, but everyone seems to be doing that as well so you run into a lot of cooler situations KK vs AA and the opponents immediately go all in on you after you 3-bet. It also makes it difficult to play AK because you end up a lot of the times up against hands that have you beat or slow played set on the flop after you hit your hand. If your opponents are willing to call any of your bets majority of the time you seem to be beat unless you have notes on them that they are speculative. Now I took a lot of notes on everyone and there are a lot of regs that I see everyday in and out. I do admire people who stick it out to play day after day, but not fun to play against them. Now occasionally there would be players who are making weird plays and ready to punt off a buy-in at less than 100bbs and I took notes of those players as well and always searched for them when I logged into the site several times a day. Those players don't last very long. In the 6-max at .25/.50 the players are fairly aggressive again and there are a lot of regulars that I see day after day on a lot of tables, but it seemed like a fair amount of times they did have it when I got 3-bet and I tried to bluff catch or 4-bet or get it in with AK so had to be more selective in these spots. I went through a lot of buy-ins trying to play against this player pool and I did run it up one time to almost go back to even, but then just more tough hands and tough spots to get back on a down streak. At times I like Doug's analysis and playing style and going with a theory based approach, but I find the opponents I'm up against aren't balanced or tend to be on the tighter side the majority of the time so the bluff catching frequency or trying to bluff them off their hand seems like a losing proposition. I tried going with Doug's more balanced approach and that did work for a bit, but reverted back to a player based approach of fit or fold against players who are just generally tighter and also going back to game selection to find games with at least 1 action player to go up against vs an entire table of very tough and competent players. I'm more of a live player and have over 10K hours in live play and so I do have an easier time sizing up my opponents when I can see them. For me its tougher to play in these micro stakes since I'm used to playing for bigger buy-ins against more speculative players and for me it can be easy to go with a hand or situation for $20 or $50 a buy-in, but they do end up adding up, but these are just excuses vs really trying to beat these games against tougher opponents. I don't want to discourage anyone from trying their own bankroll challenge, but I do agree that you have to want it and work harder than anyone else on the site as your opponents are tougher in general and put up with a lot of ridiculous and crazy situations. But what I do like is Doug does have a plan to battle his opponents and I'm sure his upswing labs has a lot of theory and techniques to beat these games, but I think you definitely need to put in tons of hours to get through the variance and the coolers to get to the good spots. I wish I could see more of Doug's online sessions and I have looked both on twitch and on youtube, but he didn't record all of his sessions. I'm sure I will get a lot of criticism, but I'd like to hear what other players experiences and opinions are on the site and building up a bankroll in general.
I play microstakes and pretty much just pay the bills while my wife is pregnant. She makes more money than me. What you are saying is 100% true, but I am one of those players who puts in the work and I am a pretty consistent winner...I suffer through variance too but I dont play beyond my means and during a downswing im able to re-adjust and play smaller and for more hours to make back money that I have lost. It def is a struggle but I am managing. Thanks for the insight.
"At times I like Doug's analysis and playing style and going with a theory based approach, but I find the opponents I'm up against aren't balanced or tend to be on the tighter side the majority of the time so the bluff catching frequency or trying to bluff them off their hand seems like a losing proposition."
I tend to have similar issues at low/microstakes and have two pieces of advice.
1) If your opponents aren't bluffing enough, you can exploitatively overfold.
2) Even if you don't change your calling frequency in these spots, you should be able to more than make up for it in other areas. If opponents are only getting stacks in/raising with nutted hands, when they show weakness you can bluff them more and value bet them somewhat lighter.
Vanessa + Katie = amazing. Whatever you do... Just don't retire from WC3 :D.
Shad Im probably the only other one who even remotely gets your comment. Lol
Did you mean : "How I got lucky with poor bankroll menagment ?"
You think Doug Polk has been lucky over the course of his whole career or just with this? Because he is one of the greats.
I know how good of a player he is, I just wanted to post a troll comment because he is playing with like 15BI, I know that he is aware of it......
Trolling Doug is fun because he trolls you right back lol
Yep true, it's not really a BR challenge because of the way it played out, it stops being that once br management goes out of the window. The majority of the micros demograph are stuck in micros because of the shots they take outside of their br
Dude I have showed this video to every single person who has told me it takes "luck" to build a bankroll big enough to play for big money. This guy did it at least twice lmao. Awesome.
Aaron Van Drei How does this prove luck wasn't involved? He rivers a set against a higher pocket pair in a huge hand near the end. He checks it down on the river in his very last hand with an Ace,Rag on a textured board that he wouldn't have called a bet to.
@@morganm3362 luck is always involved in situations in poker. It's a game of variance. I'm sure there were more lucky times than the ones we saw in this video. There were also times where he was on the shitty end of some coolers and some suckouts. Both ways are a part of the game. My point is that you can make a graph trend upward and make profit through good play and decision making. That it is a game of skill rather than chance.
who else cried when he said he's not gonna play poker anymore?
I wanna extrapolate money like you one day, dough
What do you think your hourly rate was?
Thanks Doug,
I remember meeting you a couple years ago before you blew up on social media and you were very genuine and caring and would answer any questions from a curious wannab 21 year old poker player!
he is trying to get fish to start playing
this was great
Man, this makes me sad. Remember started watching i couple years ago, you were the reason I started playing poker on a somewhat serious level dude. Good luck in your endeavours! Gg and gl from Norway.
You will do what you are going to due good luck bro, not letting me down just disappointed i think has and aspiring wanna be pro poker player i dont ever want to feel like you about poker, of course it feels like work tho cuz it is hard work but i guess thats why i admire ppl like Phil Hellmuth that makes his on fire burn, i had hope someone like your selft whould try to give him a run for more bracelets but no you retire instead bumer
When I was 17 I put $20 into Stars and got up to $6,000, even with some high stakes stabs that were dumb. Was making $25/hr. God, those were the days, $10 sit n' gos and Collin Moshman's advice was all I needed.
Sad to hear you will stop playing (perhaps you will return to it one day?), but I completely understand why you want to move on. Hope you will continue to be successful with whatever you do from here on out. Actually, I have little doubt you will be.
When's the next giveaway though? Haha good luck dude. You are a huge inspiration and the time alone that simply goes into making your videos is incredible. Thank you so much for all the laughs and strategy over the years. You will be missed.
Thank you for all you have done Doug, I am a midstakes grinder today, was just starting out when I received a promotional from upswing for your postflop game plan and told them I couldn't afford it.,
You personally messaged me and sent it for free, I will never forget that gesture.
You are a good man, thanks. GG
Did you attempt doing the challenge more than once?
what about from 10k To 1Million ? like if you want doug To do it
And just like that he was gone... It was a great run kid. Thanks for all the fun content and poker motivation. Good luck in the future. Hopefully you find something personally fulfilling and rewarding.
You have by far the best poker channel on TH-cam. I watched almost all of them and really enjoyed it. But for every poker player it is a good choice to move on and life a less one dimensional life. You made a great transition already.
Good luck, but I am not sure it's a great idea not to leverage your current audience. The content I have seen on your other channel does not really appeal to me. If you want to be some business analyst I might bite but I am not in for a new defranco
Doug, it was a big pleasure for me to watch all your videos. You inspired me a lot and i'm grateful for that. I will also miss your humor, you're the best :D Thank's again !
all power to you doug, I am a fan fo you as a person more than you as a pokerplayer and I will follow what ever to do next. I hope you will come back to poker again and again. good luck
helluva run, douggy. fair 2 wonder if u peaked as 1 chug douggy & could never capture those highz again
$1 to $1,000 next!
Sad to see you go but understandable. Remember watching you on your very first stream, very first video, very first BAZAAM. You've come a long way and it was fun!
I don't know if you intended this or not but I super want to get back into poker after watching this.....;)
well done Doug i respect your decisions,but the comunity of poker needs more people like you,best of luck for your new journey,GG
PLO is the best way to wager $500-$2000 at a time and eventually I alwsys go on 20-30k runs in a month with a paycheck or two. My issue is I play it like a video game, get cocky and start playing bad. Bank roll management is bigger than being good at the game. Had I invested in Etherium for 15k like I told others on FB to do I would be wortn 4 million now and I almost did. So poker is GREAT for people with no money really. I dont understand milliionares playing outside of fun.
Doug sounds like he needs mushrooms to expand his mind. I hear if you play high stakes nose bleed rail games on mushroons you will CRUSH IT doug. 🎉
5 years late to the party, but...
Imagine you buy into a $3 tourney, and Doug Polk shows up to kick your ass!