Ep 81 - Breaking Down The Doug Polk vs Daniel Negreanu Heads Up Battle

Cracking Aces

Barstool Sports

Sports, Leisure, Games

4.6 • 887 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Polk vs Negreanu is the poker feud that never ends. They are gearing up to play a massive heads-up battle, and Doug Polk is firing shots left and right at anyone who gets in his way (on Twitter). We break the whole thing down, preflop charts and all, and give our hot takes on all of it. We also talk about mid-cashing tournaments, doing your taxes, and answer a few of your poker questions. F Norman Chad.

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0:00.0	What's up, Cracking Ace's listeners? You can find every episode on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and Prime
0:07.2	members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:15.0	I haven't played a poker tournament since July. Damn Daniel. I got second in that tournament that we talked about last week and then I got
0:22.0	10th in a tournament so I final table bubbled and that
0:27.1	sucked because the difference between 10th place for $600 that obviously I'm just going to donate back in like three
0:35.4	seconds and first place for $9,000 which obviously it will take me longer to
0:40.8	donate back is such a big difference.
0:44.3	That is a big difference.
0:46.8	That's what happens when you get 10th in the tournament.
0:48.6	It's usually a pretty big difference
0:49.9	between 10th and first.
0:51.4	It's because I Hero- Called with like 11 left with second pair and he had the
0:56.7	firstest of pair and probably like three other pairs on the board as well. It was not my
1:01.8	best euro call. That's tough. I'm sorry. I wish you won. I've gotten a bunch of other like, what do you even call them? They're not Min-Cat. Mid-Cashes? Is that a phrase? Mid-Cashes? I've never heard that, but I like it. That could be a thing.
1:17.3	I've got a bunch of mid-cashes, but nothing good. You're making some runs, that's what you mean.
1:23.6	I've what?
1:24.4	You're making some runs.
1:27.2	Yeah, but are they really runs if like 90 people pay and you finish like 54th.
1:34.0	That's like a mini run. That's not really a run.
1:36.0	Yeah, it's a mid-cash.
1:38.0	You can't pay the bills with mid-cash.
1:40.0	I mean, it may as well still be a mid- not a mid cash I'm sure I'm sure that the pay out
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