Episode 159: 1-on-1 with Poker End Boss Doug Polk
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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2021
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan sits down with Doug Polk, who just beat Daniel Negreanu for $1.2 million in a highly publicized heads-up blood match. They discuss how the match happened, how Doug prepared, the current state of poker and Daniel's "luck" mantra. They also hit on YouTube content creation, Doug's potential aspirations in politics, the NFT space and lots more. Finally, Doug answers Listener Questions ranging from his sock choice to how he's deciding where to move.
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TIMESTAMPS: Doug’s Start in Poker (1:38) | Polk vs. Negreanu Challenge (5:41) | Preparation for Negreanu (17:54) | Are Poker Advancements Ruining Poker? (19:29) | Poker/Football Game Theory Similarities (24:44) | Nice Guy Doug (28:35) | Signed NDA? (31:17) | Unlucky Negreanu? (31:55) | Doug’s Future in DFS (37:34) | Nice Guy Doug (28:35) | Doug Polk - YouTube Poker Star (39:17) | Dipping Toes Into Politics (45:45) | TopShot and NFTs (50:24) | Doug’s Next Ventures (55:46) | Views on P2P Competitions (1:00:30) | Phil Helmuth’s $10K 3-Pointer (1:02:38) | Doug’s Poker Team (1:05:02) | Was Online Poker The Edge? (1:06:30) | Old Man White Socks (1:08:30) | Doug’s Limping The Button (1:10:04) | Doug’s Next Relocation (1:12:00) |
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 159 of the official EstablishTheRun.com podcast. |
| 0:25.7 | My name is Adam Levittant. |
| 0:27.2 | I'm one of the co-founders here at ETR and today we have |
| 0:29.9 | a very, very special guest is a guy who conquered the poker streets, conquered the YouTube |
| 0:35.3 | streets, conquered the marketing streets, was trying to conquer the retirement streets |
| 0:40.2 | until Daniel Negrano inexplicitly lost his mind and decided to give him action is, of |
| 0:45.2 | course, Doug Polk, founder of UpswingPoker.com, Doug, thanks for being here, what's going |
| 0:50.3 | on? |
| 0:51.3 | Appreciate having me. |
| 0:52.5 | I just wrapped up a highly publicized heads-up poker challenge for those of you that |
| 0:58.3 | followed it or didn't follow it. |
| 0:59.6 | I basically played a 25,000 hand match against a well known poker player, Daniel Negrano, |
| 1:06.0 | in one-on-one unlimited Texas hold-em. |
| 1:09.8 | Lots of money was wagered. |
| 1:11.5 | The buy-ins were 40,000 and then obviously they recited about some stuff as well. |
| 1:15.6 | And I ended up walking away with $1.2 million after three months of intense grinding. |
| 1:20.4 | So yeah, it's nice to have finally finished that up. |
| 1:25.1 | Do a bit of a victory lap here and talk about my experience and yeah, thanks for having |
| 1:30.1 | me on today. |
| 1:31.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:32.1 | I mean, you're underselling the whole lead up to it though and I want to get into the |
| 1:35.0 | lead up to it in the beginning because there were so many laws along the way. |
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