Hey man, this reminds me of some of your videos ! Keep it up yourself ☺ PS Also, if you see this, could you consider doing some a la Doug Polk challenge and play some lower stakes PLO zooms ? I play 25 zoom daily, pretty much am a constant winner and would really like to play at least a couple of hands against you, and I am pretty sure I am not the only one with that desire at those stakes, we have some really good regs there !
Excellent presentation. The best I have ever seen and I have seen a lot. You have hit on an effective communication strategy, on of poker thoughts without rambling. Good job.
Mr Doug, thank you so much! I spend last 2 years loosing and I was doing the bad strategy. Now, you show me a really good way to Win. I will become a great Poker player! One day will play in the same table with you! Thank you so much! Have a nice week teacher!
Doug I've commented a couple times on your videos and I am one of those people who asked about bankroll management I didn't get a reply at that point and I thought you know maybe I sound like an idiot but I'm very glad and I thank you for posting this video. I think these type of videos help you as well not just for the fact that you get subscribers and you can make more money but as you are probably well aware the highest level of learning and knowing that you're an expert at something is when you are able to teach it to others so I think this not only helps the community in general from being less of fish but it helps you also get to your next level which I can't even imagine what that is. either way I very much appreciate your videos I'll continue to watch them good luck polk
Love your content Doug. I really just started playing seriously this month and have already won a 70 person MTT and a final table chop in a second one, as well as good results in cash games. Really looking forward to going further, and content creators such as yourself really help to speed the process!
Doug: This is an excellent beginning to a new series. I really appreciate the passion you have for the game. I wish I had the same passion for my current career! Keep up the excellent job of building the game buddy.
I'm gonna take your advice and only play mtts for a while, altough i usually play sngs. but i see your point, every time i play with a bigger buy-in i'll likley end up loosing and it gets frustrating. and if you're running good in a mtt its 10 times more fun!
great job Doug! n thx for explaining your thoughts. I heard you mention red n blue lining as an online poker term.... was interested in asking if there are other scenarios where ppl might misunderstand certain things or even understand them better just by using different poker language like you just did. it helped a lot n thanks again! ...plus I learn new terms! :)
Awesome vid! I think if you put the time in, this channel could become really big. I'd like to see you touch base on some of your poker inspirations and what motivates you, as well as why you chose poker as a profession or when you realized you would be playing poker for the rest of your life.
Hi Doug, cool video! The question is: Which are most efficient ways to study poker and move up through small stake (50-100nl) to mid/high stakes. Thanks!!!
Can you make a video on the mental side of poker? Motivation, playing through a downswing, avoiding getting burned out, not taking poker too seriously etc
OK.. have to say this.. i like both cash games and tourneys.. i dont have access to online anymore, so yea, that might put me behind the 8 ball when facing some players, especially if i get back to WSOP tourney, but... i have busted out of tourneys, sat in cash, won enough money back to pay for the trip, and my entries. i have also had some good tourney results ( for me that is ) and not so good cash, where again, one helped make up for the other. i DO know to , and how to, "switch gears", when going from a $340 tourney, to a $1-$2 NLHE or $2-$5 NLHE.. that really isnt a big issue with me.. Now, even only being away for about 2 yrs since last WSOP event, i have seen some insane new "standard"plays.. cash and tourney.. i see a lot more options ( many thanks to your in-depth videos) from every single position, chip stack, level or buy in amount there just about is. really hope to beef up my game and go play the small series at the Venetian in August. not serious buy-ins.. top for me will only be $340.. but, hey,, thats half a paycheck for us working stiffs.. so yea.. NLHE is the only form i really play ( kill time in Limit holdem waiting for a NL seat ), but i love both tourneys and cash.. if no tourney is up for the rest of the nite i want to play, i sit in a cash game.. i prefer tourneys overall.. but dont see TOO many holes in my cash game that suffer as a result of playing in tourneys.. hope you DO come "Back to the Fold" and put out some more video blogs on poker... i have read a lot of the top books.. and still re-read them as i see serious value in them still today. you just have to NOW, go more to the range, the position, etc,etc,etc, than some of the tips in the books have showed.
Doug, in seems in today's poker as compared to the pre-Black Friday days the notion of the constant continuation bet seems to have changed drastically...can you address this? Ty, Mao.
Awesome! cleared up where i'm losing money in 13 minutes,. I need stop playing 6max nl while playing spin and goes with a tournament on the side, and also just lately live cash games have crept in to the schedule.. Only playing 6 max NL online for me is the best option then, as I've been crushing those games because i've studied it the most, and is my most enjoyable. Before i'd do well in 6 max, but then play spins or tourneys and lose what i made in the 6max games. From now on 1 topic 1 focus. 'Jack of all trades but a master of none' seems to be the apt phrase here. Doug i think i actually love you lol
Thanks for another insightful and interesting video Doug. I'm coming back to the game (micro SNG NL Holdem) after getting taught it ~10 years ago and it's changed and videos like this give me insight and inspiration about how I might be able to improve from being a marginal loser.
awesome new series doug!: quiestion! if i may: u talked about 30-50 buyin's on average seems good for cashgame's what are you thought's on live cashgame's offcourse it's easyer to beat but u also have to concider ppl can buy in double or triple "startstack" does this mean i have to bring more or less buyin's to the table?
I like that you made it poker hands instead of Polker hands, but I really think Polker Thoughts is better than Poker Thoughts. Polker News is of course a pun on your name, and it makes sense. Polker Hands doesn't make as much sense on the double meaning. Polker Thoughts does.
Mitchell Reid I enjoyed reading your opinions. I disagree my comments bring nothing to the discussion. I will continue posting as many comments as I please. Go fuck yourself. How's that?
Whats good Doug! Just want say i like the idea of this video. Topic in future id like to here about is why there isnt more woman in poker. I think its good to talk about this subject! Make the magic happen! I like give ShoutOut to my dog Neko oh and Binks lol
u r the man tho in all srsness, no arse licking, but your opening up my poker brain, I'm going to be interested in my stats pre subscribing to doug polk and post :)
What do you think about using HUD while playing ? It happened to me that, while I was using it, I wasn't a winning player, and when I one day decided to try to play some zooms without it I start winning and am a constant small winner until today without HUD progams. I guess I looked too much at numbers without really considering actual situation on the board those days. Did that happend to anyone else here ?
Can you do a video about how wrong it is to 3-bet to 15bb with 400+ bb behind and then pot comit on 24Q flopp in a 9 handed game even against Tom Donk Dwan? Tom Dwan Win Back $919,600.00 From Barry Greenstein VS Pocket Aces
OK. this is a naive-type question. I play cash games at the Atlantic City casinos. I see regulars. Should I be concerned at all about collusion, or cheating, or anything? Is the playing field generally honest? Anything I should be looking out for?
Hey Doug, I've got a question for you. Lets say I have a bankroll of $100 and I bink a tournament for another $400, now my bankroll is $500. How much of it should I cash out and how much of it should I keep as my bankroll? I tend to do the 50/50 style but would love to know your opinion in this matter :) Thanks! - Shem
Shem Goltz No point in cashing out. And throw the 50/50 rule out the window. If you want to play poker to make money you need a minimum bankroll of $8k. Why $8k, because that's 40 buy ins at 1/2 NL. That's the smallest limit at local casinos. Until you reach $8k all profits should be reinvested in your bankroll. Once you reach $8k and start playing 1/2 full time then you can start "cashing out". Your next goal should be a bankroll of $20k so you can move up to 2/5. Just my two cents.
I can answer that question based on what I've seen from all these internet"pro's" You win at poker by getting it in with the worst of it and sucking out 90% of the time with the edge given to them by their sponsor poker site. Take tonaaaap for instance, how often do you see him go into a flip with the best of it? like 10% of thetime and still he wins 90% of the time.
Those two things... That's a lot of boiling. If people understood truly that this game isn't solved, and brought down to those two, that is taking something with billions apon billions of concepts and turning it into the final two. Awesome video, I wish that 2nd half was a video by itself. Hard to keep telling people go to minute 8-9 ish. Of all the years playing pro, I never actually thought or heard of it like that. Truly appreciate just hearing the extremly boiled version of what we are actually trying to accomplish. Awesome videos as always. (P.s. please make more comical videos for your funny playlist. "Don't do that. Never do this. Pretty much study this hand and don't do any of it" not exact quotes, but honest came to your channel sometimes just for some laughs. Have fun.
hey Doug !, I've got $5,000 should my GTO be 200 SNG on Poker Star's ? of course I would need to move to Mexico just to play lol....Love the video's bro
Doug, it doesn't bother me, really but I figured that since you teach me so much, I can teach you something. The word etcetera doesn't have the sound x in it. It's pronounced exactly as it looks. et - set - ter - ah. I hope you don't take this the wrong way but if you do, oh well, we'll both be okay.
Hey Doug, Id like to hear you talk about "tilt" and how you cope and / or how we should handle it, keep up the great work mate!
You pretty much described me exactly with the part about being happy with just making a certain amount a month at the levels I play.
I like this video. Honest and practical. Keep it up!
Hey man, this reminds me of some of your videos !
Keep it up yourself ☺
PS Also, if you see this, could you consider doing some a la Doug Polk challenge and play some lower stakes PLO zooms ?
I play 25 zoom daily, pretty much am a constant winner and would really like to play at least a couple of hands against you, and I am pretty sure I am not the only one with that desire at those stakes, we have some really good regs there !
If only you guys could know you'd be boxing to give me a colossus seat shortly after
Excellent presentation. The best I have ever seen and I have seen a lot. You have hit on an effective communication strategy, on of poker thoughts without rambling. Good job.
Mr Doug, thank you so much! I spend last 2 years loosing and I was doing the bad strategy. Now, you show me a really good way to Win. I will become a great Poker player! One day will play in the same table with you! Thank you so much! Have a nice week teacher!
Doug I've commented a couple times on your videos and I am one of those people who asked about bankroll management I didn't get a reply at that point and I thought you know maybe I sound like an idiot but I'm very glad and I thank you for posting this video. I think these type of videos help you as well not just for the fact that you get subscribers and you can make more money but as you are probably well aware the highest level of learning and knowing that you're an expert at something is when you are able to teach it to others so I think this not only helps the community in general from being less of fish but it helps you also get to your next level which I can't even imagine what that is. either way I very much appreciate your videos I'll continue to watch them good luck polk
Love your content Doug. I really just started playing seriously this month and have already won a 70 person MTT and a final table chop in a second one, as well as good results in cash games. Really looking forward to going further, and content creators such as yourself really help to speed the process!
This is the best Informational video about poker I've watched in a long time. Please make more videos like this.
Thanks Brian! I am planning on trying to do 1-2 of this series a week.
Doug Polk awesome! It's just the info I needed at this stage in my poker career.
You are great. I hope you will upload a lot more content on youtube.
i would love to see some HU strategies and tips. thank you
Doug: This is an excellent beginning to a new series. I really appreciate the passion you have for the game. I wish I had the same passion for my current career! Keep up the excellent job of building the game buddy.
Great content since you've added all these different series doug!
I'm gonna take your advice and only play mtts for a while, altough i usually play sngs. but i see your point, every time i play with a bigger buy-in i'll likley end up loosing and it gets frustrating. and if you're running good in a mtt its 10 times more fun!
Every new Doug Polk video gets the blood flowing in the right places Kreygasm
great job Doug! n thx for explaining your thoughts. I heard you mention red n blue lining as an online poker term.... was interested in asking if there are other scenarios where ppl might misunderstand certain things or even understand them better just by using different poker language like you just did. it helped a lot n thanks again! ...plus I learn new terms! :)
I play professionally and I just have to say this was a great video, especially the last minute or so- thanks!
Loved the video and looking forward to more in the series. Need to put my thinking cap on for questions I need answering (that aren't to obvious :D)
Superbly explained Doug. Thank you.
Love the series! Thanks for this valuable content. You are awesome!
Best video yet, keep em coming!
One of the best vids you put out. I think we're gonna like this series.
Awesome vid! I think if you put the time in, this channel could become really big. I'd like to see you touch base on some of your poker inspirations and what motivates you, as well as why you chose poker as a profession or when you realized you would be playing poker for the rest of your life.
Hi Doug, cool video! The question is: Which are most efficient ways to study poker and move up through small stake (50-100nl) to mid/high stakes. Thanks!!!
Can you make a video on the mental side of poker? Motivation, playing through a downswing, avoiding getting burned out, not taking poker too seriously etc
Hey Doug how should you handle losing streaks? Move down in stakes? Take a short break from poker?
OK.. have to say this.. i like both cash games and tourneys.. i dont have access to online anymore, so yea, that might put me behind the 8 ball when facing some players, especially if i get back to WSOP tourney, but... i have busted out of tourneys, sat in cash, won enough money back to pay for the trip, and my entries. i have also had some good tourney results ( for me that is ) and not so good cash, where again, one helped make up for the other. i DO know to , and how to, "switch gears", when going from a $340 tourney, to a $1-$2 NLHE or $2-$5 NLHE.. that really isnt a big issue with me..
Now, even only being away for about 2 yrs since last WSOP event, i have seen some insane new "standard"plays.. cash and tourney.. i see a lot more options ( many thanks to your in-depth videos) from every single position, chip stack, level or buy in amount there just about is. really hope to beef up my game and go play the small series at the Venetian in August. not serious buy-ins.. top for me will only be $340.. but, hey,, thats half a paycheck for us working stiffs..
so yea.. NLHE is the only form i really play ( kill time in Limit holdem waiting for a NL seat ), but i love both tourneys and cash.. if no tourney is up for the rest of the nite i want to play, i sit in a cash game.. i prefer tourneys overall.. but dont see TOO many holes in my cash game that suffer as a result of playing in tourneys..
hope you DO come "Back to the Fold" and put out some more video blogs on poker... i have read a lot of the top books.. and still re-read them as i see serious value in them still today. you just have to NOW, go more to the range, the position, etc,etc,etc, than some of the tips in the books have showed.
great vid, do more videos about the mental-game side of poker.
also, more freestyle rapping and wc3 replays xD
lol doug i saw you jumping up and down trying to get in the view of the camera from behind a guy at the table at wsop ME 2016.
Doug, in seems in today's poker as compared to the pre-Black Friday days the notion of the constant continuation bet seems to have changed drastically...can you address this? Ty, Mao.
I play on ignition casino, never heard of rake back lol
Tipic: Impoving when getting stuck (Have been playing for a long time and you have you clue what to do next to improve)
Awesome! cleared up where i'm losing money in 13 minutes,. I need stop playing 6max nl while playing spin and goes with a tournament on the side, and also just lately live cash games have crept in to the schedule.. Only playing 6 max NL online for me is the best option then, as I've been crushing those games because i've studied it the most, and is my most enjoyable. Before i'd do well in 6 max, but then play spins or tourneys and lose what i made in the 6max games. From now on 1 topic 1 focus. 'Jack of all trades but a master of none' seems to be the apt phrase here. Doug i think i actually love you lol
Also, polker news is way to funny, please don't stop doing that.
Awesome video. Thank you Doug!
Pure truth... thanks doug!
loved this video Doug . very well said.
being on the winning side of coolers creates winning in poker ;-)
Lol the problem is you get cooled just as often
Doug Polk is just great
Thanks for another insightful and interesting video Doug. I'm coming back to the game (micro SNG NL Holdem) after getting taught it ~10 years ago and it's changed and videos like this give me insight and inspiration about how I might be able to improve from being a marginal loser.
awesome new series doug!: quiestion! if i may: u talked about 30-50 buyin's on average seems good for cashgame's what are you thought's on live cashgame's offcourse it's easyer to beat but u also have to concider ppl can buy in double or triple "startstack" does this mean i have to bring more or less buyin's to the table?
I like that you made it poker hands instead of Polker hands, but I really think Polker Thoughts is better than Poker Thoughts. Polker News is of course a pun on your name, and it makes sense. Polker Hands doesn't make as much sense on the double meaning. Polker Thoughts does.
Suddenly using Polker in everything because he used it in Polker News is overkill.
Mitchell Reid 1. Ok 2. it's a fact
Mitchell Reid I enjoyed reading your opinions. I disagree my comments bring nothing to the discussion.
I will continue posting as many comments as I please. Go fuck yourself. How's that?
Mitchell Reid Lol that sounds like me but I've been posting a lot lately so it might be someone else I suppose.
Mitchell Reid
This is the real John Smith for sure. The other one has a picture.
Good video. And great advice
value-town baby!
Damn this is so great. Thanks Doug!!!!
His Doug, can you do a video on best way to train for live 9 ring cash games online ? eg zoom , sit and go's, heads up, I think all these skills help?
ur the best doug
well said 👍
there is a poker question i ve always had.... what is the analogy of the ''right play'' vs ''playing the opponent play'' in poker?
Whats good Doug! Just want say i like the idea of this video. Topic in future id like to here about is why there isnt more woman in poker. I think its good to talk about this subject! Make the magic happen! I like give ShoutOut to my dog Neko oh and Binks lol
What about non suited connectors as a topic lol been getting to find something on it but can't.. just suited connectors
cool tips, thanks! gl - find those spots - have fun - never give up!
"the first half of a 1000-mile journey is 999 miles."
nice content thanks Doug
Hi Doug...can you make a video on button straddle games from all positions. thx
u r the man tho in all srsness, no arse licking, but your opening up my poker brain, I'm going to be interested in my stats pre subscribing to doug polk and post :)
Good episode Dolg.
What do you think about using HUD while playing ?
It happened to me that, while I was using it, I wasn't a winning player, and when I one day decided to try to play some zooms without it I start winning and am a constant small winner until today without HUD progams.
I guess I looked too much at numbers without really considering actual situation on the board those days.
Did that happend to anyone else here ?
Great Video!
Greetings from Costa Rica
great content. thanks, keep it up
I'd like you to talk about mindset. Especially motivation.
Sick vid Doug , Thanks for the advice :D
Can you do a video about how wrong it is to 3-bet to 15bb with 400+ bb behind and then pot comit on 24Q flopp in a 9 handed game even against Tom Donk Dwan?
Tom Dwan Win Back $919,600.00 From Barry Greenstein VS Pocket Aces
keep it up douggi, u are great for poker dude
Doug! I play progressive k.o turneys mostly, but when I run really deep most people have a higher bounty than me, what's that say about my weakness?
Thanks for the wisdom Doug boss I only love PLO
would be good to hear you speak generally about tilt
Great video bro
Nice video Doug
OK. this is a naive-type question. I play cash games at the Atlantic City casinos. I see regulars. Should I be concerned at all about collusion, or cheating, or anything? Is the playing field generally honest? Anything I should be looking out for?
I just cant imagine myself giving up on playing tournaments and cash games just for the sake of focusing at ONE!! how bad can it be, why not both?
nice one
Doug, what's a good site to play on for New Yorkers?
great video
could have also been "how to win at trading", same mindset, good video!
Great video.
Hey Doug, I've got a question for you. Lets say I have a bankroll of $100 and I bink a tournament for another $400, now my bankroll is $500. How much of it should I cash out and how much of it should I keep as my bankroll? I tend to do the 50/50 style but would love to know your opinion in this matter :) Thanks!
- Shem
Shem Goltz No point in cashing out. And throw the 50/50 rule out the window. If you want to play poker to make money you need a minimum bankroll of $8k. Why $8k, because that's 40 buy ins at 1/2 NL. That's the smallest limit at local casinos.
Until you reach $8k all profits should be reinvested in your bankroll. Once you reach $8k and start playing 1/2 full time then you can start "cashing out". Your next goal should be a bankroll of $20k so you can move up to 2/5. Just my two cents.
Take the 500 bucks and never play poker again
where do players play in the us online if they don't live in new jersey or nevada?
Where did you get that shirt?
UpswingPoker.com , click clothing in the top left
some ppl (including me) ask you some serious poker questions that they remain unanswered...and you reply to a chick for a fucking tshirt...gj
I can answer that question based on what I've seen from all these internet"pro's"
You win at poker by getting it in with the worst of it and sucking out 90% of the time with the edge given to them by their sponsor poker site.
Take tonaaaap for instance, how often do you see him go into a flip with the best of it? like 10% of thetime and still he wins 90% of the time.
Really helpfull video :)
Thank god that's a hotel room. The flower paintings threw me lol.
Does anybody know what poker tracker fees uses for bovada/ignition? Ive wanted to get one for many months now. I just need one for SNGs. Thanks.
Regarding 10:40 - OTB is playing GTO, it´s confirmed
Welcome to SD, you playing some cash games? Oceans 11?
Mastery is a moving target ;)
Have you considered calling it polker thoughts?
Those two things... That's a lot of boiling. If people understood truly that this game isn't solved, and brought down to those two, that is taking something with billions apon billions of concepts and turning it into the final two. Awesome video, I wish that 2nd half was a video by itself. Hard to keep telling people go to minute 8-9 ish. Of all the years playing pro, I never actually thought or heard of it like that. Truly appreciate just hearing the extremly boiled version of what we are actually trying to accomplish. Awesome videos as always. (P.s. please make more comical videos for your funny playlist. "Don't do that. Never do this. Pretty much study this hand and don't do any of it" not exact quotes, but honest came to your channel sometimes just for some laughs. Have fun.
hey Doug !, I've got $5,000 should my GTO be 200 SNG on Poker Star's ? of course I would need to move to Mexico just to play lol....Love the video's bro
Jackie Williams canada?
any good book recommendations?
Jonathan little
upswingpoker.com
Which rapper are you the poker game version of: A) Jay Z B) Snoop C) Vanilla Ice or d) Nicki Minaj ?
good vid
i declined a 100% reload bonus on party because they deny HUD on cash tables
good
The intro is $$$$
Hey Doug I have $1 what should I be playing ? Lol 😂
Doug, it doesn't bother me, really but I figured that since you teach me so much, I can teach you something. The word etcetera doesn't have the sound x in it. It's pronounced exactly as it looks. et - set - ter - ah. I hope you don't take this the wrong way but if you do, oh well, we'll both be okay.
can you discuss which poker client has the most beautiful software?
BetSafe and PartyPoker
pokerstars by far. It's not even close.
Very simple commit money when you got more equity and fold when u got less equity.
where can you even play online in america?places where i can actually get my money out, and a movile app would be nice
Cyrus Lever ignition and betonline are the biggest, and Ignition has a mobile app
would very much appreciate a short ToC in the beginning of the video
like the "abstract"-section in scientific papers
like "this is a video-paper" covering a certain topic, right?
pink?
please doug
Hi Doug, how should I go about living my life?
PLEASE TELL ME WHERE DID YOU GET THIS SHIRT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WANT ONE SO BAD
UpswingPoker.com click on clothing
'don't be satisfied with 3K a month!' ... what? .. that's twice my current income...i'd do anything for 3K a month. :o