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Polk started a YouTube channel, Doug Polk Poker in 2016. [7] In 2015, Polk was selected to play heads-up no limit hold'em against A.I. poker bot Claudico, along with professional poker players Dong Kim, Jason Les, and Bjorn Li. Each player was set to play 20,000 hands against Claudico for a team total of 80,000 hands.
In June 2023, PokerGO announced that Doug Polk would be stepping in to play Negreanu in Round 2 for $100,000 each. [38] On August 24, 2023, Polk took his seat in the challenger seat across from Negreanu. Polk took the early lead with an all-in river shove holding a flush, but Negreanu stormed back into the lead after flopping a flush with ace-jack.
Later, professional poker player Doug Polk released a video questioning the ethics of the hand played during the episode. [7] [8] During the hand, larger denomination chips totaling $10,000 were placed behind smaller denomination chips in Torelli's stack of poker chips. Poker etiquette and rules in casinos require that larger denomination chips ...
Tom Dwan knows when to hold 'em. The poker pro made history Tuesday night, calling down multiple bets from self-proclaimed cryptocurrency millionaire Wesley Fei for a $3.1 million pot, the largest ...
The humans went on to increase their lead, winning the match by 732,713 chips. Polk finished up 213,000, Li won 529,000, Kim beat Claudico by 70,000, and Les finished down 80,000. A total of 170 million chips were bet over the 80,000 hands. Polk said Claudico had played well in spots, but also made some bad plays.
In December 2020, a new season of High Stakes Poker aired on PokerGO and included returning players Tom Dwan, Phil Hellmuth, Brandon Adams, and Phil Ivey, while also introducing new players to High Stakes Poker including Jason Koon, Jean-Robert Bellande, Bryn Kenney, Doug Polk, Michael Schwimer, and Chamath Palihapitiya. [6] [7]
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In 2017, the show presented King of the Hill, a series of $50,000 buy in heads up sit & gos with players such as Daniel Cates, Phil Hellmuth, Doug Polk, Olivier Busquet, Dan Colman and Parker Talbot competing for a $200,000 prize. [5] [6] [7] Joe Stapleton and Chris Hanson were the commentators for the first 6 seasons.