POLK Puts NEGREANU In The BLENDER!!!
Published 2024-01-18
Perhaps one of the most curious decisions in this entire poker hand was the decision from KidPoker to check back the turn. This is a perfect spot to bet your straights, sets, and a few bluffs. Was this a slip up from Negreanu? Negreanu must believe that Doug Polk will be drastically over-bluffing the river!
Perhaps we shouldn’t be too quick to discredit Negreanu’s decision-making. At 49 years old, he is in the top 10 on the all-time poker money list with over $51,500,000 in total live earnings, alongside 6 World Series of Poker bracelets.
Originally from Toronto, Canada - but currently residing in Las Vegas, USA - Negreanu grew up playing primarily cash games and has appeared on many popular poker shows, such as High Stakes Poker, Poker After Dark, and High Stakes Duel (he won the most recent season beating Eric Persson and Doug Polk, claiming $200,000 in winnings and the championship belt!)
Doug Polk is a part owner of The Lodge Card Room, along with Brad Owen and Andrew Neeme. Doug has over $10,000,000 in live tournament earnings and 3 WSOP bracelets, which includes a win in the $100k Super High Roller for $3,686,865 in 2017.
The High Stakes Feud started in November 2020 from inside the PokerGO Studio, as Doug Polk and Daniel Negreanu sat down to play their first session of the 25,000-hand quota that would see the two battle online, playing two tables of $200/$400 No-Limit Texas Hold'em (NLHE).
Daniel Negreanu won the first and only live session of the High Stakes Feud, winning $116,500 from the 200 poker hands they played. However, Doug Polk ended up beating Daniel Negreanu in the High Stakes Feud for just over $1,200,000.
🃏 Preflop:
In this gripping heads-up marathon between Daniel Negreanu and Doug Polk, we join hand #97 when Negreanu looks down at Q6h from the small blind. With the blinds at $200/$400, he bumps it up to $1000. Doug makes the easy call with his QTo.
🔥 Flop: 9c 8h 5d
Doug checks it over to Negreanu, who fires out for $1,500 with his gutshot. Doug, who has a gutshot of his own, calls.
💪 Turn: 7h
An action packed turn improves Doug to a two-way straight draw. He checks it over to Negreanu, hoping to see a cheap river.
But there should be no chance of that, as the second heart arrives on the felt, completing Negreanu’s straight draw and giving him further insurance in the hand with a flush draw!
How much will Negreanu charge Doug to see the river? Can Doug hit a miracle 14% out and steal the hand from Negreanu? Tune in to this poker video to find out!
Jonathan Little analyzes live poker hands from TV poker shows such as Poker After Dark, Hustler Casino Live, The Lodge Poker Club & PokerGO. He also analyzes popular poker vloggers such as Rampage Poker, Brad Owen, Jaman Burton, Ashley Sleeth, Wolfgang Poker and others!
You will also find many poker hands on this channel that contain some of the biggest names in the poker world such as; Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey, Doug Polk, Garrett Adelstein, Tom ‘Durrrr’ Dwan, Dan ‘Jungleman’ Cates, Fedor Holz & many more!
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All Comments (21)
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Hellmuth vs Tony G would have potential to be entertaining.
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Thanks a lot for not covering HCL for a change, nice to see you cover hands from actual pros! To me when a one liner to a straight higher than my own comes on the river it's time to check back rather than let Doug have the chance to check raise and I have a tough decision to make (I would definitely fold).
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Ungar vs Ivey
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I’d like to see you play one of these legends HU. Ivey, PH, Dnegs, etc. I don’t see a lot of your play, just videos, books & such. One of the reasons you’re my favorite go to when I study is your play style and history of loving strategy games mimics mine. Started in MM boom on SnGs then to MTTs then to most all formats except high low games because I just haven’t studied this enough. I used to win in the 2003-2012 era before the crash in US by being hyper aggressive. Took 9 years off came back and wasn’t winning online. People had gotten better. Studied you and others for 6 months and started binking both live and online which I find much tougher now especially at the $ & above buy ins (online). I think they play about like a 1k live.
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Stu Ungar vs Tom Dwan
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Thanks John 😁
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Me vs Jonathan Little 💪 😂
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Dwan vs Rui Cao. That will be a insane match. Remember the 7-2 !
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Heads up for rolls: Jungle vs Tom
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Really love your videos man, love hearing what you have to say
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Martin Kabrhel vs. Shawn Sheikan
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Doyle vs Seidel. The two players that were successful longer than anybody.
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Gonna be a bit weird, but I’d love to see nik air all vs any top level pro, just to see him lose multiple buyins.
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Doug Polk Vs Berkey would be fun. I imagine Doug would have to give Berkey a few BB’s/100 to get the negotiation over the line mind you.
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Tony G against Phil Hellmuth
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Is this the biggest fold ever? I mean he has the 3rd nuts in a spot where having the 2 better hands isn't impossible or even unlikely.
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U vs. BlackRain
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Doc Holiday vs Wild Bill Hancock
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Please do some videos with Haxton :)
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Brunson Vs Chan would be epic. 2 icons. Also Ivey Vs Dnegs Watching Hellmuth battle Addamo would be extremely entertaining! 😂
