Doug Polk Podcast

I'm sitting down with Garrett Adelstein to discuss some of the craziest gambling stories of our lives.

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Debate rages on about what exactly went down at the 2024 World Series of Poker Main Event. Jonathan Tamayo and Dominik Nitsche were seen on the rail using laptops and software during the final table. Tamayo went on the win the whole tournament and the $10,000,000 prize. Was this in violation of the rules? And what can we do about this in the future? Daniel Negreanu and Alan Keating join the channel to weigh in. 

0:00 Intro 
0:56 Daniel and Alan's summer 
5:58 The RTA controversy, How big is the edge? 
16:59 Where should the line be drawn? 
25:31 How to enforce the rules? 
40:48 Dominik's response 
46:24 Opinion of the masses 
51:01 Rule changes to make tournaments more fun 
1:14:25 GGPoker, Game of Gold 
1:21:14 Aftermath of the Main Event
 1:28:08 Poker is in a good place 
1:33:14 WSOP Winter
 1:43:10 Outro

A shocking turn of events has rocked the poker world. Jordan Griff is an amateur poker player who made it to the final table of the 2024 World Series of Poker Main Event. It got down to heads up against Jonathan Tamayo, with a $10 million first prize at stake. Unfortunately for Griff, his opponent is a long-time professional and was getting help from his supporters with the use of poker software between hands. Today, we're talking to Griff to get his thoughts on this bizarre incident on poker's biggest stage, the WSOP. 

0:00 Intro 
2:02 Jordan joins 
5:06 The Main Event experience 
13:45 The laptop/RTA controversy 
28:10 NGC violations, DQ? Lawsuit? 
31:44 Dominik Nitsche, Tamayos rail 
35:02 The earpiece, Tournaments vs Cash games 
42:23 Outro

Doug Polk is joined by the player at the center of a massive controversy. Martin Kabrhel, who has been accused by several high stakes poker players of potentially cheating in the World Series of Poker $250,000 event, is here to give his side of the story. 

Martin Kabrhel can be reached via email at [email protected] or on Twitter at @martinkabrhell 

0:00 Martin joins 
4:00 Has Martin ever cheated or been banned? 
7:37 Card pressing 
15:32 Standing up mid hand 
20:21 Not coloring up, Sticky fingers 
23:24 The rail, Martins play day 2 vs 3 
26:49 The AT vs KQ hand 
30:52 Giving the impression of cheating 
42:18 Playing $300 and $250k tournaments 
45:16 The Robl tweet 
49:40 Playing high rollers in the future, Rudeness 
57:45 The lawsuit 
1:02:21 Outro 

I just had a very long, very tough conversation with Daniel Negreanu, Phil Galfond, Matt Berkey, Joe Ingram, Will Jaffe, Eric Froelich, and Fernando Habegger (Jnandez). There's been a lot of poker drama and controversies. Let's get into it.

0:00 - Joe Ingram joins 
26:24 - Will Jaffe joins 
55:23 - Eric Froehlic joins 
1:12:20 - Daniel Negreanu joins 
1:56:06 - Shaun Deeb joins 
2:08:30 - Andrew Lichtenberger (LuckyChewy) joins 
2:19:37 - Matt Berkey joins 
2:56:55 - Fernando Habegger (JNandez) joins 
3:43:43 - Kane Kalas joins 
4:04:45 - Phil Galfond joins

Today I'm joined by Ryan Feldman and Nick Vertucci from Hustler Casino Live to bring us a huge update about their upcoming Million Dollar Cash Game. This will be one of the biggest No Limit Hold'em poker streams of all time, if not the very biggest.

Save your spot in the upcoming tournament course on Upswing Poker here: https://upswingpoker.com/road-to-victory-pre-reg 

0:00 Intro 
1:22 The $1M Buy-in game 
14:10 Players announced so far 
14:54 Stanley Tang, JR, Double M 
21:03 Blank Check Ben, Erik Persson, Brandon Steven 
27:42 Charles, Rampage, Rob Yong, Mikki 
46:19 Announcing new names 
53:30 THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT 
1:00:30 What makes a good stream? 
1:13:53 Tracking Poker website 
1:17:40 Berkey vs Airball match 
1:26:44 Ryan's Robbi slip up 
1:37:10 Outro

Garrett Adelstein joins Doug Polk to discuss everything from the Jack-Four hand to Nik Airball's recent comments

There's a bitter feud within the Hustler Casino Live community playing out over Twitter. Nik Airball and other players have had some not so positive things to say about former HCL regular Garrett Adelstein. Nik Airball joins Doug Polk to flesh out his perspective. 

0:00 Intro 
2:22 Nik Airball joins 
2:58 Garrett being "banned" 
13:27 Garrett's game selection 
20:16 Garrett's player rating system 
26:55 Garrett's tweets 
34:54 Nik's heads-up challenge 
39:00 The Robbi incident 
43:58 Garrett + LATB? 
46:13 Mariano, How to play on streamed games 
1:00:03 Why off-stream games play bigger 
1:04:57 More on the Robbi incident 
1:17:26 Will Garrett ever play on HCL again? 
1:24:35 Doug rants about Nik vs Matt Berkey match 
1:27:20 Outro (Upswing Promo)

The man who beat Phil Hellmuth at his own game, Eric Persson, joins Doug Polk to discuss Eric's infamous match vs the Poker Brat, speech play on High Stakes Poker, and playing in big private games.

0:00 Intro
1:33 Eric joins
3:18 Phil Hellmuth and the HU match
19:40 The hand vs Garrett
27:30 Playing on live streams
36:40 Speech play
44:24 High Stakes Poker
49:29 Private games, How to get in?
1:05:59 Managing casinos/cardrooms, More on private games
1:23:07 Outro

It has not been a good few weeks for the cryptocurrency world, and all of the turmoil seemed to start with the collapse of Luna and terraUSD (UST). Doug Polk is joined by CoinFLEX CEO Mark Lamb to talk about the current crypto landscape, why Luna failed, and the future of stablecoins. 

0:00 Intro 
1:40 Mark joins, Markets today 
14:00 DeFi platforms 
26:20 Staked ETH 
32:32 Downfall of LUNA 
40:00 Importance of shorting 
48:00 How to educate people on scams vs legit projects 
55:05 HODLers vs no-coiners, Crypto adoption 
1:05:50 Outro

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