Doug Polk Podcast

Doug Polk is joined by the 2021 World Series of Poker champion, Koray Aldemir, to discuss a lot of hands from Koray's $8 million win, battling fearless amateur George Holmes heads-up, and more.

Shownotes with the hands Koray and Doug discuss: https://upswingpoker.com/aldemir-show-notes

0:00 Intro
1:59 Koray joins
3:55 Germans in poker, Being an MTT professional
13:00 Main Event mark-up and ROI's
21:51 Hand histories from Koray's first 3 days of the Main 
31:14 The Bubble, The toll of long days and the pressure
41:23 FT Bubble, The speed of play
48:47 Big blind ante, Shot Clocks
54:00 More hand histories from Koray's Main Event
1:09:33 The Heads-Up
1:33:45 Being a WSOP Main Event Champion
1:38:54 Koray's advice to aspiring poker players, Outro

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Doug Polk is joined by poker pro Josh Arieh to talk about winning the 2021 World Series of Poker Player of the Year title, trash talking Phil Hellmuth, and more.

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0:00 Intro
1:34 Josh joins 
4:42 Pool, Cash vs Tournaments, Fortnite
17:22 Josh's POY run 
25:50 Tournament poker, Jungleman 
44:45 Importance of a good mental state 
51:22 Phil Hellmuth, Charity
1:01:55 Winning POY, Stud, Scott Seiver 
1:13:30 PocketFives Staking, Dealing with mark-up 
1:23:35 Outro 

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CoinFLEX CEO Mark Lamb joins Doug Polk to talk about the effect of regulation on Americans, DeFi in 2021+ and more.

0:00 Intro
1:12 Mark joins
3:02 Stablecoins, USD vs EUR
13:57 US Regulation, $SHIB vs a House, Leverage
31:34 flexUSD
43:00 More on stablecoins
56:33 Could the government attack the crypto space?
1:08:10 DeFi explained
1:33:28 Future of smart contract platforms
1:43:27 Outro

Long-time poker pro and CardRunners founder Taylor Caby joins Doug Polk to talk about playing poker in the boom years, starting the first major poker training site, and more. 

0:00 Intro
1:14 Taylor joins, CardRunners/Upswing
12:26 Online poker in 2003
20:44 Online poker today
34:07 Quitting poker, Starting DraftDay, DFS talk
44:23 Establish The Run
51:00 Are training sites ruining the games?
56:40 Building niche communities
1:04:17 Doug gets into self tanners
1:13:03 CryptoPunks
1:25:22 Crypto market, Poker players in Crypto
1:35:07 The similarities of Doug and Taylor
1:45:12 Outro

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Main Event runner-up David Williams joins Doug Polk to get you up-to-speed on the 2021 WSOP so far. Topics include a Rio hotel room robbery, notable winners and more.

0:00 Intro
0:54 David joins
5:40 What has the WSOP been like so far?
17:31 The Phil Hellmuth blowup
31:30 Robberies at the Rio
45:35 The Ladies event, Importance of role models
1:04:05 Kelly Minkin re-registration issue
1:18:10 Legends passing away, Aging
1:26:13 Outro

Poker pro Bart Hanson joins Doug Polk to talk about the wild Texas poker scene, the 2021 WSOP, and betting huge on the 2020 elections.

0:00 Intro
1:04 Bart joins, The housing market
8:46 Moving out of California, pros and cons
16:40 Poker in Texas
21:54 Should Doug start a poker room
29:41 San Antonio, Does Bart still play?
33:56 Banning the Europeans?!, Game protection
43:23 WSOP 2021, Mark-up Police
49:44 Difficulty of playing live MTT's for a living
54:46 WSOP's problems with Covid
1:05:33 Bart's WSOP stories
1:10:23 Making content on YouTube
1:24:51 Mike Postle, The exhausting amount of scams
1:41:00 Bart's election bets
1:48:10 Outro

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Former poker pro and early cryptocurrency adopter Bryan Pellegrino (aka PrimordialAA) joins Doug Polk to talk about NFTs, artificial intelligence in poker, and his new project Layer Zero. The first 1 hour and 2 minutes is all about crypto, the last 39 minutes is poker related stuff.

0:00 Intro
0:44 Bryan joins
2:20 Layer Zero
17:42 Oracles, Chainlink
26:55 When will Layer Zero launch
31:55 NFT's
41:20 Investing in to the crypto market today
47:46 Avalance, Polygon
55:24 ETH Gas price, Solana
1:02:09 The Doug vs DNegs challenge
1:08:08 Bryans poker career
1:14:15 AI in poker
1:24:00 Should online players be afraid of AI?
1:37:31 Bryans future schedule (WSOP?)

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Live cash game specialist Garrett Adelstein joins Doug Polk to talk about the state of live poker, balancing life with poker, folding the second nut straight, and more. 

0:00 Intro
0:46 Garrett joins, Marriage/relationships, Survivor
12:30 Balancing life and poker
23:52 Mental health 
29:20 Current state of live poker
34:14 Online vs live, Cash game streams
45:40 GTO vs Exploit
55:45 The identical T7 folds
1:01:11 Playing aggressive, Solvers, Working hard
1:17:00 Mark-up, Scammers
1:35:47 Getting owned, dealing with swings
1:42:05 The LULs
1:49:07 Garrett's future plans
1:51:51 Outro

Chess streamer Alexandra Botez joins Doug Polk to talk about chess, poker, and which game has smarter players.

0:51 Alexandra joins
1:43 Living in Austin, Making content
13:54 The Chess Hustlers, Did AI ruin Chess?
21:07 How to start studying Chess or Poker
25:21 Poker players vs Chess players, Tells vs strategy
35:20 The Chess Twitch boom, Would Chess benefit from a luck factor?
42:00 The World Chess Championship, catering to newbs
51:17 Alexandra's thoughts on Poker, being competitive
1:02:00 Mike McDonald, NFT's, Regulation on cryptos/investments
1:26:31 Which cryptos Alexandra and Doug like?
1:37:38 Advice to young people, College
1:46:30 Will Alexandra play more poker in the future?

World Series of Poker Staple Norman Chad joins Doug Polk to discuss the (potentially) upcoming series and more. 

0:42 Norman joins
2:00 The ex-wife jokes, dealers, poker in California
8:45 WSOP 2021
18:42 Is PokerGo good for the industry?
25:45 WSOP on CBS Sports, Norman+Lon, Jamie Kerstetter
36:42 Who could replace Norman and Lon?
43:10 Making mistakes, glorifying HendonMob stats, rake
49:44 Why is NL Hold'em THE game?, WPT, Mike Sexton
57:02 The WSOP Main Event, what tournaments will Norman play (Doug buys a piece)
1:05:25 Phil Hellmuth, old school pros vs new pros
1:11:25 Women in poker
1:20:02 Gambling Mad with Norman Chad
1:24:58 Doug vs DNegs challenge, broadcasting
1:29:28 How to succeed in broadcasting/content creation
1:45:34 Parting words, will Doug play any events?
1:49:00 Outro