Doug Polk Podcast

FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver joins Doug Polk to talk about poker, politics, COVID, Twitter beefs and more. 0:52 Nate joins 2:55 Political betting, FiveThirtyEight vs sports betting markets 11:00 2020 Primaries, Superdelegates 16:29 Polarization of the US population 22:30 WSOP Covid restrictions 34:28 Nonsensical Covid policies 41:42 Nate's upcoming book on gambling/risk 46:22 Nate&apos...

Mike "The Mouth" Matusow joins Doug Polk to share his thoughts on modern poker strategy, the 2021 WSOP, scammer stories from the early 2000s and more.  Timestamps:  0:45 Mike joins  6:28 What is Mike playing nowadays  10:31 Matusows thoughts on GTO/solvers  20:50 What happened with UltimateBet?  27:01 WSOP 2021, Covid/Vaccination  38:06 Should the WSOP be cancelled?  55:44 Reminiscing ea...

The one and only Phil Hellmuth joins Doug Polk to talk about his run of heads-up wins and more. 1 :08 Hellmuth joins  3:25 Phil's Heads Up Duel win streak  13:28 Hellmuth's success in big field MTT's vs High Rollers  20:40 White Magic vs GTO  29:50 Hand histories from the DNegs match  44:48 Upcoming match vs Tom Dwan  47:15 Is Phil reasonable?  58:12 Doug's amazing fold vs Phil...

Ethereum developer Mudit Gupta joins Doug Polk to talk about what really went down with the biggest DeFi hack in the history of cryptocurrency.  0:38 Mudit joins  1:54 Rundown of the hack  8:09 Did this hack use a new strategy?  14:25 Are DeFi projects really decentralized?  21:11 Bridges/Multi-blockchain  28:52 Should we be concerned about the hack?  33:35 Did the hacker dox himself?  41:14 Hacke...

Former poker pro and current rich guy Mike "Timex" McDonald joins Doug Polk to discuss topics that would probably make no sense to your grandma.  DeFi, NFTs, cryptopunks, oh my! 0:31 Intro  2:22 Mike joins  4:53 Crypto market today and in the future  15:17 Equity vs Tokens, FTT/FTX, Uniswap  30:28 NFT's, CryptoPunks  51:18 What CryptoPunks could perform well in the future?  58:25 Co...

If you like hearing about Bitcoin, you're gonna like this one. Doug Polk is joined by the CEO of Riot Blockchain and former high stakes poker pro Jason Les. The duo takes a deep dive into a number of Bitcoin-related topics, including environmental concerns, mining, the recent China ban and more.  TIMESTAMPS:  0:33 Intro  5:56 Upcoming podcast schedule  8:00 Jason Les joins  9:20 Bitcoin/marke...

The elusive Daniel Negreanu joins Doug to talk about playing heads-up versus Phil Hellmuth, his recent victories in the PokerGO Open, and his pick for best tournament player in the world. Plus, Doug reveals a timing tell he had on Daniel. Sign up for the Upswing Lab to access Doug's new module when it comes out: https://upswingpoker.com/the-poker-lab-coaching/ Timestamps: 0:00 Intro  1:15 Ups...

What is the current state of cheating in poker? Are things like preflop charts and HUDs considered cheating - and if not, should they be?  Doug Polk sits down with poker pro Olivier Busquet to flesh out a heated discussion that started on the wonderful website Twitter dot com.  Timestamps:  0:00 - Intro  5:52 - Olivier Joins, discusses preflop chart opinions  9:38 - History of preflop charts  13:2...

Young poker pro Landon Tice agreed to pay businessman Bill Perkins $3,600 for every 100 hands the two played in a $200/$400 heads-up challenge. The match was meant to last 20,000 hands, but Landon threw in the towel less than 25% of the way to the finish line. Doug Polk is joined by Jason Mo, Kevin Rabichow and Bill Perkins to parse out the not-so-epic conclusion to the match.   Timestamps:  0:00...

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