WPH #525: Doug Polk NEEDLES Tom Dwan!!!!!!!

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Poker players all around the world used to watch Tom Dwan battle it out online at the nosebleed stakes back in the Full Tilt Poker era. Now, on the Hustler Casino Live stream, Dwan is playing against the former No. 1 heads-up player on the planet, Doug Polk. Dwan finds himself on the river with a bluff catcher, facing a great bet size from Polk. Will Polk’s speech play help him get his bluff through?
When you are playing against strong players who will often follow Game Theory Optimal (GTO) strategies, it is important to remember that these players will be able to find bluffs in almost all situations. When you have a hand that blocks some of their medium-strength value hands or beats their bluffs you should call more often than you would against someone you perceive to be a recreational player.
Tom Dwan also known as durrrr from his online days is a 36 year old American professional poker player. He is a favorite poker player for many around the world as they would watch him battle in the highest stakes cash games on Full Tilt Poker before poker’s Black Friday hit & he is known for his fearless style and crazy bluffs. He was a regular on Poker After Dark and High Stakes Poker. Today, Tom is mostly known to play in high stakes private games in Asia. He is also often seen on the Triton poker tour playing in the largest buy-in poker tournaments in the world. He currently has over $6,800,000 in live tournament earnings which puts him in the top 250 on the all time money list. Since 2008, Tom Dwan has played on over 210 live cash game streams and has won over $4,000,000. He is ranked in the top 2 biggest live cash game winners ever as reported by TrackingPoker. Doug Polk ‘WCGRider’ is the owner of The Lodge Card Room along with Brad Owen and Andrew Neeme. Doug has over $9,500,000 in live tournament earnings and 3 World Series Of Poker (WSOP) bracelets, including a win in the 2017 $100k Super High Roller for $1,600,000. Since 2014 he has played over 105 times on live streamed cash games and is winning over $180,000.
Hustler Casino Live is a full-scale, high-value poker production. Close to a million dollars was spent transforming the casino’s high-limit poker room, the Crystal Room, into the set of this new state-of-the-art live poker show. Hustler Casino Live looks more like coverage of a TV broadcast sporting event and appeals to those beyond the poker community. Unscripted and unedited, they host regular poker streams such as ‘Max Pain Monday’ and ‘Thirsty Thursday’. Some of the most notable poker players to have appeared on the show are Phil Ivey ‘The Tiger Woods of Poker’ ‘RaiseOnce’, Tom Dwan ’durrrr’, Phil Hellmuth ‘The Poker Brat’, Chris Moneymaker, Doug Polk ‘WCGRider, Garrett Adelstein ‘Gman’, Tony Guoga ‘Tony G’ and many more.
This was from the first day of the 2024 edition of the highly anticipated Million Dollar Game, which had a $1,000,000 minimum buy-in. The game was streamed for four evenings straight and featured an array of professionals and businessmen competing against one another. The players included: Doug Polk, Tom Dwan, Alan Keating, Santhosh Suvarna, Peter, Hook, Brandon Steven, Stanley, Rahul, Steve, Texas Mike, Rahul, and a mysterious guest called Thomas.
Preflop: Tom Dwan raises to $3,000 from the cutoff with JTo. Doug Polk 3-bets to $10,000 from the button with 87 of spades. After the small blind and big blind fold, Dwan decides to call and the two of them head to the flop.
Flop – As Tc 5d: Dwan flops second pair and a backdoor straight draw to Broadway. He checks, and Doug decides to check back after flopping only a backdoor straight draw and backdoor flush draw.
Turn – Ac: The board-pairing ace of clubs on the turn improves Dwan to two pair. He checks for the second time, and Doug fires out a delayed continuation bet of $17,000 with no pair and no draw. Dwan calls with the best hand as they head to the river.
River – 5s: Another 5 on the river double pairs the board. Dwan checks with his pair of tens. Doug is now playing the board with aces and fives and a ten kicker and can only win by betting. Will the former number 1 heads-up player in the world attempt to bluff Durrrr out of this pot, or will he check back and give up? Stay tuned to the end of 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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