DEVASTATION At The World Series Of Poker 

Doug going into huge detail on opponent's river calling range. Opponent's actual thought process: "FU I call."

you played it well, except, you needed to say "you call and its all over baby!" after shoving river.

Do you need us to crowd source you a decent mic for on the road?

That Asian guys shimmy at the end was pretty strong

"Anyway after that I lost. See you again next time" 😂😂

Doug forgot one thing when it come to poker in general. It’s hard to make a pair.

Only Doug can turn a 2 minute hand into a 20 minute video

I don’t wanna sound like Charlie Carrell 😂 & I am also a $25NL fish, but when you raised the turn your body language was exuding confidence, almost like you are trying to look strong when you are weak, im sure your balanced but just a thought 💭

Why not reach out to Khun himself to find out what he was thinking on the Turn and River? I think and I believe others would think his thoughts would be very interesting at those points and ultimately the driving decision to his calls. I mean you have access to the actual information and why not get it?

Never go broke in a limped pot

Good times Doug. It's great you got some of your own live, heads up finals content to cover. Life is good

"Well, you start chasin' it... And every time you get your hands around it, you fall further backwards." - Tony Soprano

Doug - Much respect. I have learned a ton from your analysis and enjoy your watching /hearing you insights! - But this time you mention that "Game Flow" from previous hands influence the play in this 'critical' hand... and did not mention that you had made a big deal about one of your previous bluffs getting thru. When you told your opponent that you got the bluff thru, I said "Wow, that guy will call the next time its a tough call, as he KNOWs that Doug has bluffed him..." and noone likes to get bluffed. My sense was he knew you were domminating him, and would rather go out calling a bluff, than being driven off a hand. In this case, I think most people saw you dominating the match, and if you had not told him thatyou had bluffed (in what seems a very believeable way), he may have been less likely to call, when it was a close call (like with 3rd pair). - 2nd place is an amazing accomplishment, (but 1st is more fun)! Great play and thanx for the videos!

I think its admirable that you Polk fun at yourself.

It was great to get to watch. Thanks Doug for all the awesome content recently!

It is possible this was a tactic by Kuhn, make yourself look a bit too cautious by folding a few hands on smaller pots this encourage the bluffing. Then make the call on a bigger hand. This is still risky strategy but maybe he thought he had a bit of a read.

Doug: Why my bad play was actually good!

Doug’s got the best attitude in general. Kudos Doug

Where's the part about the cocktail waitress flipping a coin to decide you're all in?

Bro hero called tf out that hand 😂

I feel like most videos of doug I watch involve big river bluffs by him which makes me believe he bluffs way too often

This is the age old good bluff but gets picked off… if you’re calling 86 here then you’re calling way too wide imo. Also if you know your opponent is bluffing and you’re calling w the 86 why are you tanking first? Feels like clicking buttons tbh.

I think he was just so flustered at that point he wasn’t even thinking clearly. He just said f it. If I’m right, good, if not, this is still my biggest cash ever and I lost to arguably the best heads up player ever. His actions leading up to this were telling. He put in wrong chips, he laid down some big hands that would have won the pot. The fact that it was 8/6 which had become a major hand between the two of them also played a role. But he was visibly and clearly flustered to the point where I believe he just made a decision he may not have made under normal conditions.

I love how in poker you can not want card X in your hand on the turn so that you unblock your opponent semi-bluffing with an X, and then on the river you can want an X in your hand so that you block your opponent from having hit the draw. Seeing him flip over an 8 and a small club really would make me sad that I was now losing to someone who clearly wasn't playing optimally. But, to be fair, he seemed to count his chips and realise he's winning this hand or losing the match - which was probably spot on.

Q4, J4. T4, 84 are played this way by Doug, that's 64 combos, too bluffy imho. Maybe some randomization reduces the bluffs but I have a feeling Doug open ended + Doug haz no pair/Ace = Doug goes all in except Feb 29th between 7:32pm and 8:06pm.

Good run for 2nd; congrats! Thanks for your thoughts on this particular hand..."and then I lost."😂

I feel like this is just a classic example of a player beginning to think he has been bluffed to much and decides to make a stand! He chose the right moment so possibly he had a sort of read, or it could’ve been a bit lucky! All the same it’s going to happen to aggressive players

Tournament, heads-up, and short-stacked is weird compared with cash full-ring. That's the pre-flop explanation. And I love the analysis of "what happens if he jams?" because against short-stack, you lose all bluffs and all semi-bluffs, and thin value hands.

When you’re known as the best heads up player.. That’s gotta hurt…especially losing to an unknown player

‘After that I lost’ 😆👍

The Negreanu bluff, the Dwan bluff, now this.. Damn Dougs a savage lmaoo

‘You wouldn’t wanna have a low club’ The 6c just chilling

You would find hands that play out like this at the micro stakes, pretty funny to see it here too.

If you're not first, you're last. I've heard from LeBron haters for a decade that losing before the Finals is better than making it all the way there and finishing 2nd to better teams/dynasties. You should've just lost on the first day of the tournament and cut your losses, would've been better for your legacy than coming all the way just to finish 2nd. I didn't make the rules, I'm just abiding by them.

It was the flop min bet call that lost you the hand. The only hand that would make sense for Doug is 89 or K4 or AIR.

Is it just me or is heads up like 80% luck?

I prefer the TJ Cloutier method. When you miss the flop it’s time to stop.

Fantastic explanation of not only working out what to do with your own hand, what your opponent has, but also working out what your opponent thinks you have. I have to agree with the final conclusion that the most likely hand Doug would have would be a missed flush or straight draw, or both. In which case, it's a nailed on call. Would I have jammed on the river? Mostly because of the fact that Khun called the 900k turn, I think I'd have saved what I had and checked then been forced to fold to any bet on the river. Maybe that's because I'm a bit chicken when it comes to taking a 30/70 chance of winning the pot... but then I don't have the skill and knowledge that Doug has. Fascinating to watch and learn though. The turn call, to me was the giveaway. If Khun was on a draw of some kind, he'd probably have folded there. So, for me, I'd have bailed out on the river.

The ten seconds starting at 11:24 had me cracking up. Really appreciate Doug's willingness to turn million-dollar bogies into a joke.

And once he calls the turn it's gonna be hard to get him to fold

What do you do on the river if you hit a Q?

"DO YOU SEE IT GUYS? IF YOU SEE IT GUYS DONT SAY ANYTHING" ;)

Except everyone knows you love to check raise the turn with straight draws to shove the river doug. Other than counterfeit two pair shoves it’s like your MO!

16:16 "you [Khun] do not have a club in your hand, you wouldn't wanna have a low club" but the graphic shows Khun holding the 6 of clubs, that means from Khun's perspective he blocks 6x of clubs which would be pair+flush draw on the turn. Unsure if those are hands you xraise turn or take this line with but wanted to point it out nonetheless.

The guy folded top pair to one bet in a single raised pot. There’s no elaborate thought process here. He just decided he was done folding and clicked call, and happened to be right. Really all there is to it. If Doug had 42 74 K3 K5 K6 96 78 etc. or a slowplayed flop set, nobody would be making all of these crazy comments about Doug having tells or whatever. They’d be like wow what a bad call w 86! Good win! But people are naturally extremely results oriented. It is what it is.

A few of the later epochs analysis by Doug, I've thought "but what are you repping" coming in late in the analyysis. It's just about other side being weak, people ❤ to stand up to that.

4-D Poker: You played your hand like your Q was a K, and he played his like the 8 was a 9

Whats up guys its helicopter polk here😂

You forgot to scream 'foooooold'. Beginner mistake Doug.

Thx for the breakdown, your line is more understandable now. However, your general perception is leaning towards the loose-aggressive side, capable of making big 3-street bluffs, thus making it more likely you'll get called down more often than not, so this decision may have been rushed a little bit. But congrats on the tourney anyways, it's still a nice score!

Head to head is a totally different game end of tournament strat.

Is Khun a pro? He looks more like a business man type

Bro Kuhn read you like a book. His live read trumped your GTO

HONEY HE CALLED ME WITH 86o

"Anyway, after that I lost" 😆

Does the guy who won have a heads up course, because thats who I want to learn from!

Looks like he just felt like you’re full off bs, should be nice to push river with any thin value than

Doug you are so good at explaining these spots, a lot of it I get conceptually but just can't put in to practise, but hey that's a new problem. Anyway that didn't laugh at the end, seriously that was quality "and then I lost". Keep up the good work, much love from Australia

As much as you look up to the right, your wife must be standing there telling you that you are late for dinner and in a lot of trouble.......lol

Can you type Headings with Doug Polk: Devastation at the World Series of Poker so i dont have to click the link. I just want to watch without any commentary.

I don't know much gto, but if he made two big folds before this , jjst dont bluff your whole stack. He is more inclined to hero call because he thinks he is getting bullied, and there are tons of spots where bluffing doesnt require your whole stack and you can find those spots instead. Overall, when you are 2:1 chips and *presumably* better player - dont bluff your stack out thats the only way you loose

Doug I think your analysis is always great. However I do think you failed to account for one thing in your commentary on the river. Some of youd hands that were semi bluffs that check raised on the turn now have showdown value on the river. So Khun is thinking you would now check back with any 9X holdings as it is second pair. Also, although you personally wouldn’t check raise the turn with a hand that has a lot of equity but would still hate to face a shove, he does not know that about you. Most players DO check raise with combo draws on the turn with a disregard for the fact they might get jammed on and hate that spot. So Khun is thinking you do have a lot of missed straight draws that have turned a flush draw and have completely missed river. He does not know that you would just call the turn with a straight draw flush draw as most opponents (wrongly in your view) check raise the turn with those types of holdings.

"I can't tell you for sure whether this is wrong or bad, or anything, maybe it's totally fine, I'm not sure.." I think this all the time about my play. 😏

I just don't like having the 4 on the river once he calls the turn. We block some hands that we fold out. I think we should have some give ups here as played. We don't always have to barrel when we check raise the turn. Also, the way Doug snap shoved the river when an obvious straight draw gets there is kind of fishy. If he just check folds theyll still be more hands to come with roughly the same stack. Just a brutal ICM punt imho.

I think you can chalk this one up to a timing tell. All-inning too fast even if he's on no time banks is the only thing that even gives him the idea to call

Khuh just seems like he has no idea what to do the whole hand and said f it idk what I’m doing here

I love watching poker, but i steer clear of the long-winded Doug ones.

I don't think he correctly deduced anything. I said this when it happened. He was under way too much time pressure and he called when he should not have. Just because he was right does not mean it was a good call.

The problem here is you're against an opponent here that just gets owned and is sick and tired of it haha.

Damn so close to saying you're a HU world champ.

hey doug can you get a retired vet a dealer job at the lodge lol love the content btw

Idk whats more savage punting off 7 mil or calling with a pair of 6's

imagine slowing the speed down of these hand pauses 😅 I cant imagine but if someone is must be hard to think od

It's really hard to criticize this hand. The only idea I had was to tank-shove river. This is anything but a punt.

Doug are you saying you didn’t make a mistake and if you played it again it would turn out the same way? Bluffing most of your chips with Q high and over cards on the board seems high risk in a tourney final…imo. the bet sizings looked all wrong to sell the bluff too. I think you got a little overconfident and maybe in a hurry to win and he read your bluff like a book.

It was an ambitious call by Kuhn on the river. However, Doug's analysis is even more ambitious, because it is hard to believe that every player considers every conceivable combos, blockers, and every variations from preflop, to flop, to turn, and to river at every hand, before reaching a decision...!!!..If they are able and willing to do it every hand, they may end up in hospital before the tournament is over..!!!

Thanks. ✌🏻👊🏼

At least he spoke on it… also that ad to get a bit more unstuck lol.

Dude the title of this video is giving anyone who follows you a mini heart attack ..watching the video, he got sick of folding to you lol just guessing. Halfway through.

He knows you’re probably check raising any club draw on the turn so he said fuck it and called you down.

Dude, how is it that every time you "Randomise" you end up reraiseng huge amounts. Didn't you have a video explaining that GTO is having bluffs only part of the times. Beyond all the words, Its a personality

"Hey doug" that is what i told you yesterday as i was walkin with my kid through bellagio... could see some frustration and concentration in you as you walked by. Was takin my daughter by the poker room so i could show her where her dad basically lived for years in the early 2000's. Will assume by this video title that's why you werent so happy as you walked by. Hope you feel better bro.

After that I lost,hahaha.

Bro u might as well use your laptop Mic… not sure if it’s just too much gain but 🤷🏼

Doug Doug Doug . .just wait till you got him bro .. why ya gota be like that

Anyway, after that, I lost! How many times have I said that.

I'm a player from Brazil and I also make poker videos, I'm very inspired by Doug

I have a question on calling river jam. >Doug shouldn’t JAM w missed clubs >Kuhn having the 6c is bad because it blocked missed clubs Which one is it?! If Doug isn’t supposed to jam missed clubs, the 6c is actually good for Kuhn… right?

Even though you took and L still GREAT break down. GL next time!

Doug trying to justify another horrible bluff. Im starting to notice a trend here

This is a clasic problem, when you play good bluffing candidate vs your actual loose image, where your bluffs doesnt have same fold equity vs non gto players. I feel like i could save lot of money if i was able to shut down great bluffing hands depends on image.

I can’t believe he had the balls to make that call. Amazing. Makes for entertaining poker to watch.

You should try the new course “DownSwing Poker Training”

Opponent bets turn like he is capped. And he IS capped indeed. You raise with your bluff - he must fold. He DIDN'T fold. You bluff river - he is still capped, he still should fold. He DIDN'T fold. FFFFUCK.

Can someone please explain what hand(s) Doug is represent on every street?

"I have to give credit"......,yeah Doug he beat you.

haha, "I could have so many big hands..." but you don't

turn raise is likely unbalanced. Do you find the 6x raises here? BB has few KX too and he blocks 6x raises on turn

Doug was too loosey goosy eating a sandwhich it seems.

You’d rather have 56? Wow what analysis