I saw the hand Nr. 2 live. Isildur insta check raised the turn, Ivey snap-called. Isil insta pots the river and Ivey snap-called. So it literally took 5 seconds for the pot to go from 50k to over a mill :D
One thing I didn't hear you talk about in discussion of their preflop strategy is the context of the game. A lot of these matches were always open - 3 bet, so a raise not really being a raise until the 4th bet. Obviously not all of them played that way but a lot of them did. Small point but, I just thought about it when you went over the first hand and questioned him 3 betting a single suited gapper.
Doug Great video please consider: Isildur top 5 NL pots Isildur VS Durrr top 5 pots Patrick Vs Durrr top 5 pots You vs Sauce top 5 pots TV Cash Games top 5 pots You're 5th-10th highest pots Nice One....
Doug Polk Poker You should have atleast 10 mill subscribers,but it will Come with all your vids,which I have to thumbs up every video since Im beginning to watch vids ive already seen,since you got so many.Thats something I gotta respect.since none are bad or boring.stay cool Doug ...Hope your biggest win Comes soon.so these pots will be like yours
Hey Doug, I was wondering about Patrik's turn bet size in the first hand. He pot bets his overpair and nut flush draw and your concensus is that it is ok, but you wouldn't like it if Isildur check/jammed on you. This sounds logical. However, in Holdem you often talk about balancing your range. I think that if Patrik would have a flopped set (most likely 22xx or 44xx), he would often use the pot betsizing on the turn to charge hands like KKxx with a flushdraw or some combodraws and to deny him from realising his (probably substantial) equity cheaply. In order to have a balanced range he has to add some other non set holdings to the mix, to let Isildur1 make mistakes with the hands like he had this hand. Isn't ATT3cc the perfect hand to add to this range, together with maybe some combidraws? I agree that an Isildur shove will suck, but you also have to aknowledge that there are very few holdings Isildur is able to shove here. Isildur was playing so agressive this session that you have to assume that he would threebet most of his premium holdings on the flop, so he has no sets and strong two pair combo's in his range. This means his flop call either meant that he was drawing himself to a straight/flush or had the kind of rundown with top pair/straight draw combination he had now. The 7 only helps a few rundowns in his range which now hit two pair, but most of his range misses and maybe picks up some more equity. Conclusion: I don't think Patrik had a choice in betsizing and probably has to bet pot on the turn, because of balancing, protecting possibly the best hand, and possibly setting himself up for a pot-river shove.
Some guy in the chat commenting on the biggest pot said this: Ship a Yacht. Which is hilarous and quite true. Fucking OnePointFourMillion dollars. This shit was the crazy. Too bad Doug had to settle with shipping a Lambo
Hi, you said at the end of vid you will ever see hands as big as these. How come you think that? I would of thought they will just keep growing due to more and more cash on these sites? great vid tho ty :)
great analysis! Could you talk one day about ZOOM cash? Like one video of the main differences with regular cash games. Or one stream so then you can do a summary video. Thank you from Spain!
I believe we will have pots like this again, if not bigger. When online poker is legalised in the US, it will be like a tsunami of action. I can't wait.
PLO for me is the best poker game, although many people avoid it, and that's because: 1) You can win more money for less time in average which leaves you more time off computer (compared to NLTH or other forms of poker) 2) Rakeback on the same level as NL is much higher because pots are bigger 3) A good player doesn't have to think that much playing PLO compared to NL, its easier game, so you can stay focused much longer. Plus, 4) if you can't afford or just don't like(like me) using HUD, in PLO it just doesn't matter that much even when you are multitabling higher number of tables. It really is "the great game" of PLO !
quoted from your site "Doug has played games his whole life. His parents always taught him to think and decide for himself. Dedicated to success, so I would picks something and focuses his energy to make it happen." you're welcome
Few questions about the biggest pot. Firstly, Isildur1 starts with ~$678,000 so how does the pot get to ~$1,448,000 that confuses me. Also, when the money goes in Isildur is all in but his stack resets to ~$181,000, what's with that? The way I see it they start with ~$1,936,000 on the table and end with ~$1,846,000, something is weird with this, Isildur should have $0 chips as Patrik has him covered and Patrik should have ~$1,936,000 minus rake?
btw who was the biggest crusher in those 6-7 figure pot size days? Antonius since he won like 15mil on-line or did he just fed of isildur and some other crazy guys?
Antonius, Ivey, Dwan, The Dang Brothers, Phil Galfond. All of them made a shitload of Guy Laliberte, he lost like almost $30 million across 5 screen names.
Swaghetti Yolonese I was looking for an explanation on the last hand (biggest pot) . Your comment helped explain why Antonius and not Isildur won. Thanks
Lol what was he doing on hand #2? If I decide to pot the turn and get raised I would flat then jam if the board pairs or the flush comes in, in addition to the wrap coming in. Not re jam lmao
Why won't pots like this happen again ( you mentioned that at the end of your video ). I just got into poker a few months ago therefore I don't really know the history of online poker.
Doug Polk Poker also they were backed by full tilt handing out millions to play so of course it was easy back then to play high stakes. Nowadays these guys aren't even around because they can't afford it. Way better players out there who play with their own money!
Finally caught Doug making a mistake on a hand analysis. On first pot he says Patrik has gutter to the nuts on the flop. I know I know... Negates everything else Doug has ever done for the game.
Don't think that is the case here in these games, because all of the hands make somewhat sent to 3b/4b. I do remember Isildur playing in mandatory 3b games though.
at 12:00 you mention patrik is lucky to not run into a set, but given its HU and he has top 2, doesn't patrik know that it is way less likely that isildur has a set? therefore getting it good
Except... people don't get their money back from Ponzi schemes. The owners were definitely stealing from the players, but everyone was made whole eventually. The Americans had to wait a while, but (apart from the people who sold off their bankrolls for cents on the dollar) nobody ended up losing money.
It’s a fold on the flop for Isildur 100% of the time when he gets 3 bet. Crazy how bad some of these guys were back in the day. Meanwhile, he wins an 800k pot. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️. Same deal in 2nd hand. Such an action turn card on the 2nd hand. Brutal river. Can’t imagine running as good as he did and end up broke, but I’m also not a lunatic and never would have had a chance to get there in most of these hands.
OCD brother it's a bitch...and you got it. Which is probably the best thing a poker player can be. First of all I learned to play poker from a Jewish financier casino manager who liked to hear people scream as the bone broke it gave him an errection. The only reason I could even get close to this guy was he had one leg and I had a wheelchair van. He gave me three pieces of advise that stick over the years. This guy was on the kill crew in the Vegas movie. He sat next to me in the theater whispering their real names during the premier ! Number one in his dirtiest growl he repeated many times ....just play yer fuckin cards. That's it and instead of going crazy wait a while a better ones coming you don't have to win every pot. If ya did they would start an investigation ! So number two was ...most of the time people ain't got shit. For years I play hold em solitaire and see all cards and lay the board ...then I figure who would have thrown out and who won down the line. And most of the time people don't ! The third thing I came to grips with was ...whatever you have on the flop is all yer gunna git ....most of the time you KNOW theres no improvement ...I don't know but you have five cards so youve delivered three as opposed to the last two that alone is the foundational percentage. Then theres a hundred things everyone us considering. Now what would be interesting is have the top 8 players in sound proof booths and tell them to verbalize and laugh their ass off or whatever happens during the game . The way I play online is totally different . I couldn't snooker Dwan 2-3 times without falling on the ground pounding the floor . Danny Negraneau actually visited one of the apps and I was on a lucky streak and dumped six figures chasing me as I was just pounding it . Went from like 300,000 to $88M ...He saw i was on a runaway running streak and ducked out. It's not cash but I guess he cruises . Computer app free poker can really help you be a lot braver as you can buy $100B in chips or work your way up through the grind. I've played all the apps and pretty much 95% of the time I am chip leader within 5-15 minutes and I specialize in new opponents. 70k people on line I play more hands a month than table dudes in a lifetime in just a month or two. I think that's Doyle Brandon's big secret. Is most people just have nothing ....its why every smart guy throws in. Till some idiot wins the $7M jackpot with 2-7 ...it's cuz we feel it. And it happens. we count all the odds do our homework and pass around our parents hard earned money.
Zegner no man -- not a straight. of the four cards you are dealt, you only can play two of them. so he had 45 from the board and 67, as again, he can only play two cards from his hand. i would not have bet kk like that, he's blocking his own straight by having a 3 and isildur could have very easily had two pair, i guess patrick does have a pretty monster hand, i try playing a hand like patrick does and i get busted every time. got A-high flush today and someone rivered a straight flush. good times .. and folded 10 J hearts in a different hand before the flop, then end up getting Royal Flush. #^^_=#$^&_$'c!!!!!!! lol
Played plo recently, 1-2.. what a crazy game.. next time i play, definitely gonna be in the morning and not at 4am after long night of texas and drinking ect., i did break even but.. could have easily given it all away.. this is just outrageous.. a million in one pot.. a million dollars.. thats some james bond sh*t lol
Imbicil is definitely 1 way too agressive and lucky dude! Glad see Antonius rake instead sucked out. Would been great to see Doug stacking Isdr instead of commentating. Nice upload.