I want someone to look at me as Dwan looks at Antonius

I love the way Tom always looks kinda shady/nervous even when he is destroying his opponents lol! Thanks for these vids, awesome stuff :)

I like how respectful Dwan is whenever he wins a big pot, especially in cooler situations. I don't think I've ever even seen him celebrate one. He was the absolute classiest guy on the table in televised poker. I repeat - on the table, in case I get replies to this re: jungleman etc.

Doug if you had been watching this entire session you'd see durr when raising or 3betting pots preflop was checking when he missed flops and he was missing alot of flops so I think his idea was to check to induce a bet from antonious. It made it look like durr was just trying to steal the pot from the straddle with a variety of hands, also gives balance to durr who may be checking JJ AK OOp on this board vs Antonious's 3bet calling range against Durr. It also balances his range by checking overpairs on this board and Im sure he doesn't do this enough against Antonious (they likely have ALOT of history) and so he checks so as to not play his hand as face up especially because he was checking alot of flops after being the agressor preflop. So it's hard to critique this aspect of his play given we don't know the entirety of his history against Antonius and given the overall dynamic if durr checking alot of flops in this live session. Most of the time he was checking & check calling because he had been missing alot of boards so he wants to balance that by checking his overpairs in this scenario. Antonious is not calling his 3bet with a standard 3bet calling range 6 handed, they have too much dynamic with each other. So we can't even assume that QQ JJ TT are the main hands in Antonious's 3bet calling range especially in position against Tom Dwan. But the check on the flop is brilliant it allows antonious to be bettimg with a bigger range of his 3bet calling range in position which consists of alot of suited connectors, Suited aces, and underpairs to the board.

Can we see a Poker Hands where Antonius raises from the button and takes down the blinds? I'm starting to feel bad for the poor guy.

Has Antonius ever won a hand on High Stakes Poker? Unlucky bastard

dude Antonius is always getting coolered or sucked out on.

of course Dwan has top set on the set over set. If Antonious was the one with a set of kings, Dwan would have had AJ.

You should analyze the hand between Antonius and Laak where Antonius calls with pair of fours in the river.

I once saw an Aussie Millions hand. Two chinese guys and an almost 1 million dollar pot. The one who lost was actually laughing and seemed to be enjoying himself when he pushed his chips over. The other one was eating noodles with chopsticks. Priceless!

Feel better Doug, good stuff as usual!

Love these videos and to hear your thoughts on specific actions. Notably, I don't think you've said anything about the decision to straddle, which has been a key element in a couple of these monster hands you've presented. It would be illuminating to hear your specific thoughts on straddling, especially as it relates to specific players, situations, and dynamics.

shoutout to Tom Dwan for holding there, and for managing to have kings

keep the vids up doug...good stuff man.

PA's Inner Monolgue: "Kangs!!! How you have Kangs!?"

yop. great work , thx. links to hands you re talking about would be great.

I think I saw this episode a while ago and after Antonius left, Dwan actually had put him on a flopped set of 10s if I recall

If a person who is new to poker only watched this youtube series for the past two months, they would think that Antonius was the biggest loser in history.

I'm so impressed to see this pot so important . I can't believe it

Polker hands my favorite show!! ;)

50% less talking and 50% more action, and I’d watch these every day.

12:05 wow that was fast

fast forward to the game. haha

Epic video once again. So, About Tom's line on the flop. Obv your arguments make sense btw. Could he maybe be pot controlling or checking to induce thinking he had the best hand? And the check-raise jam on the turn I mean he loses to AJ and J9s like you said but thats about it right? I guess he put Antonious on a set or KQ and discounted AK, since he has 2 and one on the flop and maybe felt he had value there since he called pre and fired flop and turn...well Im sure he has his on way of thinking poker.

I heard Tom has been kidnapped by the Triads. Seriously, thanks for the hand break down, Doug.

Have you ever considered naming this series "Polker hands"? get it?

Another great vid, thanks!

Man I love doug, no homo but videos have been really good these past few weeks

I can't really call this a trap. Dwan check called the flop believing he was way ahead. He was just fortunate to hit his two outer on the turn thus creating a cooler of a hand. I mean, Antonious could maybe get away from it, but his turn bet pretty much committed him to the pot. Obviously a set is the only hand he doesn't want Dwan to have as that means 1 out.

Hey Doug. Thanks for review. Not that it's too important but I think QQ is also can be in Dwan's range. You didn't mention that one.

Great videos... Ever thought about putting captions on them? This poker jargong confuses me.. :D

I think dwan can have Qs (i expect that more likely than Ks). Checking the flop protects your range, but it also makes sence because you crush the board so heavily

Tom Dwan has one of the best images in poker imo. No one ever believes the guy so they pay him pre flop ALWAYS. and he so good post flop they can never tell when he's bluffing or holding the nuts. i hate to be a fan boy but i love watching that guy play. Ever since Helmuth got beat and told him "We'll see where you are in 5 years bud" LOL .. been about 10 years and still taking money from you Phil. haha

How do you fit "set over set" and trap into same sentence? :D

What do you think of durr's turn line? If both players have bunch of straights in there range then what worse hands are calling him? TT and may be some QQ that didn't 4bet pre. Probably a thin shove.

Hey Doug, dd you mean JJ would be a good hand to check-call planning on check-raise on a K turn or JJ would be a good hand to check-call and on the turn it would become a good spot to check-raise with this hand?

The check on the flop was masterful! Drrr has such a wide range of starting hands that when he has a real hand he wants action. If Patrick shoves on a post flop bet, Drrr is in a tough position because what could Patrick have other than a set. Once again analysis of hands is so easy when you know the outcome, your specialty in these videos, and saying you like this or that play is ridiculous because in the moment you wouldn’t do anything that you said. Guess that’s why you “retired”, your to good lol. Lot of Hellmuth in you Doug!

I didnt know vanessa selbst did walk throughs

I'm fairly new to Poker - can someone please explain why they revealed two cards on the river?

Is Dwan's turn c/r the correct line if it's so thin that even TT can consider folding and Antonius can have so many combos of straights?

why so many dislikes? doug polk is the man and this vid is great

strategising an arsey hand is inane. As is Doug "something-about -mary" Polk. Bizzare luck won this hand not a "trap"

I wonder if Durr had some sort of read on Antonius that he was strong on the flop.

what do you think of dwans sizing on the turn c/r ..isn't he sort of announcing he has AJ/the nuts ?

why is he talking we can see whats going on

Hey Doug, could you analyze the Holz(K8) vs Greenwood(88) hand @ EPT13 Barcelona SUPER HIGH ROLLER FINAL TABLE!!! Please ;)

Is 3bet sizing just smaller than it was 6yrs ago? or should you be 3betting 5x? i thought it was like 3x ish?

Always so sick ,set over set

Bro you’re talking too much

Why is Antonius not taking into concideration, that this hand is a Polker Hand? In Polker Hands often monsters are featured. Having said that, it is much more likely to put Tom on AJ or even a Full House. Clear fold...

Doug, the live read is invaluable

the best part about watching these events happen on poker after dark was not having to have some dork know it all commentating. ps cool vid~!

can you analyze a stu ungar hand?

Why did the dealer pull 2 river cards and the commentator said “Strike 1/2”?

Douglas, I watched your video with Papi about charity & I agree with you that most of them are mismanaged, I'm sure you've helped out a lot of people but one thing nobody can't take away from you is that $111,111 got donated to a great charity because you played the one drop even though you didn't have 100% of yourself its still awesome

Doug that check call is beautiful, I do that at times to ,sometimes you want to win a small pot or lose a small pot with an over pair ..not a wonderful flop for kings in that situation and trips and big draws that could re raise if you bet out on the flop .Dwan has the experience to know what the best thing to do was on that flop and he did it ,when you could only have two outs on the flop good to keep the pot small there ,perfect play from Dwan plain n simple

Gabe is such a beast.

Doug Polk makes no sense here, he doesn't take live reads into account, and we've seen him bash Tom Dwan for lesser things so, overall, not so surprised from his analysis. I thought Tom Dwan played this the best he could.

I guess Dwan could bluff with J10 and QJ as well after checking the flop, honestly I think it's hard not to assume that you have enough equity in the pot vs Dwan in Antonius spot. We need to find ~5-6 bluff combos in Dwans range, just put Dwan's standard 3 bet hand J4o in there and it's covered two fold!

Make a review of the hand durr plays against mentzer

탐트완이 쳐다보는거 왤케 귀엽노 ㅋㅋ

please DOUG don`t spoiler the hands in your title - TX mate

Lol. Gotta crack a smile when you make a Peat shorter joke.

I remember the FIRST time I saw this on TV ....... and when Dwan hit that turn King, the commentator said: this one's gonna get ugly ... before I did aloud. lol .... that's just disgusting 😂

I got trapped again by another Doug polk video..

next doug polk life goal: take a picture with mark hoppus

Is this a standard 3 bet size in lets say zone poker on ignition? I always thought a 3b raise should be 3x in this case + 3x + 3,300 for around 15k to 16k. Tell me why its standard to go bigger here

This channel has blown up!

If you not talking in this Video it had been great!

These spots are sick and it doesn't get easier when you run the numbers of your set against your opponent's expected range. As a non-live player who has never faced a straddle, thinking over preflop is an interesting situation. We have Antonius playing what we would expect to be an RFI CO range who then faces a reraise from HJ. We know Dwan (#SaveTom) is unpredictably wide, so we might not be inclined to be too worried. Given the strength of pocket 10s preflop, we're happy to call. Tom's View: ========== Once Antonius calls HJ's reraise, we can narrow his range. As we're in HJ with pocket kangs, we look forward to seeing a dry flop. We've played a lot of hands against Antonius and he knows we're loose, so we'll give him a range that includes the Upswing raise/fold hands. We'll remove AA & KK from his range, as we expect these hands to 4-bet. (I don't know PA's tendency to 4-bet QQ, so we'll just leave that and JJ in his 3-bet flatting range.) Against PA's expected calling range, Dwan sees himself as a huge favourite with 77% equity. Immediately upon seeing the flop, our equity against CO's range inches upward to nearly 80%. We're feeling trappy (I personally wouldn't), so we check. CO bets and this gives us a chance to evaluate what hands offer potential to either beat us or improve. CO's semi-bluffs include AKo, AKs, KJs and J9s. 44, TT, QQ and QTs all currently beat us. Time to call and play the turn. The Ks OTT against CO's expected flop-continuation range gives us ~79% equity and we're happy enough. That said, there is a risk that AJo, AJs and J9s all got there and these hands are all very much in CO's range. Despite the risk of those nutted hands trumping us, we've got loads of equity and we're happy to get our money in hoping to get unstuck. Patrik's View: =========== We open our TT happy enough to see Viffer on the BTN calling, but taking a moment to consider Dwan's 3-bet from HJ. With our history and his dossier of crazy bluffs, we're happy enough to call and see a flop to re-evaluate our strategy. The flop brings us what looks to be Teh Nutz against HJ's general RFI range. We might be inclined to tighten HJ's range given the reraise, but #SaveTom is unpredictable and can show up with nearly anything. Against a generic RFI range from HJ, we expect we have 98% equity and crush just about everything. With Dwan deferring to us OTF, we lead out feeling more confident about our strength, but not yet removing any hands from his range. We chop with TT and he's only beating us on this flop with QQ. We're good, so far. The Ks OTT drops our equity by a chunk. Dwan has all the Ax, Jx and 9x in his range to make the nuts. We're a little less sure of our situation, but we can't forget HJ's check OTF. Was it trappy? Was it a semi-bluff hoping to improve and didn't? Was it a semi-bluff hoping to improve and did? Ultimately, we think we're just way ahead and we bet for value. Durr gives us that throw-up in our mouth moment by going all-in and committing our stack should we decide to call. We think we're the favourite here. Sets are hard to come by and we expect HJ's range to only come up with trips 5% of the time. Heavy sigh and call. TL;DR takeaway: I love analyzing these hands with emphasis on playing our ranges correctly. When running the numbers, I consistently see where we need to be calling off lest we be folding our premium hands too frequently and, therefore, leave ourself vulnerable to exploit. If we're always playing our range correctly, we can expect to be profitable in the long term.

...and now he’s felted. Brutal game.

wheres the link to this video?

Somebdy tell this guy to stop talking 🙊

If you want to skip the Polk: 00:19 - 02:46 - 04:53 - 11:20

season 9 When will it be broadcast？

wow that;'s impressive dad once a full house on the flop and I still lost to quads

Why so many dislikes?

You talk wayyyyyyyyyyy toooo much. Danggit !

The way he stares at Antonius though

hey at 7 minutes, i wanted to know something you didnt explain. i dont know if its important or not. why did he all in there rather than play for the next card? is it out of his favour to wait it out or would it of been better to make a decently valued bet instead of an all in? @Doug Polk Poker

I cant really enjoy the poker plays when u start talking

if i knew this channel from this guy i wouldn't click on it,,, talk too much,,

Why were there two river cards?? I dint understand I'm new to poker

what is this strike1 strike2 thing on the river?

Too much talking deepshit. I can see it with my eyes!

Stop talking, stop explaining dude... It's simply irritating!!!!....

Hey Doug what’s that ratio tell you?

Doug, re the bluffable hands on the turn by Dwan, would Ace 10 not be very reasonable? Second pair and top kicker on the flop and a lot of possibilities to stay involved on the King turn ?

I feel like you throw jargon around and like to hear yourself talk...it gets irritating

hey Doug, what would u do in a hypethetical situation where, you have TPTK, theres no flushes or straights possible, the turn went check check and u bet about 1/3rd pot for value because you suspect your opponent has a weak hand and want to get called,, you're facing an aggressive opponent who raises because he views the small bet as weakness.. do you call or fold?

Good video Doug! In Antonious shoes I would lean towards a fold. There are 28 combos that beat us (QQ, KK, and AJ which definitely falls under Dwan's squeezing range), and the fact that Dwan is superaggressive SCREAMS a monster hand with the unusual passive-aggressive line he took (check/call flop, check/jam turn). Having said that, one has to ponder about that night's table dynamic until that point...maybe Dwan had been bluffing and shoving back and forth, which wouldn't surprise me. Is my line of reasoning sound in your opinion?

Great analysis from Doug. IMO if I was Antonius I’d be putting my opponent on AJ, but Dwan is a different opponent where his range is anything. Bad beat in the end

I agree. I think this is just one of those spots where Dwans image banks him a nice little return. I think Patrick realises that there aren't that many good bluff cards in this spot when Dwan decides to ship it for all the chips, at which point he's prob praying that Dwan is bluffing (in typical 'duuur fashion) that said, I'm not a huge fan of Dwans shove either. Given the action on both the flop and turn, both straights make for reasonable holdings and if Antonius does find a call, I think the worst hand that should be calling in that spot ought to be the J9. For those reasons, I'd be learning towards a check call with top set. Supremely done as Douglas!

Excellent!👍

Dwan always has that scared Oh No, whatcha gonna do look on his face 😆

break down the hand when young hellmuth tried taking back his all in against the french business man LOL

Polk have u ever did lines with durr

Doug I get that it's probably more popular to review hands like this, but it seems like you pick the most well known and popular coolers and stuff, id like to see you review some more obscure spots in the future. Also, it would be pretty cool if you called the series "Polker hands" or something. Keep it up :)

I could not tell if they froze a picture of Tom Dwan at hte 8:30 mark or if the video was still running..