Hi I’m Doug Polk, I like poker, and my hair is a triangle

What i like about these vids are they aren't edited to death. Don't change your format Doug and thanks for sharing good knowledge.

There aren't too many youtubers that I'll sit and watch talk for 25 minutes.. but I just watched 3 of these in a row. Very informative. Great video man.

Love the roasting of Bilzerian. Long overdue.

I'm at -£2500, hoping to hit zero in the near future!

Really appreciate the video Doug, interesting stuff! I'm a teacher for a job and play some poker on the side. I don't do bad but couldn't very well live on a net of $400 a month now can I? My job pays all expenses and allows me to save a bit so I mostly just play poker for the joy of the game. And the profit (somewhat consistently $4000-5000 a year) goes to a fantastic holiday over the summer and a romantic weekend around the Xmas time. I used to envy players that just make crazy stacks (i don't have the highstakes experience like you do, obv) but the more I learn, the more I'm okay with where I've settled in here. Play poker for as long as it's fun and burn off the profits in the sun =D Have a good one Doug, and whoever else reads this!

I laughed as hell when you started making fun of Dan's interview and google :D great job, Doug!

What about Tom 'durr' dwan. How much does he make a year working as a dungeon slave for the triad?

Dan got his money from his papa and doesnt want to admit it cuz of his big ego.

Net worth between 10,000 and 100 million huh? I KNEW IT!!! GOTCHA NOW

I just love it when people mention Dan Bilzerian as one of the greatest poker players... Hey, you! Come sit at my table!

Doug's broke. I knew the micros would get him.

2:42 I assume you meant million (billion would be cool though)? Great vid btw!

Vintage Doug polk. A little heavier than he is recently, and his hair has a ton of hair gel to make that volcano! Luv u buddy

love your videos man. a tiny request, whenever you make a video that talk about so many numbers, will be cool to have some tiny box on the screen, white box, or something that you can put there the numbers you talking about. yes a bit more edit, but I think it will be worth it.

I lost my shit laughing when you said "And I'm a fucking astronaut". The delivery was pure gold.

Awesome videos!! Absolutely love them! Best regards from Spain

Liking before I watched as we know Doug always puts out the good stuff.

A player is just like poker itself: Lots of variance. Everyone has their own path and own sequence of events they go through.

I gotta say that I always thought Doug was sort of a noninteresting person watching him play poker, but after watching his videos I love the way he communicates. SHOUT OUT TO POLK!

The real question is how much is Binx worth? Three fiddy?

Doug, Wikipedia says that in your early days you were a "breakeven rakeback pro". Did you ever feel back then like poker wasn't for you, you found hard to motivate yourself to grind and learn? And what was the turning point that made you the player you are today?

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Doug very well said, I have been bankrolling several pros for the last 10 yrs or so and I must say I have done extremely well! I been quite lucky although most of my winning came through my decisions on who to use, what game or buy in. No names mentioned but you know as well as I do there are many pro's who couldn't afford a cup of coffee! Bankroll and money management is the key! Just like any other business you have to keep your overhead down! Excellent video Doug and happy to see you being honest on what the real world of Poker is really about! So many young bucks think its easy and its far from that! Times have changed, players are different, computers and websites along with Live Poker games (Seeing hands & action) have changed the game! This is not my real screen name, I am certain you know me but that doesn't matter, Keep up the good work Doug!

Something I've always wondered about, keep them coming Doug! :D

Dan Balzerian is not a poker player, he is simply using it as a cover to spend his father's hidden millions.

Would of been cool to get an idea of what people that play mid-high stakes live make. Like the 5/10 - 25/50 range

Here in canada poker is considered gambling and we don't pay taxes on gambling, could some players live in canada while they play to avoid paying them?

"Sure Dan, and I'm a fucking astronaut." i lost it

Richest online cash game players are probably PLO players. Ben, Jeans, Sauce to name a few. Jeans and Sauce both made 5M according to highstakesdb. Now that's not all of their volume, but let's just go by that number. Ben86 made probably a little bit more since he has been on top for a long time at PLO cash. Can't imagine NLHE cash players putting in much more volume than that honestly and win rates were probably smaller. Saying OTB made 5-10M is quite ambitious. It's closer to 5 than 10 honestly. Same for someone like Trueteller, who is a true NLHE cash grinder.

Doug, i'm a fan of urs and follow ur channel for some time now and i gotta say, not only u give great insight on poker hands and players thoughts but man.... u really crack me up sometimes!! Awesome work! Keep it up!

man its great seeing someone fill the poker content gap. i always felt there was a huge opportunity for great content focused around in depth poker commentary and its great seing you do it so well =) i know its a little meaningless coming from some faceless internet prick but keep it up man. your content is multi mil viewcount quality, and if you keep it up thats eventually going to pay its dividends.

I was half expecting this video to be about 10 seconds long... "Poker players have, on average, about... tree-fiddy." End of vid. :)

I'm finding the micro stakes to be pretty easy to beat. Although, the profit is very slim.

I'm Canadian and it's not true for the amount of taxes. If you play recreationally, sure you don't taxes on gains. But if poker is your job, CRA do tax the earnings as they recognize this as professional income

Thanks for keeping it real Doug. Puts things into perspective even outside of poker for me. Kudos!

The part about Dan Bilzerian was so funny, I wish I could like this video more.

OTB the best player ? - but but Dan made his money from stuff and poker and yeah stuff you know

Just check their stats on shark scope, lots of guys everywhere making money in tournaments. You're definitely correct in saying that most, do lose, but I think most of the people losing are because they simply can't commit the time that some doing it for a living does. If you're doing it for a living the variance becomes a massive edge vs the come and go players which definitely make up the field. I think if you commit to it as your job and you have some good discipline, esp when it comes to managing your bankroll, playing within your means, and correcting tilts, you're going to make money playing tournaments in the long, you just need the odd top 3 or 4 that comes along with hot runs of cards.

I just posted a feed on Facebook asking for a stake in the main event, I dont deserve it but I want it!! Lol Great video as always

Doug Polk the new Tai Lopez? Here in my garage, just bought this new Lamborghini here. I am a long time subscriber and I'm seeing a Doug Polk ad for a Doug Polk video.

Doug is afraid to say Dwan's name.. ;)

Well if I may... I don't know what the expenses are in US. but, I'm from Poland and f.e. at the moment to be a winning player you don't need to player higher than NL50 (where you still have the edge over other players) if you're making around 4bb/100 hands and playing around 1 mln hands / year you earn around $20.000 counting the denomination it's around 80.000 - 100.000 PLN. So it's between 6.500 - 8.500 PLN / month... If you compare the earnings with our country avarage income around 4.000 PLN gross, you're quite good money... and the cost of living here aren't so big after all... f.e. to rent a flat in Warsaw, let's say 2 bed room 1 day room kitchen and bathroom, in a good location, you'll find one for around 3.000 - 5.000 PLN / month. If you would like to buy a flat like this, you need around 400.000 - 500.000 PLN... If, you'll be looking for a 2 room studio flat (bed room, dayroom opened to kitchen, bathroom) you can have one eaven for arounf 1.500 PLN - 2.000 PLN/ month. So in general, looking at the earnings in a perspective of US citizen, yeah the stakes are rigged and hard... but according to countries in cetral europe (Poland, Czech, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, etc.) you're making quite good money eaven when you play only mid stakes... and still i didn't counted rakeback... :)... But it is true, that if you want to be a well known poker pro, you still need to look at it your way :)... never the less great Vlog...

4:05 just showing the result without saying a word, beautiful.

"Sure Dan, and I"m a f'ing astronaut !" brilliant ... ;-)

Shoutout to Jeans who had 100% of himself in the 1MM onedrop, yolo

Hillarious! I discuss poker a lot with my viewers and the most common question is how much luck poker involves? If you were up for it, I'd love to play you heads up in a best of 3 or 5 to show that in the short run it's a lot of luck involved even if we all know I'd be crushed in the long run (I'm a former poker, now casino player). You could name the stakes but please don't make it to brutal.

Respect! Many organizations and players hide this subject to attract more players

in Montenegro the costs of living for a poker player are very low...

Richest players are the full tilt theives

Preach Brother. Straight talk from a professional who does not B.S., at least not outside of the poker table. Thank you for your insight from experience and hard work. P.S., are the sound panels just for your podcasts, or do you make some jams as well? Be blessed.

This guy is always makin a movie off what starts out seeming like as an informational video, gotta love it lol

I just LOVE the sense of humour!

Doug, please answer! how much does Tom Dwan have?

I'm always amazed that some successful players degen it off on sports gambling.

Great video! Thanks for the insides. Nice to see that someone from the "inner circle" actually has the polkers to speak about it.

Jens Klyonnen. He had 100% of himself in a 1 million $ One Drop same year he made 7 million don't know how he's doing now

Doug say hi to Katie and Binks for me !!!! You're the man !

Thank you for sharing an realistic opinion on poker players and playing poker in general Doug!I agree most of them and i thought like that even before poker players started mentioning the hole truth.Because the truth its not only that u can see, a good knowledge in poker and a healthy mentality brings the same thought u has mentioned in the video.Hope u will continue being honest and realistic so the players can know what kind of risks have to pass by playing poker

Hi Doug, I have the rare perspective of being a former low/mid stakes professional. Phatbluntman and Canufrontme on full tilt and poker stars (just so ppl know i'm not BSing, they can look up my profits online). I feel like making any kind of reasonable profit to support a living was ridiculously hard. With cash games, or large MTT's, it's almost impossible for anyone to establish a consistent income, no matter how good you are. Even elite pros who've bagged massive MTT wins, can go YEARS without any meaningful profit. I think Sit n Go's were the most consistent steady form of income, and even then, it was such a grind just to make a solid profit week to week. When you move up in stakes, you have to deal with harder competition AND greater swings in your bankroll. The poker economy also has gone to shit since Black Friday. There just simply aren't any fish anymore. The seas have dried up. Most times nowadays, you're sitting with all regulars, and it just becomes a matter of who's running well that day, and nobody's making money off of anybody. You need like, 30-40 fish per solid pro just for that pro to make enough money to sustain any form of meaningful lifestyle.

Lol Doug, you'll always have a job in stand-up when you tap out.

Hahaha epic ending Doug !!! Nice !!!

One of the most informative and interesting videos ever on poker. It answers a question I had of how a player can lose a cool million dollars in a high stakes televised cash game. You would need to be fantastically wealthy to drop that and walk away nonchalant *_or as I now understand have a team backers_*

Hi i really enjoyed today's video. (keep up the daily uploads btw). At the end of the video you talked about how most people obviously lose or break even. It would be nice if you made a video about how to get to the top/good or how you got so 1337 at the game. Just a video suggestion, don't kill me for asking, plz i don't wanna die ):

Doug i think u forgot one important thing... sponsors? You calculated all the expanses and so on but many PROs have some kind of sponsor for some of the income. So what do u think about that??

Yo Doug, what is crossbooking?

omfg there is so much value in every sentence Doug says xD this reminds me of a dude who have few YT movies about poker tells and he speaks like 10 minutes and there is nothing. None.

Hey Doug, I really like your approach. I work in Finance and figured most of what you expose here. Yes people tend to believe poker players make ALOT more than they actually do. The real successful poker players actually have sponsorships and make money out of those sponsorships. I think its a misconception that is important to expose for younger kids dreaming of being poker pros. You'll have much more success if you spend your time studying poker, studying for school and having good grades...

I live in L.A. area in my opinion no body beats live low limit games because the rake is to high. (Excluding props) So I'm just pulling this number out of my a**. But would it be reasonable to say that out of all the players that play live games in L.A. and cover there own rake. That less than 1% win money or break even? 1 out of 10,000 make $30,000 to $50,000 a year? And 1 out of 100,000 make over $50,000 a year?

Doug it's okay... you're going to make it... if you use all 770 of your play chips to begin a battle back up to the nosebleeds you'll survive!

Doug, whats a good asset to liquid ratio for the average person and the average poker player? (I assume the poker player has to have a higher liquid ratio but im not sure)

Lost a 590 dollar pot in 12 nl.online friday I had AA in the big blind..first to act had QQS and small blind had AK ended up all in preflop..and ace king calls??...flop 10 5 5.k.k....possibility of being rigged, or no?

do u know the real Name if otb redbaron

If ever make 100k a year playing poker. I will be a happy man

WCGRider = Dan Bilzerian confirmed? Btw Doug if you need anything, i'm always here. I got some spare play-money if needed.

Hey Doug. How much money would you recommend I save up for a started bankroll playing live 1/2? I don't want to play for a living but i would like to be able to slowly move into high stakes.

What's the difference between playing a 2k buy-in tourney payed by yourself, and playing a 20k having a 10% of yourself?

who is otb redbaron???

Doug Polk videos are some of the best videos

Epic video Doug! Sound advice about BR management in poker and life in general. I especially like the Dan Bilzerian bit... it just makes sense that he got it from his fam!

Jamie Gold is a good example. Pretty much lost everything.

Doug Broke

Doug, congratulations. Admitting you have a problem is STEP 1 on the Road To Recovery. STEP 2 is to blame it all on Luke Schwartz. Then just wait for Daniel's vague and unsupported comments. LOL GREAT ending bit - really love the self-deprecating side to your humor

Fantastic Doug. You hear from time to time "disputes" between players from loans etc and many occasions I have seen this situation of players being a lot less liquid than one might think. Really appreciate your honesty is that 100 million USD? Thats impressive. Does that include the 30mil pot with Durrrrr>??

Don't feel too bad, Doug. I went on a massive downswing in the 40¢ 10-max SNGs and have since been in makeup for, like, forever. Kappa

so polk how much money do you really have? :P

Doug make a vid on Tom Dwan and what you think about him as a poker player? And maybe where hes at now and how hes doing. (if you know) thanks!

Hi, I am about to begin playing low stakes online. Can I get your advice on a few things via this thread or email? What sites do you play on or recommend for NLHE cash games? Tourneys? Best Rake back? Easiest player field? Do you use HUD? PokerTracker or Hold'em Manager? Why that one? Thanks 😀.

Should have gone the UK route with citizenship. 0 tax and we are actually allowed to gamble online

18:26 "they fail, because, you know... math."

Doug, I'm brand new but think I might have what it takes. All I'm interested in is playing at local casinos in MD outside of DC. Can you make decent money in low profile casino hold em games? Is that even a thing or do casinos just offer poker as tournaments? I appreciate any advice.

I’m shocked Doug’s networth is over $10,000. These KZfaq videos must pay really well.

wait wait. how about when you can play but suckout after sucklout happens. aa v kk loses soooo much.

2019 anyone?

Doug is absolutely right. The rake $ucks. Literally. Back in the day, there was no house dealer, and the card-room rake on 2,5 limit was $2.00/ half hour per player. A full table lost ~$50/hr, including tokes to the house-man. Now change that to house-dealer, 10% rake up to $3.00 hand, plus tokes, and ~$150/hr disappears from the same table. That's an extra $10/hr per player, GONE. If you were a grinder making $15/hr, you just took a 2/3 pay cut. At that rate, you now have two choices 1) get a "real" job, or 2) higher stakes, where the rake % is also lower. You damn sure better have a consistent A-game and disciplined spending to survive that route. Even so, you're back to grinding, and. Grinding IS a real job. You want to win big at poker...be the house!

how can u assume that mtt topreg have 50-100 or 150% roi when most of them has on average 10% roi over large sample?

How much money does Brad Booth have?

Lets try make a list guys :D Poker players with 10mil$+ in BR. 1. Phil Ivey 2. Patrick Antonious 3. Antonio Esfandiari 4. Phil Hellmuth 5. Dan Collman 6. Sam Trickett 7. Doyle Brunson 8. Johhny Chan 9. Erick Seidel 10. Daniel Negreanu 11. Scott Seiver 12. Andrew Robl 13. JRB (jk :D hehe ) Was i close...there is one more player cant remember...Polk or something :P

Hey Doug. . . Love all your content and appreciate what you are doing. What do the sponsored pros make from their sponsorships such as DNegs, Jason Sommerville, Mercier, Selbts from pokerstars, Trickett and others from Party. Insurance? Salary? Buy Ins? Please elaborate with the info you know. Thanks again and keep up the good work.

What is the best way to grow a bankroll. Online cash, live cash, online tournaments or live tournaments?