Wins a million dollars, still can't afford sleeves

He didn't properly balance his loosey goosey range with his eating a sandwich range.

He didn't understand that everything he does at the poker table conveys information.

The rake wasn’t high enough for dnegs to be serious.

Game selection was his biggest leak Doug. LMFAO.

Daniel just tweeted - "Losing more money to Doug is actually better"

Dnegs played almost 100% sausage theory optimal

I know this is on the dry side but its more focused on strategy. If you want to learn more from me check out this free lesson of our first session upswingpoker.com/hu4grudge-insights/

This challenge has resulted in a rich source of HU poker analysis from J Little and many others. Many of us keen non-pros have benefitted from Negreanau being man enough to pony up and play against a very strong hu player (and lose a million)!

Loved it Doug. I’m gonna miss the content from you. Hopefully you will develop a random love of poker again in a couple of years. Best of luck moving forward.

Congratulations on the win! Well deserved. Are you now able to afford some shirts with sleeves??? :)

Big congratulations on your win Doug. We’re going to miss you brother.

Doug I impressed at your review of Daniels' play during this challenge. I expected you to review it differently. You have earned my respect by giving him the credit he deserves for playing a very difficult challenge against one of the best heads up players. Kudos to you

Never been a fan of "reaction videos" but would love to see a video of Dnegs live reacting to this

I like how you were lining up the sound proofing squares on the wall nicely, then like halfway down you just said fuck it and gave up trying to make it symmetrical.

i personally would love if Doug coached Dnegs in his upcoming heads up game.. what a story that would be

Pretty cool of you to acknowledge his game in a way that wasn't disrespectful. Even though he lost a million.

Congrats Doug! Been watching you play and your videos since I was 15 and turned 21 yesterday and going to Vegas today to play in some tournaments. I’ve learned a lot from your videos over the years but this challenge was amazing and super insightful thanks for all your content and knowledge of the game over the years. Definitely gonna miss this challenge and poker videos again. Best of LUCK on you next endeavors #morerake

I like the respect that you give Dneg! Good sportsmanship!

Most relaxed I’ve seen you in a vid in ages ... amazing how a million bucks makes you feel :)

Sharks after taking fish money: You played good, I give you B+. Come back next week.

As a fan of poker, I appreciate both you and Daniel going this. It was a great rail during covid. Thanks for doing it!

"What's up guys, Doug Polk here"... It's been so long, those words almost made me cry

He just won 1 million. Dominated thoroughly. But still analytical and humble! Kudos and congrats to the win, Doug!

It would have been so easy to be smug and condescending in this breakdown, but you stayed classy. Respect.

Doug's tone is so objective and respectful to Dnegs but i bet Daniel hates it lol. He was still banging on about luck and missed draws in his last stream.

im going to miss having this channel up 3 days a week

Listening to Doug allows me to realize how much the game passed me by and how much I didn't apply myself.

Respect to both it was fun to see something by 2 stars of the game

The crooked acoustic foam panels in the background are driving my OCD absolutely nuts. Please fix that.

DAMN you are sharp Doug! Total respect! I really like how you refer back even to the first live session, as you realized that he revealed important information with his comment about your bluff selection. You are - always - such a good and clear teacher! Keep it man, where ever you go

Doug with the “acoustic foam + shit headset” setup. Rock it, brotha

I don’t think Daniel gets enough credit for how well he played/adjusted, no other “old school” live pro could come close to the level of play he reached.

Vanessa looking a little pasty after the long grind of this challenge

I feel so honored to have watched this challenge! Congrats Doug! Once again the supreme leader took one for the team! Take care good sir

Best of luck Doug! Thanks for everything you did for the game and the players! Love from norway, and the rest of the world!

Doug I love seeing you talking positively about Daniels game. You’re clearly the better heads up player but it’s nice when you’re humble about it. Great work.

You guys made history :) Thanks for the run. Great review!

Congrats to you my man,you did hell of a job this challange ,it is inspireing. I think you should consider coming back to heads up nl,that format just suites you and i dont think there is many people who would have the edge against you.

Really glad you two buried the hatchet. Big fan of you both

Enjoy your "idle rich" life Doug. I hope you find something you can grind hard AND also really enjoy.

Was totally expecting Daniel to call in at the end of the video for some closure. You guys complete each other

Daniel seemed to have missed so much value on the river with his checks or check backs or check calls or just calls.

Congrats on the win Doug! It's great seeing you play as always. Enjoy whatever you're doing my friend.

can you at least keep doing Poker Hands for us dude? Like 1 video a month or something?

Hey Dnegs is down a million but at least doug said he played well for a live player lol

Just wins 1.2 million, still vlogging in pajamas. Doug your the man, congratulations

What you have to understand is that everything you do at the table, conveys information. You can't be loose goosey, holding your beefy sausage. Oh baby, I love it!

Doug have you ever considered making a pun out of Polk and poker, something like Polker hands would be so clever!

He seemed to think in the post match interview that he was more likely to be just missing on hands. KQs on a J10(same suit board) that doesnt get there in any way. he seemed to think this is where he was losing money..instead of the points you are making in this video that have nothing to do with luck and everything to do with how to play.

I'm really.pleaaed in the respect shown to his game. Great effort Doug, and the analysis is spot on.

Thanks for all you've done for the poker community. Congratulations on going out on top!

I think I said this on your last retirement final video explaining hands in the wider context of the game's strategy but it's worth saying again. There's no-one who comes close to being able to zoom out then zoom in from the macro perspective to the micro as well and as casually as you do.

For someone who quit poker you sure just played a lot of poker.

Really, really good analysis Doug

I think this was a fair an honest assessment of what we all saw this session. Honestly the sessions Daniel battled back from being down 2-300k in a few sessions to get back to even was some of the best poker he played. He flirted with playing extremely well but ultimately hasn’t fully unleashed himself from years of thinking in a certain way. Anchoring bias is a really tough one to overcome but overall I was very impressed with how he played. If he played like he was in the last quarter of the challenge and was running good there is a really chance he could have won this, but he simply didn’t catch up in skill wise fast enough. If Daniel keeps at it I think he could be very dangerous in the future. Overall, this was excellent for poker as a whole.

What's up guys You need to understand that everything you do at the table, conveys, Beefy Sausage

doug is looking more like daniel every day. in all seriousness, I missed these vids, the music struck a pang in missing old doug polk vids. Best of luck in your future endeavors.

24:50 I'm not sure I understand this logic. Why would bluffing with Q4 be better? Is it simply because it blocks set of 4s and two pair with 4s?

Great breakdown! Loved the challenge, congrats on the W!

Let this sink in for a minute...Dnegs has been a winning player for 20+ years, amassing millions in winnings and at times arguably one of the best NL tournament players in the world. That same person competed his ass off, played exceptionally well and still managed to lose 1.2 million dollars. Doug Polk = 🐐, what else is there to say.

You're just lucky, that's all.

@Doug: thanks for a really honest and I thought classy in-depth postmortem of the challenge. No BS out of you-really appreciate it. I hope I learned something from watching most of the challenge.

Spectacular assessment. Rounded, thoughtful and honest. Thank you.

The most important part of this is that Fee won his bet with Deeb on the last day.

Let's dispel once and for all with this fiction that D-Negs doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing!

Well played man, next level thinking in play. Big respect to DNegs as well for not bailing out at the half way point when over half a mill down.

Very well played both of you! 🤙🏼

Are pocket sausages a strong holding? I usually try to get action on my sausage after the flop.

Doug “I’m retired but will still take 1m from dnegs” Polk lol. The supreme leader has risen!

Will miss you dude. Congratulations on your win and good luck on all future endeavours. You will be missed

Thanks, Doug. You're a great guy and you inspire me in my regular life outside of poker.

We 💖 Doug!

Doug, just say the word "Owned"

great review Polk, thank you for the challenge. respect!

Doug’s analysis is marvellous! This is how poker supposed to be approached. It’s not like the “sometimes we check, sometimes we bet” I’ve heard somewhere else 🙄🤌

I'm sure this will get lost in the comments and Doug will never see it, but, on the off chance. I just wanna thank Doug and Daniel for doing this challenge. It takes a pair to put yourself out there for the whole world to see and open yourselves up for certain criticism. I think this was great for poker and gave a lot of people something to look forward to in this crazy world atm. I honestly still can't understand why Daniel took this challenge. He knew he was a huge dog and did it anyway. It proves what we all knew is that he has plenty of f-u money and went for it. Thanks to both and a huge congratulations to Doug!

What I liked most about the challenge is that you seem to havea lot more respect for each other.

Gotta have the classic George Fields royalty-free chill hop in the mix. Brings me back to the good ol' days.

This is classy as fuck, i love it! Doug being humble in the win and giving props to Daniel.. Well done Doug

Huge contrast in post-analysis, DNegs in his post-session interview after the final session said "I've never run this bad in my life" 🤣😃😆

Well done video, u really are an excellent evaluator and explainer. Thanks for sharing

I think the probability of the frequency with Q 7 counteracts the variance on the 3 bet turn, check river-sectional that dictates, if you 4 bet the turn and pot River, the variance clearly states you fold J9.

Doug, change your name to Eddie Munster

Congratulations Doug! I’m so happy that you smoked him for $1.2 million. Now you can retire a legend.

How to describe the amount of joy this video brings you. I really can't.. I'm only 60 seconds in. I'm entertained to say the least hahaha

Tremendously entertaining, thanks to both you and Daniel. You played amazing. :D

Doug, in the insight video, when you look at the solver you often say something like: raise is 0.2bb (20bb/100) better than call. But the thing is that you didn't run solver long enough. The theory says that against other GTO strategy the EV difference in mixed hands is exactly zero. It is usually possible that if you run solver long enough that you would get that a hand is not mixed (the hand you thought is mixed), or you will get exactly zero EV difference. The proof for that is very simple.

My respect for DN's technical abilities as a poker player went up as a result of this challenge. I genuinely thought he would get annihilated and, despite the eye-watering $ figure, in terms of ev bb/100 it was far from that. I still maintain the belief that a lot of the old-school name pros would've got absolutely rinsed (not naming names but genuinely believe a lot of those guys would have tables revolving around them at 500nl online) but I think it's fairly clear that DN is separate from those guys. I wasn't convinced before this challenge. However, his bitching about variance is a symptom of a live player not understanding the brutality of online, and the brutality of online HU specifically. But even at 6max reg tables when you're grinding 400+ hands an hour, you'll have spells where you greenline just plummets mercilessly in a very short period of time. Live that might be a few days of grind. He's def a bit of a noob in that regard - probably not helped by it being both online and HU.

i'm impressed how doug has a sleeve of his muscles shirt rolled up

Good job Doug, you certainly made your fans proud. I am proud of you.

Somebody should've told Daniel that he can't be all loosey goosey eating a sausage

Negreanu is watching this with his sausage still in hand

My brain is now full! Great video and challenge!!

Amazing 'Last dance' Doug. Congrats.

The One dislike is definitely Mr " More rake is better " Negreanu, GG Pugless Dolk

Daniel Negreneau’s mysterious coaches for this challenge: Eric Lindgren and Phil Hellmuth

Most importantly, Dougie finally made a new video for his beloved KZfaq poker channel!

Way to go Doug. Appreciate the analysis, and, realized through these sessions how f'in difficult heads-up is. Like tuition, he got his grades A-, B+, etc. for the paltry sum of $1.2 mil. Expensive Polk University!

Imagine pissing someone off so much they give you 1.2 million honestly raked dollars from Pokerstars users