I think a cool video idea could be "How good is Magnus Carlsen at poker" and analyse some of his hands. Would interest the chess audience I think

"Do you have some kind of 'weird' (translation: 'totally normal') overpair here?" - Taras

Keep pumping out the content Doug. It’s much appreciated.

I can't for the life of me fathom how Taras could so incisively review the hand stream-of-conscious-mode facing that river jam, fail to list any possible hands he would beat in doing so.................and then call it. Like, whaaaaaaaaaaattt? 😐

anyone else think of lord of the rings when they see taras

Damn if he had just $10 more the pot would have been $420,420 😃

Lodge has this high stakes poker vibe, good job

Great vid, Doug and it has that great "Doug-Commentary "I have been missing for so long!!!!!! Was this just a case of getting the "bully?" Maybe, but fun, anyway!!!!!

11:53 Yeah, I agree. 87s is probably a little bit better here. Probably.

@dougpolk a great video would be reviewing the hand of Hellmuth vs slime Where hellmuth "mucked" then unmucked his cards after slime exposed his cards thinking he had won the pot. It was from the hustler stream with ninja and Mr beast. Would love your input on if Phil folded or not

Was giving this a listen while in the shower and I kept thinking “Who is this ‘terrorist’ that he’s talking about?” I lol’d when I saw the name. Another good one by the master! Keep them coming daddio ❤️

I really like the idea of the math of the standup game and how it affects strategy, but my intuition is that the answer is you shouldn't deviate from optimal strategy at all even when the standup game is on, unless the penalty for losing standup is more than a full buy in. If there are N players, then if you lose 1/N times on average, then you will break even no matter how much the price of losing the standup game is. Since the standup game is a fixed limit, but the poker is no-limit, then if the penalty for losing the standup game is less than a full buy in, given that you risk losing a full buy in by playing sub optimal strategy, I don't see how you could justify changing the percentages for optimal play. You just are not winning enough extra money to justify losing EV in the actual poker by playing differently.

Somebody put the Bart Simpsons Say the line meme before the next video so he says the line. half of me came here for great funny content, the other half came here to hear "Hey, welcome back to another episode of PoLker hands. We believe in you editorial staff.

2023 is the year of watching Doug for me! Now if I could just get The Lodge to build a room up here in Dallas so I could play there.

Hi what is was that finger signal sent at 4:39?

Wondering what the bet is with content? Consecutive days? Min per video per days??

Based on a notification that showed up on my screen to the effect that Doug polk had a hand to show me, i clicked on the hand and within seconds was confronted with the Giggler in a Cowboy hat so I immediately went to the comment section to note that I did not wish to "lie down with dogs because I don't want to get up with fleas" and as a result I didn't see the hand but it was worth not seeing....or hearing.....if you get my drift.

Has anyone ever clocked Nik Hairball not talking for 30 seconds or more?

That's a great video and all but why did you change your T-shirt? I need answers!

Doug, Im pretty sure I saw you at my hometown casino on Friday evening. What brings you to Rhode Island?!

your humor kills me hahah

ad for an ad :D love it

"To you guys at home, if you're going to call on the turn then you have to call on the river." Too true. Equivalently, if you're not going to call on the river, then you must fold on the turn.

editor cut off doug saying how he never loses the standup game 🤣

Doug moved on from his S-tier eyebrow game

18:12 '' Light it up chat if you got it '' I see what you did here :D

Doug your content is the best... nobody got shit on u!

I'm starting to get confused seeing all the thumbnail images of Doug Polk staring at KK with his jaw hanging open. I swear there have been three of them this week alone.

anybody else notice that dylan folded the nuts preflop? KJo in +2. definitely playable

15:17 a good rule of thumb if you play 1/2 and 1/3 is to ignore this advice. Massive three barrels aren’t much of a thing. You can fold the river a ton.

WOW you must love Rhode Island. Just a weekend trip to chum the waters and right back on the videos lol Nice seeing you there. Save us from the tragedy that is Boston Encore rake hiking.

The analysis doesn't quite make sense. Doug agrees we're still ahead on turn aside from 87. We're always ahead on this river except for 63 of clubs.

cant believe its 2023 and doug is giving us daily polker hands

When he called I yelled a lil

Another idea for a video would be how do pros analyze recreational players

"Do you have some kind of weird overpair here? Like aces or kings?" Oh, you mean the ONLY overpairs? This isn't that strange of a line from KK first to act.

lmao the callstation refusing to fold after naming all the hands that have him beat. 😂

Magnus: He must have some kind of a monster. The flop his wet AF mate can't you feel like you are slipping with a middle pair?

He was trying so hard to talk himself into the fold.

Bart Hanson disagrees with your logic of calling river if you call turn and board doesn’t change..

Calling station?

I cannot believe he called. I would be sick.

one of the worst calls ive ever seen

The nit game is so much better than the standup game. That is really weird to watch on stream.

If I understand the squid button correctly, then I think it would be easy for me to calculate. I'd just ignore it. I figure it's probably going to make the other players play sub-optimally, and if you just ignore it, then your profit will increase. Depends on how big it is, of course. If it's a huge penalty, then my calculation would be even easier. I wouldn't play in that game.

Its funny how Taras points out all the hands that beat him and still ends up calling.

420 POT GUYS

11:55 yeah 87suited would probably be a little bit better here 😂

Doug you should have the first stream to have muted or near muted commentators. It’s so tilting trying to listen to the conversations with the commentators yapping.

why is nik wearing a hcl sweatshirt

That was a god awful call. Theoretically he beats AK, AJ & 88 & you’d have to be 100% certain. If I’m being bluffed there it’s cool because I can beat nothing. So not worth it, unreal.

Oh and for your information garret has been seen playing in the big home games around LA

What does timing tell mean? Like they take awhile to bet?

I hate that when you miss top pair a flush and a straight.

I would love to be at a table with taras

while i understand your river analysis, the way the pot is set up, if he does anything else and Taras jams, he may have to call.

Would be good to see a stream where the Nit game is always active. Once a looser is determined a new Nit game is started.

I've never seen this guy win, plus his personality at the table is just weird

Be better without doug and airball yapping in the background.

Anyone wanna guess how many Ethereum Taras has? Its gotta be like between 5-10,000 ethereum tokens right?

Guy's ad is literally asking for sponsors.

Love the content. Here I was thinking you going to acknowledge the elephant in the room about the stuff from the guy in Chicago but nope… it was a month old hand

Why in the world didn't the guy fold. The guy with KKs was consistent. He bet big time from the get go. This means he's got a big hand or he is bluffing. When you are playing with A 10 and get to the river and only pick up a pair of 10s there is so many other hands that have got you beat. Pairs higher than 10s, a couple of different sets. The odds are against you winning the hand.

I hate when people name all of the hands that beat them and pretend they are handreading.

It seems a lot of people feel they have claims to first.

Aces, Kings, Queens, AQ. You must have a monster. Ok, I call. Fak

Sickkk watch

Doug, your analysis is great as usual, but I think you're overcomplicating this very bad hand by Taras. It's your card room so you don't wanna bash the players too much,, understandable. So I will. Where do I even start with this? The only thing right about Taras' play here is that he had position to call with A10. Still not a great call IMO, calling a huge 3-bet with A10 isn't my favorite move. Out of position it's a slam dunk fold. Depends on the opponents, obviously, but the only way I'm calling here is against the fishiest of fishes in the deep blue sea. Someone with a range so wide they play 8-5 suited regularly. Against somebody like that, I can see calling a 3-bet in position. I don't know KBM very well at all because I haven't kept up, but he doesn't strike me as a fish. Then flop comes queen high, opp barrels again for what, 2/3 pot on the flop, and we flop second pair... the move is fold 99% of the time and shove 1% of the time. Shove probably would not have worked here, but there's a chance. As long as you really do only shove 1% of the time in this position, there's a chance that opp (if they're a TAG player) lays down his KK and figures you for smooth calling Aces PF, and congratulates himself for the hero fold! But we have the added complication that apparently Taras not only bluffed earlier but showed a bluff????? Good lord, showing bluffs is a really bad idea, showing cards at all is a terrible idea. This is just one of thousands of reasons why. So probably a shove doesn't work. Not because he BLUFFED earlier but because he SHOWED a bluff earlier. But it certainly would have worked better than passively calling flop, turn, and river!!!!! What hands do we even beat here? On any of the streets? It's really hard to even come up with anything other than a pure bluff. And that's super unlikely given the pf action, regardless of the history of the players. Calling flop, turn, and river is just crazy to me, and I don't think I would ever call in any of those spots. A small continuation bet, sure. But 2/3 pot c-bet? No. Then the crazy ramps up on the turn and river. I agree that if you call the turn, most of the time you're gonna wanna call that nothing-river as well, if you have pot odds and think the pot odds match or exceed the possibility it's a bluff, but here he would have had to have like a 30% chance opp is bluffing to win. There's no way this is a bluff 30% of the time, and again, what hands do we beat? Opp is practically screaming KK or AA, the whole time, enough that Taras even said KK out loud. Yeah this is definitely a situation where you realize you made a bad call on the turn and fold the river. Ideally you realized it 2 streets ago. But better late than never. Don't throw good money after bad. Second pair should have been an easy fold on every street here. Including the river.

lol he made a good thought and then he called out of a blue

Polka time

hello, Doug

Nij Airball in da house?

He raised it 5k more Terass only throws in one pink

He names every hand that beats him and then calls. Wth

I just realized doug is only making videos every day to promote the lodge

Does he talk about how he is so rich? I don’t watch streams

POLKER HANDS = im a genius!

Every noun then

Exact same thing happen to me. Just that my opponent is nit rolling with 36 clubs and calls.

No, no, this is not the player that ? Well, anyway, U tried 2 educate, but plz with ... that R players that people learn from

Nice legs behind KBM kept me watching. This is an easy fold, IMO, on the turn, if not the flop.

I’m out on the turn but that’s just me 🤷‍♂️

Doug Polk is the greatest of all time

Its pretty clearly just one of those setups... where you should not be calling turn to make your life hard trying to play for the "buff catching" mby with Aq you could do it, or with good draw, but like you dont even beat Qx. Very bad call on the river... like when you cant make any reasonable hands that your opponent likely hass that you beat... you should fold LOL

Taras' table talk is incredibly annoying and off putting for the stream. Hopefully for the sake of the table this shut him up for a little bit

kbm is the goat

does airball ever shut his pie hole when guys are trying to play the hand hes not it?

KBM = KINGS BEAT MOST

You don’t gotta make a video just to make a video daily 😅

You guys should just play the "Flip the Coin Game", for like hundreds of K's a pop, I hear that's REALLY exciting and fun!!! XD

Airball is so damn annoying…

Why do you chat so long, please cut it down a little.

It warms my heart when I see Taras lose a monster pot 🤗. I'm human, give me a break

290 + 130 + 130 is 550 not 450. Maths don’t adds ups

What a terrible call

Oh man, he knows he’s beat the whole time but wants to be the hero, yikes.

We're gonna need a mic that can't pick up Nik Butterball's voice. That tub of _____ is just too annoying to be allowed.

So poorly played lol.

That was a RAMPAGE or Mariono kinda punt

3:53 why is there some jerk talking at the table, while two players are trying to focus?