Feuding Poker Players Fight Over A $100,000 Pot

Matt Berkey managed to make it to this Live at the Bike game, where he and I got involved in one of the biggest pots of the week. He faced a tough river decision in which calling would mean playing for a pot of over $100,000. Should he make the hero call, or fight to live another day?
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[@arturobandini792]

The Master Doug Polk reveals the insight and strategy behind winning the lottery.

[@Jolly-Green-Steve]

Yeah cash 3 is like 1 in 1000 this was only 1 in 400 you are way out of line sir!!

[@atm9566]

He clearly got lucky. He is a great player. But talking shit on this kind of win is over the top. Berky knew he didn't have shit and was bluffing. I think he made perfect call. His read was dead on. Doug just got lucky. Lol

[@adventuresoftheuneducatedh7813]

By lottery you mean 52 different cards ? 52 possibilities yeah wish the lottery was that easy

[@arturobandini792]

@@adventuresoftheuneducatedh7813 No you took that too literally in this case winning the lottery simply meant absurdly lucky.

[@AcrylicGoblin]

Lol

[@Yoboyeddieboy]

I noticed that Doug never EVER says he made a bad play. He always justifies his bad plays with jibberish. That being said, I gotta get ready for a big game, 25c./50c. Max buy in 5 dollars, wish me luck.

[@DougPolkPoker]

+TheVoiceofReason I have said I made a mistake from time to time (like the Q6o hand in the super high roller blog). But if me getting there on a bluff means I should "admit" I made a mistake, then no, I will justify my play

[@carpediem26333]

nice 10 bb game you are playing in

[@SchnackfattLP]

So let me rephrase what you are saying: Bluffing = playing bad. That’s basically what you are saying when you think Doug shouldn’t 3-barrel one of his best bluffing hands, if not THE best. I’m impressed how many people fail to understand sound logic after 18 minutes long explanations. If you don’t understand a play ask questions but don’t assume you have a better understanding of the game than one of the best poker players out there. Sure, Fedor is better but Doug is not too bad either. ;)

[@dochmbi]

yeah jibberish, gto is jibberish, totally, nice troll.

[@Yoboyeddieboy]

Incase you guys are taking me serious, I was being Sarcastic, meaning I wasn't being serious.

[@misomiso8228]

14:12 i love Garret's eyes at this point - he is so involved watching, probably thinking thank god that isn't me, but still thinking about the hand so much.

[@ristohyvonen9913]

Probably checking did he find any tells how doug bet.

[@andrewmccollum7545]

Doug did you make it 30.5k on the river so that you could put >100k in the title? Such a thoughtful dude

[@DougPolkPoker]

+Andrew McCollum 🙃

[@frankbattlejr981]

Doug Polk Poker Do they give you an hour and a half to run all this through your head during the game?

[@putaleche]

Had not seen this one before, literally burst out laughing at that river.

[@mrman487]

Look at Garrett's eyes as Doug reaches for chips on the river. LOL 14:00

[@Seaton1518]

mrman487 Too much adderal.

[@adz124ps]

mrman487 I spat my coco pops out!!

[@paulee911]

Lol somebody please make a gif

[@peacefulman4594]

mrman487 LMAO

[@flex2125]

lmfaoooo

[@chickenchauffeur3791]

almost looks like doug mirrored tom dwan in his table demeanor...the way he stares at nothing, blinks, bobs his head every time he completes his chip shuffle...looks 100% mimic'd every single step

[@Seaton1518]

Chicken Chauffeur he is secretly in love with Dwan.

[@HarryWeinfurth]

Looks gay as hell...cheap ass durr fake

[@IRush514]

I was thinking the same thing, Dwan is clearly Doug’s idol

[@kellywalker9295]

wow i so agree...lol

[@antr5459]

Doug is a big if not the biggest Dwan fanboy...

[@joeingram1]

I was wondering who was commentating and then I realized it was me... "Holy guacamole"

[@jonathancoryell7232]

joeingram1 relatively no one likes this

[@WayneChiangPoker]

lol

[@SnyderBearFarm]

keep fighting the good fight of making Feldman shut the fuck up!

[@joemanna491]

r u still doin coke?

[@stefan-t--]

chicago joey is doug polks number 1 fan, I see you in the comments more than anyone else lmao

[@TS1six]

HAHA!! "Holy shit, that's a full house!" So good. The cutaway to Dwan's face at the end was too much!!

[@Muffinarm_]

take your courage

[@anthonymeeker3172]

a clip of dwans confused face was perfect.

[@theartof2ndplace237]

"Do you wanna know what makes me feel like I'm in my back yard? BEING IN MY BACK YARD!" That had me 😂😂😂 That comment was ROFL 🤣 worthy!!!

[@theejayzeeable]

Chad Carter Lol seriously? So the next time YOU say something FIGURATIVELY, and someone counters weakly by going LITERAL, you're going to laugh your ass off? Lol. Figures of speech aren't supposed to be taken literally nor countered literally, geniuses!

[@michaelschwartz837]

Hey Doug, amazing content as always. Just wondering, if the river bricks, as you said you were planning on putting the third barrel, which sizing would you go for considering you've already overbet the turn ? Thanks

[@joshoowa]

He just said he was planning a third barrel to excuse the fact that he was just playing the lottery.

[@patrickmcgrath5141]

Garret’s face when Doug bets the River 😂😂😂

[@griffy85b]

Garret's face while Doug is cutting out his bet..... priceless.

[@mydogsbestfren7490]

o man that dwan look at the end got me rolling

[@FedorMachida]

lol, Nosferatu was absolutely pissed on the River! ha ha.

[@deel1312]

Doug: so he can't have a 7 of diamonds because there's one on the board. he can't have a 7 of clubs because there's one on the board.... captain Doug Paul. lol!

[@TeoGPoker]

@16:46 .... Like a kid on Christmas day, getting the present he's always wanted 😀

[@georgeqiao1464]

Teo G Poker Vlog Doug literally can not contain the smile and rush of happy brain chemicals haha

[@TeoGPoker]

George Qiao totally happy go lucky! 😀😀

[@theejayzeeable]

Teo G Poker or like every happy fish who gets lucky.

[@MrAndersonmm]

I'm surprised Vanessa is joking about AA vs 77 on A77xx boards... That was a pretty bad cooler in the ME...

[@brandonmitchell4845]

MrAndersonmm this comment is fucking amazing LOL

[@utkarshshrivastava1141]

@@brandonmitchell4845 underrated comment

[@torourk]

Hey Doug! Can you please teach me how to bluff raise the flop and then to hit runner runner trips?

[@mycommentpwnz]

HAHAHAHAHA!!!! 14:09 !!! Garrett's face!!! Dude is DEFINITELY THINKING, "This guy is lighting chips on fire, as this might be the most transparent bluff I've ever seen. Nobody raises a 7 on the flop."

[@niels8195]

You should

[@mattneil1449]

Look at g man's eyes at that river bet lol

[@adamzdunek3932]

I love this excuse !!! You don’t have much on the flop BUT your “hand is kind of COOL” 😁😂😁

[@AT-qm8gv]

It was honestly a cool hand to play lol

[@aaronsoto4622]

This hand is basically the sole reason they dislike each other. Lol

[@therealrick1661]

Legend has it that Berkey is still stunned from that play

[@josephtousignant7318]

That River suck out reminds me of a hand I was in at Turning Stone Casino in New York about 9 years ago that cost me the biggest pot of my life! (and represented about 1/2 years net income on my day job) This was when they had a bigger cash game ($5-$10 NL $5K max), and I had bought in for $5,000 and had a stack of a bit over $7,000 when this hand started. I have QT suited and I flat call a $50 bet preflop out of position. Three players including me see the flop,...which comes QQK rainbow. One player bets pot size $150, I raise to $2,000 to isolate this player, player after me folds, and the $150 bettor calls my raise. The turn comes a TEN, giving me the QQQTT boat, and the guy checks to me. I shove my $5,000 remaining and he calls with what I later learn is AK os. So he's come ALL this way with my big raise and bets on that QQK flop with just K's,...and he CALLS my $5K turn bet besides,.....geeze. River comes the case K, as a player said later he folded a K. So there I lost a $14,000+ pot to a lucky river giving him KKKQQ higher boat on a ONE outer! The Poker God's are mighty cruel sometimes, rewarding really bad play as what happened here with Doug's hand. :-)

[@MrAndersonmm]

My impression of youtube comments: "I'm a low-stakes losing player and I hate it when bad players river me in spots like this, so I'm going to take my aggression out on a guy who is clearly one of the best NLH players in the world and say his bad play just got lucky. I'll ignore the fact that he had planned on betting all-in instead of 30k on the river if the board didn't double pair; I'll ignore the fact that a 60k bet is very different than a 30k bet. I'll ignore that even if his 60k bet got called it doesn't mean his line is bad because you have to bluff a lot at higher stakes games to be profitable because most players will beat the strategies I use to try (and fail) to win at low stakes." I think that sums it up.

[@PaterTenebrarum1]

MrAndersonmm Indeed.

[@peterschiff4236]

I think Polk picks which hands he shows on his channel, I wouldnt be proud of playing that bad though.

[@Nasdupree9090]

With that board Matt’s calling him, especially if he jams all in. Matt’s never putting him on a 7, he played it like he had an ace. If he’s tryna represent the 7 than he just flats the flop bet. He got lucky end of story.

[@dianaallen6215]

Really? The only reason he didn't snap call the river is because he DIDN'T bet all in. He was inducing a bluff the whole time. Genius

[@randylahey8207]

​@@Nasdupree9090why would Doug EVER play an ace like that? Absolutely no reason to raise that flop with any Ace, it's an easy call. He's saying I have a Seven, or I have a bluff. Sized up on the turn to push out pairs between 10's and Kings and weak Aces, then got lucky and got paid. Try and get basic analysis correct before going after one of the best cash games players on the planet...

[@kdhorvath68]

So if the 9 doesn't come and polk bluffs at the river i guess we are having a different conversation. Folding the flop might be more sensible than the analysis we got on this hand

[@harry-bx9ct]

how people still don't understand dougs sense of humour amazes me

[@Ewochable]

amazes me too. Let's write a thesis about it. So amazing.

[@jsr9422]

@@Ewochable hey bro, i just finished my thesis on Doug Polk's sense of humor. Shoot me your email and I'll cc you if you wouldn't mind proof reading. Cheers!

[@Grumpeljism]

What's to get? He's just a narcissistic bully, and a troll for no reason other than he thinks it will get him action. He really has a hard on for trying to bully live pros into play him heads up. Unless I hung out with him in person and saw he's different, then it's pretty obvious to most people who he is. He did in interview once where he was asked if he plays in any big games with celebrities, and he said he doesn't get invited to those. Pretty obvious why.

[@tuwalee7406]

Ugh explain the humor here. Is he trying to clown himself? Because he did.

[@smokinjoe4709]

@@Grumpeljism yes very obvious... he would felt them.

[@MinivanBella]

Doug trying to explain how he didn't donk off chips in this clip lol 😆 😂 🤣.

[@ToCatchaCheater]

Anybody else notice that that's SoFlo sitting at the table with them?

[@georgewbushcenterforintell147]

Yes he got destroyed. Very very badly . The next night people were actually concerned for his well being .someone on stream asked if he is okay ..the said he went back to Asia ..?

[@wangtangkiki]

@@georgewbushcenterforintell147 lol what.. no way?? any sources?

[@georgewbushcenterforintell147]

@@wangtangkiki I used to watch every night and was a player on the show once and had a annual subscription

[@quiet_erp]

Who is SoFlo?

[@pinoypapapizza]

​@@quiet_erp J Lo's brother

[@jimmarshall5453]

Perhaps the funniest poker hand I have seen this year.

[@joshp7762]

Wow Polk you sent Matt spinning so hard on tilt from these videos that he lost 400k tonight on poker after dark.

[@pyronetic9613]

How long did it take you to make this video. The comedy content is improving which is great to watch.

[@carlwinslo]

Is that SoFloAntonio in the gray Underarmour hoodie? LMAO!

[@toby1conoby1]

I'm pretty sure it is my dude

[@tomcarlyle1740]

Hahahah doug you have given me the funniest poker moment of my life at 13.40 hahah cheers for the laugh mate

[@DrSayre]

I want to see Doug and Berkey go heads up at King of the Hill IV!

[@myst93]

Both a couple of fucking donks.

[@vincentolmos2263]

Dammit Bobbeh

[@ShortOffPoker]

Looked this up after hearing you talk about it on your podcast with Garrett. Did not disappoint. Love the content man! The ending was class!

[@paulhiggins140]

Berkey's KZbin channel (Solve For Why) is the most awkward thing in the universe

[@culu37]

paul higgins so weird lmao

[@secondstring]

Worst move I've seen by a pro! You're a madman Doug, nice job, love your videos, watched the whole $270k video, picked up a lot of good tournament tips, really appreciate you posting these vids man.

[@dirt_reborn]

4:44 he even confused himself with that bs

[@c_darwin927]

Lmfao stand up and say holy shit that’s a full house but not matts bk yard 😂😂😂

[@jeffreymiller6116]

Lmao DP 🤣 ... Even a blind squirrel finds a nut nut once in a while 😎👌

[@jarvisstewart]

Hey man, nice backyard. This was a good video of a well played hand. I probably would have shoved when the 9 hit the river, but credit to you for getting him to call.

[@yuboguo9249]

Can't stop laughing when he comes to the part "holy s*it that's a full house" lolllll

[@garymcglothlinjr4851]

Your videos and comments crack me up! Well played!

[@jeffdridge2010]

Matt had Doug pegged the whole time, and he got an extremely gross runout is what I’m getting from this video.

[@jfish8286]

Exactly. Desperate play in a hand he never should have been involved in. 10 min of worthless over speculation and smuggy millenial cockiness

[@timothykyllonen9628]

Yeah except for all the guys on Doug s 🥜 Lol. It’s a nice breakdown, but 92 times out a hundred it’s a punt on the river …. Soooooo

[@RFConspiracy223]

Hey Doug, when you bet 1,5 pot on the turn you should have 5/7 value and 2/7 bluffs, correct? That being said, the value hands are Ah7h, 7h7s, 9h7h, 9s7s, 6s7s, 6h7h, 7h8h and 7s8s for a total of 8 hands, and you say you would have 4 or 5 combos that you would want to bluff with, shouldn't a balanced range have only 3 bluffs? Does position matter when constructing your ranges/sizes? Does the fact of still having a betting round on the river changes de combos from 3 to 4 or 5? Anyways, nice hand and great video

[@WayneChiangPoker]

Teach me how to dougie. Please.

[@fugbabylon7229]

You can learn yourself just watch Poker

[@feelyoung79]

c b thats funny I was thinking the same thing..

[@robertingham3525]

be rich and just fire with runner runner draws.... lol

[@Stefanburakov]

I teach you for free. full table I am better the Doug and the rest of that table. I am in Brazil playing right now but I will help you over skype. Email me att [e-mail] I am Swedish by the way. I think I saw you in Macau.

[@vincentolmos2263]

Torbjörn Becker sounds legit

[@JerryCurl34]

Its the greatest how you roast. I was cracking up.. nice pot!

[@damedley75]

Doug always has a 7 here. Just fold the flop, fish! 😂

[@damedley75]

I'm just going to save people the trouble and explain: I'm mocking the "he always/never has it" people.

[@axlef1513]

Just noticed what that cats shirt says. "Don't quite your day job." Awesomely appropriate.

[@piettefrank]

Doug. You sucked out plain and simple, That’s all. Regardless of all the summary report... he had you in real bad shape dumping your cash and you hit miracle runner runner. It happens. Next.

[@jasonbourneistreadstone]

I only wish this was Garrett instead of Berkey.. That bitcoin donkey.

[@Joel-js2gk]

Of course he got lucky here. That's not the point of these videos. The point is to discuss what lines to take with what hands on which runouts. If Berkey had AJ and the river came a 3 Doug would've likely succeeded in getting Berkey to fold.

[@mrcruel2121]

to his defense doug stated that berkey probably wouldnt fold any river so he s tellin us that most likely the bluff wouldn t go through so its not like he s talkin krap to justifie the play.but that was a nice plot twist.didn t expect that river.you re a lucky man

[@joemac999]

How to play a hand as bad as you can and get dead lucky....then rationalize it somehow

[@carpediem26333]

What a cool hand! Well played! Is the video from this lineup available somewhere, or just on liveatthebike's homepage?

[@mattyglen87]

7:02 Doug looked very unhappy that Berkey called, a tell?

[@stevenstone-t2q]

Berkey looks like one of the dudes from that old SNL skit "Were going to pump you up " .

[@LebronCCP]

lmao, last 2 minutes were GOLD

[@adam551982]

HOLY SHIT THAT'S A FULL HOUSE! I was laughing so hard, had to send this to my friends. Gotta love some Doug Polk Poker!

[@RGatt-rb7xq]

@17:33 I lost my shit. Perfect!!

[@MJ-iq9hv]

it's so interesting to watch the lines dougie and fee take on live at the bike. it's awesome. win or lose those two are always smiling. and that is the ultimate chi, to handle losing or getting picked off the way they do. f-ing stud muffins.

[@nwood041]

All these people being given free analysis by one of the demonstrably best players in the world and saying it's terrible. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink i guess.

[@tuwalee7406]

Lol drink this water all you want. People who knows poker knows better. A novice poker player knows better. The odds are horrible.

[@smokinjoe4709]

@@tuwalee7406 lol, Doug has won over $9,000,000 playing poker. What's your stats?

[@pokersnob730]

“Backyard”? That my friend should be a “Back Patio”....🤣 🍻

[@justinneilsonn2665]

"And this is where things get pretty interesting" Dougs favorite saying

[@jasonhounsell3297]

Against this size, your opponent can fold happily. “Now I know I don’t have much here….” 😂😂 GG Doug

[@nicholascotrupi8165]

Man, that's just mean spirited at the end. What do you have against Matt? He handled that a lot better than I would've. He chickens out of one live game, and now he's a public enemy or something. Seems harsh man. Is this sober-rage doug?

[@enricopallazzo3244]

Nicholas Cotrupi Just a little b bustin, no reason to get all preachy.

[@therealrick1661]

Grow up cry baby

[@vlada995]

Hey Doug, by deciding to raise the flop with 89s 86s 96s as bluffs and 7x as value bets, doesn't that make your hand have way small coverage there, he is basically safe on any A,2,3,4,K,Q,J,T turn. You cover some of them with the backdoor flush draw, but that doesn't really seem like much. Thanks in advance!

[@BKleinProductions]

“Small size like 3/4 pot” hahahaha what an awesome analysis.

[@agentzero4281]

good passion level/really high content. feud with berkey is best drama in the game atm, and i'm sure he loves it too.

[@jhonjohnjonjondoe5011]

lol he says berkey isn't known for folding yet he is following up with bluffs. lol the irony

[@RonniesPokerRants]

Irony? It's called stupidty.

[@danielmoctezuma3799]

You talked about your sizing being different because the two pair on the board. You overbet the turn, but if you didn’t hit the 9 on the river, are you using the same size? I’d assume you’d also go for the overbet or shove?

[@dnetzer76]

Love the calculated play by play commentary on a miracle run-out as if there's any value to understanding what on earth polk was thinking during his melt-down.

[@OlaRozenfeld]

Thank you Doug, please keep doing these awesome, insightful analysis videos! Judging by the comments, it's funny how many people don't seem to understand that you should have a bluff range if you're ever going to raise that flop. I suspect you need to make a video where you go over the basics of GTO -- balanced vs. exploitative play in general, and the assumptions that form the basis of your strategy. Thanks again, in my last session I actually had a funny spot where I remembered your lessons and c-bet small on a dry flop, which helped me take down a rather big pot, because both my opponents were very confused by my sizing!

[@sylvainslater7496]

The funniest thing I see here is people saying that Berkey should have 3betted the flop or the turn to know where he was that just cracks me up how clueless people are and are making fun of Doug balance play just cause they see the hands

[@jamesday7467]

I had no idea Berkey had talked shit about that disgustingly great PAD line-up. Trying to claim he's the best live player out of those sharks is like Rebel Wilson saying backstage at a Victoria's Secret show "...but do I think I'm better looking than all of these girls live? *awkwardly look to your left* Fuck yes!" Berkey is so obviously the biggest spot at that table. He's kidding himself if he thinks otherwise.

[@8BitAvenger]

It's pretty incredible to me how many people support your work by watching and then comment how horrible it is. Keep it up, Doug. I appreciate it.

[@desmondprendergast5774]

To recap the donkey caught a one outer and was paid.

[@niallhiggins2342]

Your comment proves you know nothing about poker strategy

[@nalanwaters3365]

Love the Doug Polk - Berkey feud. It's amazing.

[@stuungar3190]

As the asian dealer says ~ ni han ~ ni han

[@luchacefox259]

This comment cracked me up I had to take a few deep breffs.

[@robertritchey1210]

Lmao! 😆

[@robertritchey1210]

Lmao! 😆

[@zamanski7094]

These never get old!!

[@patrickmorris2408]

When do they "fight?"

[@parachuting2323]

Doug, it’s been a while since there was a giveaway.....I’m thinking “Interesting angle shoot video submissions”. I think you’ll get some of the obvious, but I also think you’d get a lot of fun, creative angles that would give viewers a chance to act out and submit some plays they may have have thought of but obviously can’t act out at the table.

[@kylebroussard5952]

Honestly though, props to this guy for losing $50k to some 1/2 level play and not even flinching. That's some pro level shit right there.

[@mehaha1]

Hey Doug, great hand here. Question, if the river bricks do you still barrel here after Berkey's call on the flop and turn? If so, how much? Learning a lot from your content. Thanks

[@kristalmacleod3004]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO'

[@datemike7706]

17:42 @DougPolkPoker: PLEASE EXPLAIN THAT BEER CAN! Best regards,

[@DougPolkPoker]

its a La Croix can

[@mydogsbestfren7490]

Doug Polk Poker martinelli's bro.. that la croix is french for the crap

[@codyviera92]

I thought he failed the challenge as well and then accidentally put it in his video lol

[@rafspoint]

My boy does it again... I love your psychology. I agree, if you have to show you donk that hand, make them pay you a stiff ticket. Its a high risk strategy with high yields

[@chrispythegull]

My god. This was the longest rationalization for playing a poor hand poorly that I've ever heard in my life. Sorry, only video of Doug's I had to dislike.

[@pabuttle]

chrispythegull so what hands should he bluff raise on the flop then?

[@KevinsKontentKorner]

why does he have to bluff raise any?

[@MasterLJ]

Because that's the entire point of Game Theory Optimal play. You need bluffs, calls, raising range, for each situation to be playing a balanced game. It doesn't mean 1/3 bluff, 1/3 call, 1/3 raise, it's balanced in proportion to the odds you give your opponent. Always showing up with a 7 in this spot is far from optimal, so he chooses 4-5 combos as bluffs, and out of the possible combos 8s9s was one of them. I only disagree with the river bet size. I don't think this is your typical double paired board, Berkey literally has no 9's, and you should rarely have 9's -- and had he bricked the river his bluff would have been a 1.7 x pot bet shove, so I think it needs to be the same for value. This isn't a long winded justification of bad play, this is a window into how to play Game Theory Optimal, and the choices you have to make. It's the only type of play you can openly share, because if you are playing a balanced game it doesn't matter what people know about your strategy. That's why you need bluffs on an A77r flop.

[@irascib1e]

@@MasterLJ He bet smaller on the river because it made it a double paired board, which makes it very dry. He didn't bet the river small because he hit his card. Doug's not dumb enough to be that unbalanced. I think Doug made a great play here and it's what makes him one of the best HU players in the world

[@smokinjoe4709]

@@KevinsKontentKorner to not be exploitable. If you only raise when you hit the flop I will just fold every time you raise. You would have to show me that you are capable of bluffing if you ever want me to call your raise... poker 101 - Give action to get action.

[@deanalbertson7203]

Doug gets lucky on the river and talks a lot of smack. (Quick summary.)

[@niallhiggins2342]

You don’t understand good poker strategy?

[@hammondOT]

@@niallhiggins2342 That's not good poker strategy lol.

[@king216OH]

What a gem

[@Arcgymnastics]

Great content until the last 60s. Smack talking a player who quite clearly out played you in the hand but got unlucky.

[@peterfleming6248]

This comment

[@SchnackfattLP]

Yeah - Berkey totally outplayed Doug by happening to have one of the very few hands that can stand a river barrel. That is not outplaying somebody, it’s called getting lucky. Doug got lucky, too - that’s part of the game. Are you saying Doug should not raise the flop with his holding? Well - with what hands do you bluff-raise the flop then? It’s a fact that Doug has THE best bluffing hand he can have, it’s a MUST bluff if you want to raise any hands on the flop.

[@ofusowre7620]

Schnackfatt A must bluff is a bit too much. Polk could ofc fold the hand when he saw the flop. It s nor like he would loose much. It s a ton of flops which would be better to bluff at. In fact to raise this flop is very risky. The flop is 77A. And you put your opponent on an Ace or worst case a 7. It s hard to fold an Ace, which is the most likely holding so at least you would have to expect a call. And you probably have to bluff the turn and river as well. Even if you do it s a chance your opponent will call you down with A/J, Ace/Q and A/K. Which are reasonable holdings considering the preflop action. The goal of a bluff is to make your opponent fold right? Why bluff when it s a good chance your opponent will call. And he did call right? It s possible to fold a weaker Ace yes, but this play is actually not that good in my opinon. Only if you play vs a very tight player or someone playing with scared money. In most cases you will loose a lot of money and Polk was lucky.

[@SchnackfattLP]

Ove Tang It’s a must bluff because it’s objectively your BEST bluffing hand. If you don’t want to bluff with your best bluffing hand, you are never ever bluffing. Simple as that. While you are correct that our opponent is rarely folding the flop, that isn’t really our goal on the flop. We are already planning to barrel turn and river as well on certain runouts. Yes, it sucks when the opponent calls your overbet on the turn but you simply have to bluff most rivers at this point. If you don’t follow through on the river, you are never bluffing. That is a bad strategy. Why? If you want to value-bet the river with ANY hand, you simply have to put bluffs in your range. Typically, you start with your best bluffing hands and add as many as you need math-wise (I’m terrible at that). Since we have the best bluffing hand possible we have no decision to make in that regard. We simply HAVE to bluff. Also: If you expect your opponent to call down with any Ax in his range, on these stakes, for a $100k pot, you are out of your mind. That is never happening. Berkey just got lucky that he had one of his best Ax so he was able to stand the turn and river barrel. Yes, he got unlucky in the end but that doesn’t matter because equity-wise Berkey won 95% of the pot (if we look at the pot growing from the turn).

[@Lumerlume11]

Did you literally just type "Berkey got lucky to have AK" lmao.

[@er.8884]

Wow I have to say this is the greatest poker vid of all time. Well done Doug! I am however 2 edibles deep and high AF but we will see when i'm sober. - Erik

[@shanemack390]

Omg. I walked away for 20 min and hes still talking about the turn. Doug lay off the adderall

[@Chuyennguyen454]

Like your video. I wonder what would you do if you don't hit the 9 on the river? Same bet or all in?

[@chevelle1]

Should’ve folded to his flop bet. You were all but drawing dead. Flopping only backdoor draws when you know your opponent has a made hand should tell you to fold and find another spot. If the goal was to represent a 7, then raising on the flop was a terrible idea. I think you played this hand worse than a newbie 1/2 cash game player. The far fetched justifications of blockers and so forth is gibberish.

[@JB-ne1by]

Found the 5NL reg

[@drewberry8945]

WP doug but do you jam all river or just 6, Jack or clubs.

[@rambojohnj.6117]

You went from 0 on the flop to lucky hero by the river, and you rub the guy's face in it? I'm actually a bit suprised at your lack of humbleness.

[@peterschiff4236]

A complete fish

[@michaelb4334]

rofl! "sometimes u gotta stand up and say Holly shit, thats a fh" omg this channel is pure gold!! give this guy an award! POLK POLK POLK!!! :D

[@brianthomas8835]

Doug saying long winded as if he never is... most videos are 3min of actual video and 15min of long wind 🤣

[@ManOfAKind]

Slow roll would have been sweet

[@videogameschool101]

secretagentman23 this

[@giancarlodisalvo1784]

Decent chance Matt knew you would interpret his flop bet exactly as you did and randomly try rep trips

[@tmitchell6552]

Taking the piss out of the opponent when u run that good really lacks class....nice one Doug

[@mrkoolio4475]

Oh please….everybody runs smack….as did the other gent previously

[@Camcolito]

'Most hands miss on paired flops, and if your opponent doesn't have anything they are going to have to let go of most of their hands'. Bets > 1/2 pot, gets raised by 9-high.