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Re: The Poker Thread II
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 9:09 am
by Drumstick
RIP Darvin. You gave us the most exciting Main Event ever of recent times.
Re: The Poker Thread II
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2020 9:49 am
by Clarkman
Any of you guys been watching the Doug vs Daniel HU4Grudge match? I've watched most the sessions so far and it's some of my favourite entertainment this year. Learning so much about HUNLHE. Very much in Doug's corner also so that has made it more enjoyable.
Re: The Poker Thread II
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2020 9:54 am
by Drumstick
I don't think I knew it was even a thing tbh. Kind of fallen off the poker radar since all the live events have been cancelled due to COVID and the ability to play live myself is also off limited for the same reason.
Is DNegs still all "rake is good"?
Re: The Poker Thread II
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2020 10:33 am
by DML
I've been watching and enjoying it. Gotta say I'm more in the DNegs camp, Polk is basically just a troll who loses all confidence when in the same room as Negreanu and I'd like to see him lose, and the assumption that young players are instantly better become null and void, but that doesn't look like its going to happen!
Re: The Poker Thread II
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2020 10:48 am
by Clarkman
Drumstick wrote:I don't think I knew it was even a thing tbh. Kind of fallen off the poker radar since all the live events have been cancelled due to COVID and the ability to play live myself is also off limited for the same reason.
Is DNegs still all "rake is good"?
He's schilling for GG Poker instead of Stars currently. He's never reneged on his comments about more rake being better for the poker economy.
Re: The Poker Thread II
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2020 10:56 am
by Drumstick
Questions: Is it online or live? Do we get to see hands before they turn them over, i.e. hole cameras? Where can I watch it?
Questions unrelated: Did Stars drop DNegs, or did he leave, or was it a mutual separation kind of thing?
Literally never heard of GG Poker.
Re: The Poker Thread II
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:23 am
by Clarkman
Drumstick wrote:Questions: Is it online or live? Do we get to see hands before they turn them over, i.e. hole cameras? Where can I watch it?
Questions unrelated: Did Stars drop DNegs, or did he leave, or was it a mutual separation kind of thing?
Literally never heard of GG Poker.
First session was live, has been online since. No hole cards, but excellent rotating commentary on Upswing's channel:
https://www.twitch.tv/upswingpokerDoug currently up $674k over 7921 hands out of either 12.5k or 25k hands.
Also being streamed on YouTube and GG Poker's Twitch channel.
Mutual separation, I believe.
Re: The Poker Thread II
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:24 am
by Drumstick
Cheers mate!
Re: The Poker Thread II
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:57 am
by Mini E
Afternoon lads.
Yeah - i've watched every session. Four or five live, and the rest after the fact.
GG Poker and DougPolkPoker are streaming it (Doug's actually done one session commentating himself and showing some cards). The best stream is currently Joey Ingram's by an absolute mile.
GG Poker started well with Kevin Martin and Kaki Tee, but their commentators now are pretty awful - There's a guy 'Hanks' who is just... I can't listen to a word he says. They've had Amanda Negreanu on for a few too. I find her fairly intolerable (much like Daniel), but there was huge satisfaction watching her slowly rage more and more in the session that Polk took him for ~$200k.
Doug Polk's channel has had a mixture of Ryan Fee (aka personality vaccuum), Shaun Deeb (a huge twat), and a couple of average other options (Jamie Kerstetter is bearable).
Joey's combination of incredible graphical overlays, fireballs, car crashes, and singing/dancing is spectacular and utterly GTO.
They're tending to stream Mon, Weds and Fri nights at 10:30pm GMT, but some Thursdays being thrown in too. Streams minimum two hours.
It's been a good watch.
Re: The Poker Thread II
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2020 12:12 am
by Mini E
Possibly my favourite four minutes of online poker
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Yesterday, DNegs absolutely went off on an expletive fuelled rant about running bad/running so much below EV, Doug hitting hands at the right time.
twitter.com/dklappin/status/1336867043027668993
24 hours later:
Has AhQx on QQxxx (three hearts) with the nut flush blocker and flopped trips. Polk has KThh
- Negreanu gets stacked and insta-sit-outs for a few minutes. He comes back and gets dealt AA which he runs into Polk's KK. Polk flops the king
. Negreanu is kicking puppies right now.
twitter.com/Joeingram1/status/1337184865087733760