Douglas K Polk was born on December 16,1988 and is an American professional poker player.
20 Facts About Doug Polk
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Doug Polk was born in Pasadena, California, and has loved strategy games ever since he was five, when his father taught him chess.
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Doug Polk's family moved from California to Raleigh, North Carolina, during his childhood.
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At the age of 15, Doug Polk was a competitive Warcraft 3 electronic sports player competing at multiple World Cyber Games tournaments under the name T-Rider before transitioning to poker in college.
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Doug Polk attended the University of North Carolina Wilmington, but dropped out before graduating to pursue poker full-time.
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In 2011, Doug Polk was nearly broke and decided to fully focus on the game.
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Doug Polk played fellow professional poker player Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky in a highly publicized match of 15,000 hands.
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Doug Polk walked away a $740,000 winner and received an additional $100,000 bonus for winning.
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In mid-2015, Doug Polk started the poker training site Upswing Poker with longtime friend and fellow poker professional Ryan Fee.
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The human players ended up defeating Claudico for 732,713 chips, with Doug Polk beating the bot for 213,000.
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Doug Polk was involved in an argument with fellow poker player Ben Tollerene over a coaching deal.
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In June 2017, Doug Polk won the WSOP One Drop High Roller tournament, outlasting 130 players.
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On March 16,2020, Doug Polk uploaded a video saying he doesn't like the game anymore and is formally quitting the poker industry after retiring from play in late 2018.
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In July 2020, Doug Polk challenged Daniel Negreanu to a high-stakes heads-up no-limit hold'em match, and Negreanu accepted.
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Doug Polk subsequently came out of retirement to practice for the match, and played on HUNL on WSOP.
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The duel ended on February 4,2021, with Doug Polk winning approximately $1,200,000 over 25,000 hands.
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Doug Polk won an additional $530,000 in public side bets, with speculation that there were many more private ones.
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In 2021, Doug Polk moved to Austin, Texas and has been playing live poker locally.
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Doug Polk has made appearances on Texas Card House Live in Austin and The Lodge Live Stream in Round Rock.
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In January 2022, Doug Polk became co-owner of The Lodge Card Club.