Doug Polk

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Doug Polk
Doug Polk (2017)
Doug Polk (2017)
  Personal information  
Date of birth December 16, 1988
place of birth United StatesUnited States Pasadena
Nicknames
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WCG | RiderPokerStars

WCGRiderFull Tilt Poker
place of residence United StatesUnited States Las Vegas
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money $ 3,686,865
Total prize money $ 9,454,008
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 3
Cashes 12
Best main event 592nd ( 2011 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 1
Last updated: June 18, 2020

Douglas Kevin "Doug" Polk (born December 16, 1988 in Pasadena , California ) is a professional American poker player . He is a three-time bracelet winner of the World Series of Poker (WSOP). His greatest achievement so far was winning the High Roller for One Drop at the 2017 WSOP .

Personal

Polk learned chess when he was five . At the age of 15 he discovered the real-time strategy game Warcraft III and took part in the World Cyber ​​Games several times . After graduating from high school, Polk attended the University of North Carolina at Wilmington , but dropped out after a year. Polk lives in Las Vegas .

Poker career

Career

Polk began playing small limits cash games on the online platform PokerStars in 2007 under the nickname WCG | Rider . He slowly worked his way up and made initial 20 more than 10,000 US dollars . He has now made more than $ 500,000 in profit from cash games and is considered one of the best heads-up players in the world. Since 2011, Polk has also been participating in renowned live tournaments .

Polk first won the World Series of Poker at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas in July 2011 , finishing 592nd in the Main Event . He cashed again at the 2012 WSOP and finished 15th in the Heads-Up Championship . In February 2014, Polk made the final table of the A $ 100,000 Challenge at the Aussie Millions Poker Championship in Melbourne, finishing the tournament in fourth place for A $ 860,000 in prize money. In June 2014 he won a turbo tournament of the No Limit Hold'em variant at the World Series of Poker and received his first bracelet and a prize of around 250,000 US dollars. In early July 2014, Polk won a super high roller tournament at the Hotel Bellagio in Las Vegas, which earned him his highest prize money to date of more than 1.5 million US dollars. In February 2015 took Polk in the A $ 250,000 Challenge the Aussie Millions third place for Australian over a million dollars. At the 2015 WSOP , he reached the final table of the No Limit Hold'em Six Handed Championship, finishing in second place behind Byron Kaverman for over $ 400,000 in prize money. A year later, Polk and Ryan Fee won the newly staged tag team event of the WSOP, securing his second bracelet and shared prize money of over 150,000 US dollars. At the 2017 WSOP , Polk won the High Roller for One Drop with a buy-in of $ 111,111. For this he prevailed against 129 other players and received his third bracelet as well as his highest prize to date of over 3.5 million US dollars. In September 2017, Polk made the money in two Poker Masters tournaments at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, earning more than $ 600,000 in prize money. Since then, it has not had another live cash placement to date.

In total, Polk has earned almost $ 9.5 million in poker in live tournaments . He has been running a YouTube channel since June 2016 , which has almost 300,000 subscribers.

Bracelet overview

Polk cashed twelve times at the WSOP and won three bracelets :

year Buy-in (in $ ) competition Attendees Prize money (in $)
2014 00.1000 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo 1473 0.251,969
2016 00.1000 Tag team no-limit hold'em 0863 0.
153.358shared with Ryan Fee
2017 111.111 High Roller for One Drop 0130 3,686,865

Prize money overview

year Prize money (in $ ) Tournament victories
2011 0.024,070 -
2012 0.020,674 -
2013 0.000.000 -
2014 3,625,737 2
2015 1,252,988 -
2016 0.231,299 1
2017 4,299,240 1
total 9,454,008 4th

Web links

Commons : Doug Polk  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polk, Doug on astro.com, accessed March 7, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Joy Ride: Doug "WCGRider" Polk's Road to the Nosebleeds on pokernews.com from March 6, 2014, accessed on March 7, 2017 (English).
  3. ↑ WCG | Rider on Pokerstars on highstakesdb.com, accessed on March 7, 2017 (English).
  4. ↑ WCGRider on Full Tilt Poker at highstakesdb.com, accessed January 5, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b c Doug Polk in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 7, 2017.
  6. ↑ 42nd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2011 ($ 10,000 World Championship - No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 7, 2017.
  7. ↑ 43rd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2012 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em - Heads-Up (Event # 12)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 7, 2017 (English).
  8. ↑ 2014 Aussie Millions Poker Championship (A $ 100,000 No Limit Hold'em - $ 100,000 Challenge) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 7, 2017.
  9. ↑ 45th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2014 ($ 1,000 No Limit Hold'em - Turbo (Event # 23)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 7, 2017 (English).
  10. ↑ Super High Roller II ($ 100,000 No Limit Hold'em Super High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 7, 2017.
  11. ↑ 2015 Aussie Millions Poker Championship (A $ 245,000 + 5,000 # 21 The LK Boutique Challenge) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 7, 2017.
  12. ↑ 46th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2015 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em Six Handed Championship (Event # 37)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 7, 2017.
  13. ↑ 47th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2016 ($ 1,000 No Limit Hold'em Tag Team (2-4 person teams) (Event # 61)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 7, 2017 (English).
  14. ↑ 48th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2017 ($ 111,111 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller for One Drop (Event # 6)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 6, 2017.
  15. ↑ 2017 Poker Masters ($ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em - Event # 3) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 5, 2019.
  16. ↑ Poker Masters ($ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em - Event # 4) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 5, 2019.
  17. ↑ Doug Polk Poker on YouTube , accessed June 18, 2020.
  18. ↑ Doug Polk in the World Series of Poker database, accessed March 7, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Polk, Doug
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Polk, Douglas Kevin (full name); WCGRider (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poker player
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Pasadena , California , United States