Doug Polk Rallying in What Has Become a $0 Poker Bankroll Challenge
Doug Polk's goal of winning $100,000 in a month playing online poker is out the window, but after a recent string of winning sessions, his new $0-in-a-month challenge is within striking distance.
The Upswing Poker founder is single-tabling on ClubWPT Gold due to multi-tabling being unavailable on the new sweeps coin poker site. He fell far off the pace of reaching his six-figure goal quickly, and dropped deep into the red halfway through the challenge, mostly playing mid-stakes heads-up cash games.
Polk's "Code Doug" challenge is now about getting back to even before hitting the 30-day mark later this week. Should he accomplish that goal, he won't have to shave his head, and he won't lose money (except for the $100,000 he's giving out to those who use promo code "Code Doug" on ClubWPT Gold).
Where the Poker Bankroll Challenge Stands
Polk's graph the first half of the challenge resembled that of the Luke Schwartz online poker graph he's long mocked in his YouTube videos. He was down over $48,000 following a March 21 session.
But the bad run has, at least for the time being, has disappeared. Polk booked nearly a $10,000 profit on March 22, the start of a comeback for the co-owner of The Lodge Card Club in Texas.
Polk, who has been streaming the entirety of his bankroll challenge, posted yet another profitable session on Sunday, bringing his net loss down to just $11,069, the closest he's been to even since March 14, less than two weeks into what was originally a $100,000 bankroll challenge.
The heads-up no-limit hold'em legend only streamed for about three hours on Sunday before calling it quits, one of his shortest sessions. He started the session playing a $5/$10/$20 full ring no-limit hold'em cash game, winning only $200 in about 45 minutes before moving on to a $10/$20 heads-up table against "HandpanBoyBand."
Polk struggled to accumulate chips early in the match. He turned the nuts with KxQx on a 9xJx4x10x board only to lose a $5,600 pot to AxQx when the Kx hit on the river. But he'd soon get most of those chips back with a missed flush draw and jack-high, successfully bluffing his opponent off the pot that had over $5,300 in it heading to the river.
Polk would then run into a cooler with bottom two pair against top two pair, giving "HandpanBoyBand" a full double up. But the match went mostly in "Code Doug's" favor the rest of the way, and it ended with the challenger getting his stack all in preflop with KxQx against Polk's AxKx, and the best hand held up.
Polk will be back in action on YouTube and Twitch on Monday.
