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Today I'm joined by Martin Zamani to cover some truly insane allegations about Bryn Kenney. This story has it all: ghosting, collusion, cheating, RTA, warlords, shamans, frog poison, acid, smuggling, and much more!

0:00 Intro
2:13 Martin joins, Meeting Bryn and getting staked
9:30 Horse collusion, Bryn could see Martins screen?
20:00 RTA Bans, The HE22 account, Lauren Roberts
28:51 Ghosting, Mark Herm
34:49 The Shaman, Frog poison rituals
47:52 Multi-accounting, GG's Agent program
53:50 The Psychic, Cult lifestyle
1:02:57 More Bryn stories
1:10:42 The rake pyramid
1:17:30 Summary

Dan Bilzerian joins Doug Polk to discuss his poker past, playing in high stakes private games, the source of his fortune, and more.

0:00 Intro
1:16 Dan joins, offering to bet $1 million
18:04 Dan's receipts
23:45 Dan teaches Doug how to make money in poker
29:40 Dan's online poker history
37:32 Where did Dan's money come from?
44:00 Is Dan a Poker Pioneer?
51:20 Winning $186k in 3 weeks at 10/20
56:00 Fan Questions
1:11:09 Is Dan playing a character?
1:25:33 Dan's biggest regret, Future goals, Vegas shooting
1:36:27 Debating: Money vs Skill, Are Doug's videos truthful/fair?
2:13:01 Heads-up challenge, Bragging
2:19:33 Outro

Long-time poker pro and CardRunners founder Taylor Caby joins Doug Polk to talk about playing poker in the boom years, starting the first major poker training site, and more. 

0:00 Intro
1:14 Taylor joins, CardRunners/Upswing
12:26 Online poker in 2003
20:44 Online poker today
34:07 Quitting poker, Starting DraftDay, DFS talk
44:23 Establish The Run
51:00 Are training sites ruining the games?
56:40 Building niche communities
1:04:17 Doug gets into self tanners
1:13:03 CryptoPunks
1:25:22 Crypto market, Poker players in Crypto
1:35:07 The similarities of Doug and Taylor
1:45:12 Outro

This and all other episodes of the Doug Polk Podcast are available on Spotify, Apple, Google, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. Check https://upswingpoker.com/podcast/ for direct links.

Main Event runner-up David Williams joins Doug Polk to get you up-to-speed on the 2021 WSOP so far. Topics include a Rio hotel room robbery, notable winners and more.

0:00 Intro
0:54 David joins
5:40 What has the WSOP been like so far?
17:31 The Phil Hellmuth blowup
31:30 Robberies at the Rio
45:35 The Ladies event, Importance of role models
1:04:05 Kelly Minkin re-registration issue
1:18:10 Legends passing away, Aging
1:26:13 Outro

Poker pro Bart Hanson joins Doug Polk to talk about the wild Texas poker scene, the 2021 WSOP, and betting huge on the 2020 elections.

0:00 Intro
1:04 Bart joins, The housing market
8:46 Moving out of California, pros and cons
16:40 Poker in Texas
21:54 Should Doug start a poker room
29:41 San Antonio, Does Bart still play?
33:56 Banning the Europeans?!, Game protection
43:23 WSOP 2021, Mark-up Police
49:44 Difficulty of playing live MTT's for a living
54:46 WSOP's problems with Covid
1:05:33 Bart's WSOP stories
1:10:23 Making content on YouTube
1:24:51 Mike Postle, The exhausting amount of scams
1:41:00 Bart's election bets
1:48:10 Outro

This and all other episodes of the Doug Polk Podcast are also available on Spotify, Apple, Google or wherever you get your podcasts. Check https://upswingpoker.com/podcast/ for direct links.

Former poker pro and early cryptocurrency adopter Bryan Pellegrino (aka PrimordialAA) joins Doug Polk to talk about NFTs, artificial intelligence in poker, and his new project Layer Zero. The first 1 hour and 2 minutes is all about crypto, the last 39 minutes is poker related stuff.

0:00 Intro
0:44 Bryan joins
2:20 Layer Zero
17:42 Oracles, Chainlink
26:55 When will Layer Zero launch
31:55 NFT's
41:20 Investing in to the crypto market today
47:46 Avalance, Polygon
55:24 ETH Gas price, Solana
1:02:09 The Doug vs DNegs challenge
1:08:08 Bryans poker career
1:14:15 AI in poker
1:24:00 Should online players be afraid of AI?
1:37:31 Bryans future schedule (WSOP?)

This and all other episodes of the Doug Polk Podcast are also available on Spotify, Apple, Google or wherever you get your podcasts. Check https://upswingpoker.com/podcast/ for direct links.