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Doug Polk is joined by the player at the center of a massive controversy. Martin Kabrhel, who has been accused by several high stakes poker players of potentially cheating in the World Series of Poker $250,000 event, is here to give his side of the story. 

Martin Kabrhel can be reached via email at martin.kabrhel@ematiq.com or on Twitter at @martinkabrhell 

0:00 Martin joins 
4:00 Has Martin ever cheated or been banned? 
7:37 Card pressing 
15:32 Standing up mid hand 
20:21 Not coloring up, Sticky fingers 
23:24 The rail, Martins play day 2 vs 3 
26:49 The AT vs KQ hand 
30:52 Giving the impression of cheating 
42:18 Playing $300 and $250k tournaments 
45:16 The Robl tweet 
49:40 Playing high rollers in the future, Rudeness 
57:45 The lawsuit 
1:02:21 Outro 

I just had a very long, very tough conversation with Daniel Negreanu, Phil Galfond, Matt Berkey, Joe Ingram, Will Jaffe, Eric Froelich, and Fernando Habegger (Jnandez). There's been a lot of poker drama and controversies. Let's get into it.

0:00 - Joe Ingram joins 
26:24 - Will Jaffe joins 
55:23 - Eric Froehlic joins 
1:12:20 - Daniel Negreanu joins 
1:56:06 - Shaun Deeb joins 
2:08:30 - Andrew Lichtenberger (LuckyChewy) joins 
2:19:37 - Matt Berkey joins 
2:56:55 - Fernando Habegger (JNandez) joins 
3:43:43 - Kane Kalas joins 
4:04:45 - Phil Galfond joins

Today I'm joined by Ryan Feldman and Nick Vertucci from Hustler Casino Live to bring us a huge update about their upcoming Million Dollar Cash Game. This will be one of the biggest No Limit Hold'em poker streams of all time, if not the very biggest.

Save your spot in the upcoming tournament course on Upswing Poker here: https://upswingpoker.com/road-to-victory-pre-reg 

0:00 Intro 
1:22 The $1M Buy-in game 
14:10 Players announced so far 
14:54 Stanley Tang, JR, Double M 
21:03 Blank Check Ben, Erik Persson, Brandon Steven 
27:42 Charles, Rampage, Rob Yong, Mikki 
46:19 Announcing new names 
53:30 THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT 
1:00:30 What makes a good stream? 
1:13:53 Tracking Poker website 
1:17:40 Berkey vs Airball match 
1:26:44 Ryan's Robbi slip up 
1:37:10 Outro

Garrett Adelstein joins Doug Polk to discuss everything from the Jack-Four hand to Nik Airball's recent comments

There's a bitter feud within the Hustler Casino Live community playing out over Twitter. Nik Airball and other players have had some not so positive things to say about former HCL regular Garrett Adelstein. Nik Airball joins Doug Polk to flesh out his perspective. 

0:00 Intro 
2:22 Nik Airball joins 
2:58 Garrett being "banned" 
13:27 Garrett's game selection 
20:16 Garrett's player rating system 
26:55 Garrett's tweets 
34:54 Nik's heads-up challenge 
39:00 The Robbi incident 
43:58 Garrett + LATB? 
46:13 Mariano, How to play on streamed games 
1:00:03 Why off-stream games play bigger 
1:04:57 More on the Robbi incident 
1:17:26 Will Garrett ever play on HCL again? 
1:24:35 Doug rants about Nik vs Matt Berkey match 
1:27:20 Outro (Upswing Promo)

The man who beat Phil Hellmuth at his own game, Eric Persson, joins Doug Polk to discuss Eric's infamous match vs the Poker Brat, speech play on High Stakes Poker, and playing in big private games.

0:00 Intro
1:33 Eric joins
3:18 Phil Hellmuth and the HU match
19:40 The hand vs Garrett
27:30 Playing on live streams
36:40 Speech play
44:24 High Stakes Poker
49:29 Private games, How to get in?
1:05:59 Managing casinos/cardrooms, More on private games
1:23:07 Outro