Doug Polk is a 29 year old former professional poker player from the United States. His alias was WCGRider and he was specialized in heads-up No Limit hold’em. He is now retired from poker and is involved in cryptocurrency. He partially owns the website CoinCentral and also owns a Youtube channel dedicated to crypto.
He was born in Pasadena, California and started to show a talent and interest in strategy games from the age of 5, when his father taught him to play chess. When he was 15 he was very passionate about Warcraft 3 and became so good, that he took part at multiple World Cyber Games tournaments. Then he slowly got bored of Warcraft and made his transition to poker in college.
Even though he initially attended the University of North Carolina Wilmington, he then dropped out to focus solely on poker. He started with the smallest stakes possible and transformed a deposit of $20 into $10,000. He had his ups and downs, and in 2011 he almost went broke. But he then made a recover and in 2013 he was known as one of the best online players in the world at heads-up no limit hold’em. One of his popular games was that against Ben Sulsky, a game that had 15,000 hands. Doug Polk was the winner after all, and made $840,000 from that game alone.
He took part in many other tournaments and as of September 2017, his total earnings were more than 9 million dollars, with his best live cash prize of more than 3 million. He is number 78 in an all-time money list of poker players and number 44 from the United States. His popularity ranking is 29, and we can also tell that from the number of Twitter followers.
Doug Polk always kept in close touch with his fans from all over the world, and posted a total of more than 11,000 tweets. He now has more than 127,000 followers on Twitter, almost 200,000 subscribers on Youtube and more than 80,000 followers on Instagram. He is also streaming poker games on Twitch and teaches other people how to win tournaments in an online course.
He is very active on Twitter, replying to most questions and tweets from fans, supporters, trolls or enemies. So if you have anything to say to Doug, feel free to do it.
Whether you want to improve your poker game, or to learn more about cryptocurrency, make sure to follow Doug Polk on Twitter and Youtube, as you will definitely have a lot to learn from this successful guy.
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