The Lodge Card Club just outside of Austin, Texas, has announced that it will reopen on May 26 at 9:00am, two and a half months after it was raided by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC). The raid occurred on the morning of March 10, just hours after the end of the Lodge Championship Series.… Read more »
Future is cloudy Two weeks ago, The Lodge Card Club in Austin, Texas was raided by law enforcement. Players were sent home, doors were closed, and assets were seized. And now it looks like those doors will remain shut for a long time. Though no criminal charges have been filed yet, Jason Levin, one of… Read more »
The Lodge Card Club, just north of Austin, Texas, was raided Tuesday morning by state police and the Texas Alcohol and Beverage Commission (TABC). Little is known about the incident, which occurred just hours after the conclusion of the Lodge Championship Series. Doug Polk, who owns the card club with Andrew Neeme and Brad Owen,… Read more »
To be brutally honest, the 2024 World Series of Poker, and the $10,000 Championship Event (the “Main Event”) did not end well. The fiasco regarding Jonathan Tamayo’s win in the event – with a rail full of computers and professional players advising him – was a black eye to the sport, one that still hasn’t… Read more »
Every day is a fine day for an overlay. Unless, I suppose, you run a poker room and the overlay is massive. Over the weekend, Doug Polk, Andrew Neeme, and Brad Owen had to swallow $417,000 in overlay for the $2 million guaranteed Lodge Championship Series Main Event at their Lodge Poker Club in Austin,… Read more »
No give, all take? One aspect of the professional poker world that you won’t find in most other industries is that players frequently loan money to one another. And while this certainly comes with its benefits, the clear downside is that when it comes to gamblers, sometimes someone is left holding the bag. Recently, some… Read more »
Thursday night saw the resumption of hostilities in another program that has been specially created by the minds over at PokerGO. High Stakes Duel has proven to be popular with its ability to bring in superstar players in a heads-up format and with massive amounts of cash on the line. In the latest iteration, the… Read more »
It seems that poker cannot exist unless it has some sort of controversy going on. The 2023 World Series of Poker was highlighted by the win in the $10,000 Championship Event by Daniel Weinman, but it also showed its seedy side. Admitted poker cheater Ali Imsirovic made a return to the tables at this year’s… Read more »
Negreanu going for the title The next round of High Stakes Duel 4 is set. PokerGO announced on Tuesday that for Round 2, Daniel Negreanu will take on old nemesis Doug Polk. Both players will buy in for $100,000. There is no set date yet, but the match-up will take place some time in August… Read more »
The first weekend of the 2023 World Series of Poker is upon us, and the folks at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas aren’t letting the players rest at all. In the two major tournaments, a longtime “High Roller” pro picked up his second piece of jewelry, while 64 men have battled down to the… Read more »
It is one of the largest poker tournaments in the history of the game. The $1 million buy-in Big One for One Drop not only revolutionized the “High Roller” poker world but also upped the game for charitable works. Now the same game is coming back, albeit in a different venue, but it still should… Read more »
If Robbi Jade Lew wants to get her money back from Garrett Adelstein, she is going to be waiting a long, long time. In an interview on Doug Polk’s podcast on Monday, Adelstein said it simply isn’t happening. Adelstein has been relatively quiet in the six months since the now infamous Jack-Four hand on Hustler… Read more »
Last week, Doug Polk challenged “the world” to a heads-up cash game match. $100,000 buy-in, blinds of $200/$400, simple as that. Later that day, he announced his first opponent: Bill Perkins. When all was said and done on Sunday, Polk finished $29,800 in the hole, but the contest served as great publicity for The Lodge… Read more »
Previously we have reported on moves in the Texas Legislature to create the Texas Gaming Commission, which would have the regulatory authority over the creation of casino gaming and sports betting in the Lone Star State. Now, the other side of the equation is sounding its opinion. In a House bill introduced last week, the… Read more »
So, has anything happened in the poker world over the last week? It seems as if the news in the poker world – both live and online – has been one consistent black eye after busted lip after broken finger over the past few days. As the weekend has rolled by, it has continued to… Read more »
Poker room owned by poker players Texas, of all places, is in the news once again for its poker rooms (though I suppose it’s weird that the state hasn’t made the poker headlines more, considering the most popular poker variant is name after it). This time, it is unretired poker pro Doug Polk who announced… Read more »
Maybe he was just born this good? 15-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth does not have much left to prove when it comes to the game, but he put a cherry on top in the PokerGO Studios in Las Vegas on Wednesday night. In Round 3 of his High Stakes Duel II… Read more »
It seems to be a bit of odd scheduling for the World Poker Tour. While the first event of their Season XIX schedule kicks off in Tampa on Friday, the WPT will also be running an international event online. The WPT Heads Up Championship is set to begin on Friday alongside the first-ever WPT Seminole… Read more »
Hellmuth need not risk a side bet For a guy who is retired from poker, Doug Polk certainly likes playing poker for tons of money. Then again, if I could beat the best poker players in the world and win millions of dollars in the process, I’d probably unretire briefly, too. And so Polk is… Read more »
When the brouhaha first sprang up between poker champions Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu, it was thought that it would be a rapid event. It turns out, however, that you’re going to have to wait for the next installment. As announced recently, Round 2 of the battle will not occur until May, giving the Hellmuth/Negreanu… Read more »
After plenty of sniping between the duo, it appears that there will be a “heads up for rollz” battle between two of poker’s most…engaging…personalities. 15-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth and fellow Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu will step to the felt against each other, with the festivities to be broadcast… Read more »
Polk won more hands than Negreanu, but not by much Two and a half weeks after his demolition of Daniel Negreanu in the “Grudge Match” heads-up challenge, Doug Polk is still talking about it. It’s no surprise, as he is certainly not shy about letting himself be heard and you know what? It’s cool because… Read more »
Negreanu issues an open invitation The next heads-up poker challenge we see might be the one we all want. In the past week, both Daniel Negreanu and Antanas “Tony G” Guoga have issued challenges to none other than 15-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth. Negreanu, who, like Hellmuth, is enshrined in the… Read more »
After a three-month battle that, for some, was never in doubt, the “Heads Up Challenge” between Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu and online legend Doug Polk has come to an end. More than 25,000 hands of poker were played and, in the end, both players were complimentary of the other. Compliments aren’t the scoreboard,… Read more »
Can’t play on his own site Now that Phil Galfond is done with Chance Kornuth, his latest opponent in the Galfond Challenge, he is looking for some new competition. Thing is, because of pandemic travel restrictions, he is stuck in the United States and therefore cannot play on Run It Once, the online poker that… Read more »
