Gossip Column: Doug Polk & Fernando Habegger Upswing Poker Feud Blows Up & Gus Hansen & 6 Others Flip Over $294,000 Pots For 2 Hours
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- PG News July 24, 2018
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After a summer filled with exciting poker tournaments we’d have thought there would be some respite from the hectic action on and off the felts, but not so! There’s never a shortage of juicy and head-turning developments in the poker world, and in this edition of our PokerGuru Gossip Column, we have just the right mix of entertainment for you.
In our first story, we see the disagreement between YouTuber and poker player Doug Polk and Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) specialist Fernando ‘JNandez87’ Habegger intensify even further as both former partners take to YouTube to wash their dirty laundry in public.
We then move to Las Vegas, where the Bobby’s Room at The Bellagio was once again stage to Gus Hansen and six others who grabbed the attention, with all players going all-in for $42,000 to make for a $294,000 pot every hand, for a non-stop two hours.
So sit back and read on while we take you to the high-drama action in the life and career of some of the biggest poker stars!
Doug Polk vs. Fernando Habegger Feud Over Upswing Poker Blows Up
The dispute between PLO instructor Fernando Habegger and YouTuber and poker player Doug Polk has been ongoing for quite some time, but on July 22, Habegger, aka JNandez87, released an hour long video on YouTube, titled ‘The Truth about Doug Polk, Joey Ingram and my Relationship with Upswing Poker’, presenting his side of the story on the argument where he claims that Polk owed the former Upswing coach $90,000.
Published a video about my relationship with Doug Polk, Joey Ingram and Upswing Poker https://t.co/8EalzvRdcN . A 2nd video about the “scarfsituation” and JNP follows tomorrow.
— JNandez (@JNandezPoker) July 22, 2018
The video response was due to previous tweets that Polk had posted on his social media handle on July 20 where he belittled Habegger.
It appears Jscamdez has bounced on paying an elderly lady for 100 hours of knitting scarves with his logo on it
You cant make this stuff uphttps://t.co/TBFdUqvLeu
— Doug Polk (@DougPolkPoker) July 20, 2018
Really bad summary
– We launch one time purchase course for Upswing early 2017
– Fernando wants to change to a subscription course to make more money, tells us internally hes in it for the long haul
– We sell many monthly/6m/12m courses
— Doug Polk (@DougPolkPoker) July 20, 2018
– Fernando realizes the contract is badly worded in his favor and decides to quit
– Fernando at the same time decides to launch competing company
– Fernando attempts to cannibalize our users
– Fernando not responsing to attorneys for breach of contract, and issue is escalating
— Doug Polk (@DougPolkPoker) July 20, 2018
Habegger did find support on social media.
if you purely look at it in a business way, then @DougPolkPoker was smarter and won. if you look at it from an ethical point of view, then DP did a shitty job. DP is quick to judge other. He should “treat others the way he wants to be treated”
— SharkAccount (@isrswe) July 22, 2018
But, true to his nature, Polk responded to Habegger’s video with a video post of his own, ‘Let’s Talk About The Facts Regarding Upswing Poker And JNandez’, a few hours after Habegger had posted his video.
You make many misleading statments, and downright lies in this video. You are making up numbers for which you have no proof.
If anyone would like to see the actual facts and numbers, you can do so herehttps://t.co/KnAX1uwWsh
— Doug Polk (@DougPolkPoker) July 23, 2018
In his video, Polk defended Upswing’s decision to purchase the domain name RunItOncePoker.com, even though the main domain name was meant to be connected to Phil Galfond’s training site, which prompted some negative reactions from the twitteratti.
looks like ill have my pokersite up before galfond/runitonce idiots. heard they don’t even own the domain for their site 🙂
— Jason Mo (@cuntycakes123) September 26, 2017
Not to be outdone, Habegger took to YouTube, this time posted a video labelled ‘Someone Has to Keep Doug Polk Accountable’, and he took things a step further by challenging Polk to a $50,000 boxing challenge, stating that if he wins he’ll use the money “to get as many people as I can into the Colossus event at the WSOP next year.”
With Polk slated to appear in his friend and Upswing affiliate partner Joey Ingram’s podcast soon, we can be rest assured that it’s not the last of this quarrel!
Gus Hansen & 6 Others Play Huge Stakes At Bobby’s Room For 2 Hours Straight
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is over and many poker pros have traveled back out of Las Vegas but not high stakes pro Gus Hansen who seems to have made Bobby’s Room at The Bellagio his poker den. And since Hansen doesn’t tire of giving his fans video glimpses of the games and hands at play, we know what he’s been up to!
Hansen was one of the seven players in the thick of action at the Big Game last Thursday. The game of choice was seven way Omaha flips and the group was playing this for $42,000 a pop, coming to a total $294,000 in the middle every single hand. Hansen shared a video of one of these hands.
The shocking part here is not even the high stakes but the fact that they played the high stakes game continuously for two whole hours.
Hansen himself called it “Insanity” in his next Instagram post.
After the two-hour sweat at limits that were the highest so far this summer, the seven players finally decided to return to playing poker with blinds of $6,000/$12,000. A tad modest after the heights they went up to, we’d say!
That’s it from our gossip stables for this edition but stay tuned for we’ll be back with more titillating and scandalous gossip soon!
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