If you are our regular reader, you certainly did not miss information about the Million Dollar Game. It's the biggest streaming cash game that started yesterday at Hustler Live Casino and the minimum buy-in here is $1,000,000.
Names like Eric Persson, Rob Yong, Tony G, Nik Airball and Doug Polk joined the game yesterday. And it was the last-named player who caused quite a stir on Twitter a few days ago when he announced that he wanted to sell a percentage of the buy-in.
Specifically, we are talking about 10 percent of the minimum buy-in. However, Doug assumed that he would pay the buy-in three times, so he sold 10 percent of the three million. And he sold those too.
However, he had no idea how he would anger his opponents. The first to comment on this was Eric Persson, who claims that such a move affects the game. Rob Yong also responded to this, who supported Eric and at the same time thinks that the financial flexibility of VIP players can compensate for less experience, which makes the game more interesting.
As is of course usual, Doug responded to these answers and explained that for such a game you need an effective stack of 2-3 million and an account of 50-100+ million, and even if he is successful, he does not have 100 million. At the same time, he defended his move by saying that the pots can be as high as 3 or 6 million dollars and he does not want to be in a situation where he will not be able to make the right decision.
In his defense, he did not stop there and used "The Corporation" as an example, which was a group of professional poker players such as Phil Ivey, Doyle Brunson, Todd Brunson, Tedd Forrest, Johnny Chan or Jennifer Harman. This group of players pooled their money and took on billionaire Andy Beal. Andy was at a significant disadvantage in terms of quality of play, but at a significant advantage in terms of bankroll, and he was beating the pros. And in the end, Beal was able to beat Phil Ivey, who won $16.6 million after the three-day session.
Below this thread on twitter you will find statements from famous and unknown names, supporters of Doug as well as his opponents. What do you think? Are you in favor of players selling percentages for such a session or should they go all in, purely for their own sake?
Source: Twitter, Cardplayer, Pokernews, stakekings
