What Was Poker Really Like in 2005? (w/ Taylor Caby)

Doug Polk Podcast

Oct 19, 2021•1 hr 47 min•Season 1Ep. 17

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Episode description

Long-time poker pro and CardRunners founder Taylor Caby joins Doug Polk to talk about playing poker in the boom years, starting the first major poker training site, and more.

0:00 Intro
1:14 Taylor joins, CardRunners/Upswing
12:26 Online poker in 2003
20:44 Online poker today
34:07 Quitting poker, Starting DraftDay, DFS talk
44:23 Establish The Run
51:00 Are training sites ruining the games?
56:40 Building niche communities
1:04:17 Doug gets into self tanners
1:13:03 CryptoPunks
1:25:22 Crypto market, Poker players in Crypto
1:35:07 The similarities of Doug and Taylor
1:45:12 Outro

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