Doug Polk Wins $271,000 Live on YouTube

Polk recently complained about how large streamers stifle his audience on Twitch and therefore he announced he's going to stream more on YouTube. The move worked out very well for him so far - he live streamed finishing first in a 5K buy-in tournament on partypoker and his YouTube numbers skyrocketed.

Doug Polk has been posting videos on YouTube regularly for years now - in fact he's the poker player with the biggest following on that platform. But for his live streams he used Twitch for most of the time, as many poker players do - there, however he's far from the top.

He made a video complaining about how when Jason "JCarver" Sommerville goes live he automatically gets promotoed to the front page and sucks away Polk's audience. 

So he streamed his Sunday session on YouTube, and according the numbers, it was the right move: he gained thousands of new subscribers and his 8-hour video of himself playing poker garnered over 100,000 views within a day. 

This is mostly due to the fact that he finished first in the 5K tournament on partypoker, winning $271,000 - the largest amount won live on YouTube ever.

So it looks like WCGRider is sticking with Google's video sharing platform, but things aren't so fine and dandy over there either: recently many big YouTubers voiced their concerns about the site's "adpocalypse", when many major brands decided to pull advertising from YouTube after news outlets started writing about how some controversial content on the site has ads for well-known companies running before them. This resulted in the content creators losing a large junk of their ad revenue.

You can watch Polk's profitable 8-hour session below.