Background
Polk was born in Pasadena, California and has loved strategy games ever since he was 5 when his father taught him chess.
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Career
Polk plays under the alias WCGRider specializing in heads-up Number Limit hold"econometrics At the age of 15 Polk was a competitive electronic sports player before transitioning to poker in college. Polk attended the University of North Carolina Wilmington, but dropped out before graduating to pursue poker full-time.
He started playing $0.01/$0.02 stakes at PokerStars and ran a $20 deposit into $10,000.
During this time Polk described himself as a "breakeven rakeback pro". In 2011, he was nearly broke and decided to fully focus on the game.
He played fellow professional poker player Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky in a highly publicized match of 15,000 hands. As of 2014 his total live tournament earnings exceed $3,600,000.
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