Polk was vocal about Daniel Negreanu's challenge of beating the $25/$50 stakes with two weeks of practice, criticizing him for underestimating his opponents. Polk walked away a $740,000 winner and received an additional $100,000 bonus for winning. He played fellow professional poker player Ben 'Sauce123' Sulsky in a highly publicized match of 15,000 hands. By 2013, he was considered one of the best online cash game players in heads-up no limit hold'em. In 2011, Polk was nearly broke and decided to fully focus on the game. During this time, Polk described himself as a 'breakeven rakeback pro'.
He started playing $0.01/$0.02 stakes at PokerStars and ran a $20 deposit into $10,000. Polk attended the University of North Carolina Wilmington, but dropped out to pursue poker full-time. In 2007, he graduated from Wakefield High School. At the age of 15, Polk competed in several World Cyber Games tournaments as a Warcraft 3 electronic sports player under the name T-Rider.
His family moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, during his childhood. Polk was born in Pasadena, California, and has loved strategy games ever since he was five, when his father taught him chess. Polk played under the alias WCGRider, specializing in heads-up No Limit hold'em (HUNL). Polk (born December 16, 1988) is an American professional poker player.
