I was just thinking the same thing watching this. Time goes by, quicker than we think and faster than we know.

Yup we had home games in 2002 when we were soph in HS and then they played the 2002 final table on ESPN. We were like this is so cool (the year Varkoni won). Then MoneyMaker won, then this was the absolute peak, playing final tables of every event, plus Main, on ESPN

I know right? I remember I was 17 watching this. At that time I’ve never played 1 hand of poker, and yet I was heavily involved watching the World Series Of Poker. Watching Chris Money Maker win it all the year before was when I started watching. When he bluffed Sam Farrah to steal the pot was the bluff of the century. I was pulling for Greg Ramer the following year, especially with the glasses

The final hand was my first poker hand I ever seen. Was great times fresh in high school

Doesn't auger well for the sport of poker when some inept tub-a-lard wins the main even. It does though give hope to the rank amateurs that luck plays a very large part on occasion.

Remember everything you say at the poker table conveys information.

@@thepokerbuds3887 Everything you do*, not say.

It’s about time he got coolered

Dan Harrington is the truly skillful player. Back to back final tables

Yep. Had his kings cracked by a donk who made a suicide bluff with QhJh and backdoored a flush. It didn't know Raymer out but completely crippled him, he wins that pot he's coasting to a back-to-back final table

Newhouse went back to back final table with both fields of 6,000+. Granted he busted 9th but highly impressive

@@natestrasburg and Coren. Back to back EPTs if Im Not mistaken. That’s ludicrous

josh arieh is an asshole though pretty obvious by everything he says

Yep, what a complete prick. Glad Raymer went on to win if only to piss off that pair of wankers.

yeah that was weird

Could you decipher what he said? I couldnt, figured he was talking shit about raymer tho

@@getsnipedhockey32 "Bust this motherfucker" Is what I heard

In the open world

I’d take it

Norman Chad?

He was coked out of his goddamned mind during this video.

Have you seen Mike lately? He hasn't aged well ... period.

Well considering he has 4 WSOP bracelets, I think you'll find he did alright for himself... Raymer is a scumbag

@@onlyweatherlol93 why is he a scumbag?

Raymor was busted in prostitution sting. Scumbag enough?

Fascinating story

@@kieranstafford9718 one for the annals, that.

How about Andersson who went out in 9th? Some true class after taking the bad beat

@@gulaggary613 weirdly that's his only live cash ever 😃

Well he did have a million reasons to smile.

Did he once sing for Deep Purple?

They were so much better and so much more fun than the modern edition.

The golden era of poker on TV for sure.

I think they had a lot to do with the explosion in popularity. They made it entertaining even for viewers who didn't really know poker.

Whatever happened to these guys!?? They set the bar so high

He writes “Seat one is a jerk and has bigger cojones than me”

Go for it

Except for the 4 people who won the event two years in a row, sure.

@@SweetZombiJesus winning back to back with the small fields they had isn't even close to what Raymer did. You must be a casual. Raymer won a title and 25th the next year after the poker boom where the fields were massive.

@@SweetZombiJesusJohnny Chan was the last to win the main event back to back against a field of 152 in 87 and 167 other players in 88, Raymer won against a field of 2576 players you have to be the biggest luck box to win the main and Raymer was a luck box.

Daniel Weinman who just won beat over 10,000 people you have to have a lot of skill but it’s more luck than anything.

He practices law.

Dude got caught up in a prostitution scandal after he won 😂 “Savage” Foxwoods “The wonder of it all” 😂

Yeah and at least Greg didn’t blow it all on blackjack that night like matasow 😂

@@bigbusiness87 Mike would have blown all his winnings anyway. Much better that Greg went onto win it.

​@@Mitjitsu raymer spent his winnings on prostitutes and got caught lol

KZfaq wasn’t around back then he wasn’t able to learn outs the way we have by watching so much TV poker.

Crazy you could become a Poker millionaire and not even know how to count outs LOL

@@bbw1979 is this a joke? Lol

@@pali4434 kinda, lol

Also at 10:08 Norm missed that a 5 would split it also.

I've always wondered about that hand and im split. I'm no pro, but he certainly committed himself and made it harder to fold by putting in the 40%. I guess he put Raymer on a flush draw, maybe a flush and straight draw? Raymer Called preflop raise which heads up doesn't mean much. After the flop, Raymer went raise, big bet, big bet. The way he played it, my gut says to fold, but Williams seemed to have decided from the get go that Raymer was on a draw and didn't get there, or maybe he thought he flopped a straight? But if a straight were the case, Williams would've folded after the turn bet. And thats a pretty tough to bluff to keep making on the river when the third deuce falls. Raymer continued to show strength throughout. I've always thought williams should've folded. If I were williams, I would've put Raymer on a 5. But this of course was almost 20 years ago, so back then I didn't know anything about poker so I wouldn't have put him on anything. Interesting hand to discuss

If he didn't get arrested for that Hooker in 2013 he would have been real classy!

Classy?? He was busted in a prostitution sting the following year🤣

What’s wrong with getting a hooker?

@@jeff13148 in my defense I did say classy poker player lol. But I didn’t know about the hooker sting. Was she classy lol?

@@matteckert6676 What kind of tiny brain thinks paying for sex is an awful thing? #whatamaroon

It’s insane that he finished 25th the year after

You realize the heartland poker is a re buy and they gave raymer unlimited Rebuys for free right?

@@dnx112 I never heard that, and its possible. But, Raymer got 25th the year after his main event win, and i read what he wrote on 2+2 at that time, and he was ahead of the curve. The game has changed, the talent much deeper, but back then, he was one of the very best

@@garygwinn4256 no he wasn’t. He’s never been heard of again, just like Moneymaker and Jamie Gold.

@@huffysonic6383 moneymaker is still playing and relevant, Gold not so much

Back-to-back in a WSOP feild that large would have been incomprehensible 😮

Anyone who has won the main event ran golden you can't win a tournament like that on skill alone

Skill gets you in the running. Winning the variance is how you win. But, the years after Moneymaker proved that a good player could win. It didn’t take great. Now, put those same folks in a few million hands and the real greats will take their wallets over time.

yo share the link!! lol

Nice one sentence.

flush draw missed, straight draw missed.. and not being reraised preflop, it didn't appear that Raymer had an over pair. that's kind of a cooler board to have David's hand in that exact situation.

Noone folds full houses, especially during the POKER BOOM

Zeebo Theorum

David likes to gamle but it didnt work out this time!

He lost sight of the prize!! smh We got to learn from this

no class

She was devastated. I wonder why. Thanks for pointing this out. "good eye"

Big tournaments like That of course

Of course it's luck. No one knows what card could show. You could play 72 off suit and turn a full house on the flop, but there's skill in knowing which hands to play with. All his choices were very solid here.

Showing up drunk at all the following tournaments must have foreshadowed bad things to come for Chris in the future.

He actually had to split those winnings with a partner of his…I believe he paid or helped pay for his buy in.

@@095862 most of the top pros sell out portions of their buy in money. Jamie Gold had a partner too. But Jamie blew his half in a few months on poker after dark the largest TV cash games ever. But they still did what I didn't so I credit them

You guys don't know what you're talking about. He didn't blow it all on tv poker lol. They paid him to appear on those shows. He lost it in legal battles

@@_Chris_D_3004 “you guys”? I never said he blew his money…I said he had to split his main event winnings…yes by legal means because he tried not to pay the guy and the guy sued. I believe they settled out of court.

Don't forget about Duhamel 😂

Maybe back then. But he did get arrested a few years back for hiring a prostitute so I can’t imagine it’s a happy relationship now. Money changes people.

No

There’s no footage shy of the last two tables 🤣

LMAO, raymer has better hair

Name one WSOP main event champion who wasn't lucky

@@torikomadara1031 Stu "The Kid" Unger... One of the highest I.Q's in the history of mankind as well as having a photographic memory. Stu only had to play a game for about 2 weeks before he could best the best in the world. Best gin player who ever lived. Took him about a week after learning the game to defeat the world champion at the time.

You're both right...he was running like god (winning coin flips, delivering bad beats while an underdog, and being on the top end of coolers), but yes there is a lot we didn't see.

How much do they play, like 10hrs a day für 5 days or so.... hundreds of Hands

That’s how Jamie gold and quite a few others won

It’s gambling after all

for last 20 players, luck decides everything

Those are the flips you saw on coverage… could there have been other ones?? 🤔