The Incredible Run That Brought Jerry Yang $8,250,000 And The WSOP Main Event Gold Bracelet!
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- Опубліковано 2 вер 2021
- Was Jerry Yang's World Series of Poker Main Event win the most improbable one in the history of poker? Relive all the epic moments now as he beat out the likes of Tuan Lam, Raymond Rahme, Alex Kravchenko, Jon Kalmar, Hevad Khan, Lee Childs, Lee Watkinson, and Phillip Hilm at the final table!
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That hand against Watkinson was hilarious. "Cmon father! Prosper!"
from hitting a runner runner gutshot to winning the main event , you gotta be happy for the guy he had an amazing run anyone would dream of having
I would feel a little embarrassed at having won with so many terrible calls.
@@StuUngar salty sucker who thinks winning 8 million is embarrassing🤣 poker is all about luck
@@chajy4319 If you think poker is all about luck, that shows how little you know about the game.
Just goes to show, nobody wins any WSOP main event without having luck on their side…even if that luck is getting lucky to have your hands hold up
@@StuUngar It requires skill but it IS all about luck, it takes luck to suck out on somebody and it requires luck to have your hands hold up and not be drawn out on
How can you hate a guy like jerry yang? Sure he may not have played optimally but he is passionate and said hes going to help people with his winnings. Seems pretty ok in my book
I played with Yang when he came to Florida to promote WSOP circuit events years ago. A generous gentleman at poker table. A bit loose call on $2-$5 cash games. Maybe, he did not care about losing a couple thousands at small stake cash games then.
Can’t hate him. Genuine nice guy who was on top of the world. Got to love it!
the religious stuff at the poker table?
@@antzooma hey as long as you arent pushing beliefs on me then who cares? Live and let live
@@cdude665 he's not doing that but saying please God let me win this gambling hand is hypocritical and insulting so I can see why some wouldnt like it, but yeah I never heard anyone say they hate him so no reason for your original comment anyway
The QQ vs JJ hand is going to haunt that guy forever
No idea how he folded that. Perfect flop. Shouldn’t of gone in at all then lol.
@@christophercapuno401 easy to say in hindsight when millions aren’t on the line. Jerry could have had KK or AA there and he took the cautious route.
And why did he donked ? People were terrible back then lol
@@isaacentebi7383 exactly, I hate when people donk bet and the opponent comes over the top and they're like "omg wtf do I do now" smh
@@YoshiBugatti Why do you hate bad plays? You should be happy about that. Work on your mental game buddy
He studies his opponents, gets a mental read, uses his background in psychology, applies everything he's learned from reading poker literature. ...and then just sucks out when getting the money in really really bad.
lmao dude i literally crapped myself at your comment.
@Jrdfgy Krtysf Yes, but this dudes comment was literally 100% the truth about how Yang won this title. He was literally the biggest sucker I have ever known to win a major event, it's just proof that there is a very heavy load of luck involved in winning poker tournaments, especially major events.
Seems like he got it in pretty good 2me...lol
And the power of jesus christ
You could be a bad player when you have god on your side.
Lee Childs was a nervous wreck with those Queens, I thought he was gonna bust out crying and run outta the room....
That decision changed everything. A blunder that will haunt him forever.
Still crying about Appomattox
Skills aside, this guy sounds like a real family man and it's always great to see people like him win big.
This is the most entertaining and emotional WSOP final table I’ve ever seen.
If you hate Jerry yang you need to look in the mirror. This is in my opinion the most wholesome, humble, just down to earth winner in WSOP history. I hope he's still doing well today
what will looking in the mirror do for me ? will i suddenly like him ?
Kenny Tran doesnt like Jerry Yang for some reason....he should look in the mirror lol
@@lcb4082 Laos/Hmong rivalry with Vietnam possibly 7:40
He has been through alot. Just opened a new restaurant in Fresno Ca. My brother in law is his friend.
Don't really like that Yang is shouting like a madman after every pot he wins. Should show some respect if you suckout someone. Just go and handshake with them, after that you can celebrate with your family. He has no class.
Its interesting to see how the game of poker has changed just within the last 10-20 yrs. Before, players would get a hand and just jam all-in and hope for the best, while now they take 5 min on every street of play. It was definitely more exciting back then.
Agreed, I wish they would institute a shorter clock 🕒 for a decision. These guys nowadays take forever with half assed hands, it's boring to watch.
The only time that happens is during the ME final table, and that's because people are afraid of looking stupid these days.
Plus I love the characters that played back in this era and before. Now it’s all online number nerds with no chat or personality just running numbers.
That was the best heartfelt win I've ever seen! So well deserved. Congratulations Jerry.
The look on Maria Ho’s face when he runner runnered the straight.
She was like: WTF!!???
maria ho ?? where is she wtf
@@Nick-bu2hr that's the not so beautiful Asian lady which looks in shock. Money made her sexy haha
@@beeenreen5954 loool realllyy
@@Nick-bu2hr come on compare her there to now...and back than she was like 20? Should have been fucking hot back than! Shes fake from face to titti
"In Jesus's name no weapon formed against you shall prosper!"
While gambling.. and not necessarily talking about poker in itself, but going all-in with A7 🤣😅
She was tempting God.
Thou shalt not tempt the lord thy God.
Both of them praying to the Lord though...
Not that there is anything wrong with it.
Yeah that was cringe af and sad
I was dying laughing
She made Jennifer Tilly seem normal 😂😂
Jamie Gold made the 2006 final table massively entertaining, but this is easily the FUNNIEST final table of all-time 🤣
Jamie was a trash talker and intimidating while this guy is using his reading effectively as a psychologist. Yes! He did it successfully. The motivation behind as a family and religion have helped him paved his confidence to be more keen on his decision making. I still puzzle until this time whether the prayers have been answered or just a coincidence the way he read the opponents card.
ONE MILLION times as funny.
@@filipinoforextrader5573 What decision making he called every time. Most the time he was ahead or it was a flip. He just got cards and was gutsy and lucky.
Jamie Gold and intimidating DO NOT belong in the same sentence. Gold is a joke
I would have punched Kenny Tran so hard in the face if he joked around like that with me. Jerry has the patience of a saint lol
Very unfair game when one player has the Good Lord Jesus Christ on his side.
Honestly, it's kinda gross hearing people pray over a poker game.
@@Victor-zg8kq yup
@@Victor-zg8kq Indeed.
Jesus can dodge bullets baby
Both sides appealing to him 😆
ah the days when you could walk away in the middle of a hand and ask the crowd for help
That's actually nuts. How could he ask his dad for an advice without recieving a warning. If I was the other player in that hand I would call the floor manager in a second. Obviously my opponent is a fish but I don't know how strong players he has on his side off the table. I don't want them to play his fucking hands 😄
Typical of 'that accent', when faced with a tough call. Lemme ask 'mah daddy'
Finally I found proof that I should become a believer and pray
The key and the sicker of all That fabulous poker, to me, was that fold of queens vs jacks after that flop.
Aggression combined with running well....he was at least in a flip or dominant situation with the exceptions of the qq/jj and kj/j8 ironically against the same player.
I used to play the 1-3 with him all the time at Pechanga. It was surreal when he won it. He was a solid player, but I'd never say he was even in the top 10 regulars to the room. Crazy.
Maybe more people need to take a shot in Vegas at one of the low buy in tables then!¡!
I imagine that even the pro of pros have many casual players that surpass them.
I mean mathematically it just makes sense !
Where’s your bracelet?
@@Renwoxing13
Cash games are different than tournaments. Tom Dwan is great at cash games but not as great at tournaments. Phil H. is great at tournaments but not so great at cash games.
I’m gonna show you respect… shows QQ… Jerry: thanks for stamping my ticket to fame 😂😂😂
That lay down is going to haunt him for the rest of his life. Imagine Lee Childs reviewing the WSOP after the event is over. 🤣🤣🤣 Man, the guy probably bashed his head into the TV or the computer thinking "WTF did I do that???" Could've bust Jerry Yang out and change the outcome of WSOP 2007 main event instead he let Jerry Yang beat him with a J8 suit. 😂
@@drakedraven6961the J was there if Childs had called, for sure
Wow. 3:10 Kenny Tran actually acting like a prick and talking trash cuz Jerry is not in the poker professional crowd. Jerry shows class by not responding to Kenny's needling when Daniel sucks out a 3 outer. I feel for Jerry here. That hand sums up my poker career
That dude that folded queens deserved what he got! 😂 why even call pre, wth are you expecting? Only to flop a set? You pretty much had the best flop you could ask for with queens besides flopping set or open ended draw and then you fold… SMH.
Not sure man why he folded...he chicken out.
rumor is that he was high on coke, also he is gay so yeah go figure
Maybe he thought yang had pocket kings or aces lol
He had a quite incredible run Being all in for so many times being behind
He was extremely lucky but he was ahead preflop many times at final table. Against Hilm , Watkinson , Khan, Kravchenko, Lam, he was ahead. And Rhame gave him him all his chips with Kk with ace on flop.
This is the most inspirational and miraculous run I have ever seen 😭
I remember watching this back in 2007 on UA-cam. Enjoyed it so much. But watching it now and seeing so many bad plays
Wow, I forgot how big this played so quickly. 3.5-5x raises pre. 50bb jams over 4bb raises. No idea of ICM. Shit mucking for 2 hours would have netted you a cool million at this table. I just think in the end most people were just scared of post-flop play, unlike today where most of the poker is done post-flop at the WSOP final table, especially with stack size is over 10 bb.
Yang so classy after eliminating Kahn, "I now consider us to be friends for life" 😉
Maria's face @ 0:43
So glad they brought this footage back, love Jerry.
Phillip Hilm went from chip leader to 9th place finish, absolutely horrendous blowup. deserved what he got
85 suited is a serious hand lol
Same as Matthew Su from chip leader to 9th place lol
A class player, and I hope his run of success in helping others and winning in poker continues.
Yeah Hiln and Rahme gift wrapped those chips and the victory
"I hope that's not my family photo"
"That would be no luck at all to him I'm sure"
😂😂😂
I’m 39 next year and have always dreamt I will win WSOP and it seems in the last 20 years 39 years old has been a lucky age,next year is my year baby.
That final table was filled with the biggest fish 🤣🤣🤣 wish I was there
Don't you wish you can make the final table at the wsop
@@erichhartmann9797 I just said “I WISH I was there” can you read
Yea we'll know pro Jason Edwin would have cleaned up lmao
LMAO THIS WHOLE EPISODE WAS SO FUNNY WITH ALL THE GOD BLESSINGS ETC 😂😂😂😂😂😂 THIS MADE MY MORNING
yeah made me lmao hard
This guys deserves every little bit of what he’s earned!!
He was on fire, the poker gods was with him that night. Well played Jerry
Not poker gods.the real OG jesus christ was inside his belly
That A5 call against Rahme is pretty insane. In a 3bet pot nowadays, Rahme's hand could've easily been a set of Jacks or 8s given that it was 3 handed at the time
Rahme made his hand a bluff. Jerry is autocaller, don't need to do that.
Jerry Yang's run is my favorite of the 'amatuer' runs. He played such great consistent poker and won flips when he needed to, he honestly played better more than even Raymer did!
Ahh yes, the old counter prayer. Classic
I wish they showed the chip count of the players and cost of antes and blinds in each hand so we'd know the pot size relative to the blinds and players' chip stacks.
Watching this is like I’m playing wrong today.
That’s what luck being on your side looks like! Good on him!
And what about the hours of hours of him playing that wasn’t recorded that led him to the main event and then winning? All luck with all those professionals? Stop hating bruh
I played with Jerry back in 2012 when I lived in Vegas. Really nice genuine guy. Unfortunately he went bankrupt after donating 10% of his ME winning, helping out others & some bad investments. He got caught up in the 08 bank crisis when his funds were stuck. It prevented him from paying his Federal taxes off the 8.2M win. With late fees & penalties, the amount grew to over 600k. The Feds auctioned off his house and properties including his ME bracelet. All he had left was his book deal... From Refugee Camp to Poker Champ
That’s horrible
are you serious？8millions？
@@jaycoyao9127 yep, he lost it all and ended up owing 585k to the IRS. He paid his state tax but never paid the federal tax off the winning.
Jesus will pay it.
How do you only owe $600,000 to the Feds on $8.2 million of income? That doesn't sound right.
Folding those Queens over Jacks was soooo hard to watch, like how. And Jerry ran like a god
Used to always play at lake Elsinore casino..Jerry was always there! Great Guy! Salute Jerry!
"You cannot pray on the table" wins the game with prayer lol
The god run of the century🔥🔥
The look on Lams face 😂 went from yeah baby!! To WTF lol
I always find it funny when people pray at the poker table. At 15:30, Yang was literally begging God to eliminate Childs
So much for the psychology. He was aggressive at the right time. Meaning he got lucky as well. But definitely had them balls to push hard and i imagine thats not easy to do in such a big tournament and specially in such big stages of that tournament.
Yang is a good man, a real American story.
Always good 2 give back bro👌🏻
One of the coolest and most humble WSOP Main Event winners I had the chance to interview.
This was the year I played in the main ahhh such a simpler time
Maria ho at the table must be such a blessing....you can eye her down without her having grounds for protesting...lol
These dudes praying and then immediately screaming YES is just so humorous to me
The KJ call was so sick. After laying down the queens lol. But I imagine every pro would call just cause of the flush draw on board.
It was preflop
I remember watching this way back in the day... but couldn't remember anything about his win: it was kind of a boring WSOP, boring final table and an uneventful win.
I will say that as a champion Jerry Yang did make the smart decision to not go on shows like High Stakes Poker or other TV cash game shows where the WSOP champ usually loses big because they end up playing for stakes out of their comfort zone.
Maybe the most memorable thing is the chip leader coming in the final table, busting in 9th.
The incarnation of the "better to be lucky than good" statement
Lollllllllll goes and asks dad for advice midhand hahah
Wow! I got a guy to root for here! Great story, one of the nice guys.
How this guys make the final table mind blowing his yang won mind blowing
I think people forget how well Rahme played this final table. I remember watching it live.
Who cares if he played well. When it really mattered Rahme messed up big time. It was funny to hear him mumble under his breath and even stutter with, it's your decision Jerry
@@marrokraff998 sorry dude
@@bearatts don't be sorry man! Thinking back at this tourney! I can only remember 2 things. Jerry Yang raising! And Rahme messing up.
Can’t stop laughing at the praying wife!😅😂🤣
That guy folding the queens is insane, and if Rahme wouldn’t have stood up and not said anything I think Jerry would’ve folded the A5
wow fantastic run great watch
Jerry yang "I basically learned poker from a correspondence course and from a pamphlet out of a bubble gum machine". Also Child's leads out into a raiser after flatting with QQ then folds to a shove on a 7 hi board, but then calls off his tournament with KJ off LMFAO.
Tried to Implement that "pray strategy" in my online grinding. My wife left me after first session. It is hard to do that for 8 hours playing 10 tables.
NOT to take away from Yang's personal skill and courage, because there was hours and hours of play we didn't see that got him this far.... but it did seem that at least a couple people practically gave him their entire stack LOL!! Those first couple of major double ups were so completely ridiculous on the part of the people who went all in, it's crazy....
i don’t know about giving it him..
I can’t remember it photographically but I think Helm had a bad beat or tough break a few hands before Jerry took him out so I think he was just tilted.
I’ve watched this whole year and Yang got his money in bad plenty of time he got so lucky many times. He seems like a nice guy though but he was a luck box.
I wonder if Lee Childs still checks under his bed for monsters??
Him not 4 betting/shipping it with QQ preflop changed the whole tournament. Also if you’re going to flat with QQ why are you leading out on the flip? Smh
@@ilovebrandnewcarpets yeah it’s his to lose if he makes the call. Crazy times back then
@@ilovebrandnewcarpets cuz it’s 2007 and no one knows how to play poker yet lmao
Damn remember watching Hilm and the historic wsop final table meltdown.
Huge raises, no icm idea that was crazy
That's actually what the wiz kids do now with a big chip lead. Raise big to put pressure on the small stacks who have to worry about ICM. Yang was ahead of his time.
Childs was the kid in Little League that always struck out looking but tells all the kids..."The pitch was outside."
Final table felt like an Exorcism.
Jerry's mom summed it up in 1 word:
Hallelujah!
all in in the dark on the final table hahaha
u gotta live baby
Yeah, he should of just went all in preflop...he wasn't folding after putting in almost all his chips
I was looking for this comment 😂
Jerry yang makes poker really exciting!
That was the most incredible run Ivew ever seen.
Praying to sky daddy to help you win at gambling is soooo cringe
Didn't see any other champions doing it 😂
its rediculous
“ Make lee a believer “ 😂
@@Johnny-Jackpot Lol she was the worst
Maybe it was these other player's lack of faith that induced them to donk off their entire stacks like a bunch of 4 year olds playing poker. Daniel Alaei trying to throw his tournament away with A5, and Lee Watkinson, going bonkers with A7 and getting called by A9. Poker so bad, you never see anything like this now.
"Lord please help me get lucky while I sin" 😂
U don’t know if it’s a sin. Gambling is different now than 3000 years ago. Times change. Can’t interpret the Bible unless ur an expert, need to understand the time of when it was written and the exact meanings. Otherwise Ull notice it contradicts itself a lot. Like about abortion, alcohol and gay sex. Plus other topics. Sometimes it sounds like it’s ok and other times it sounds like it forbidden.
@@santaclause3487 Bible doesnt contradict itself.
Gambling is not a sin according to the Bible.
He deserved all off it bless him
Jerry yang ' YEAHHHH YEAHHHH YEAHHHH' 😂😂😂🔥
Lam was the smartest guy by folding all day long
And got it in at right time
life changing money and khan goes all in in the dark with aq lmao
What happened to Tuan Lam now? We haven’t see him play cash game? Is he still live in 🇨🇦?
7:08 lmao good old NIT POKER HAHAHAHAH
🤣"I belive în your miracle my Lord!"
Maria Ho and Alan Keating both making appearances in this video. The editor must've been freaking Nostradamus
Evident Yang was running over these "top" pros and you can see the frustration and ironic comments from them towards Yang
What a guy, he deserved to win 🤩
Khan giving Yang a hug after Yang knock him out was wholesome .
MAKE ME A BELIEVER 😂🤣 SHE SAID
9:45 Norman Chad is so brilliant
I totally forgot Lee Watkinson was this table!
awesome guy away from the tables. glad he won.
from a 225$ satty into the wsop , now thats a story!
True belief vs "make me a believer"
You can see who had real faith here...
For whatever that is worth