Hard to believe this was 17 years ago now. I remember watching this at the height of the poker explosion in popularity. Doesn’t feel that long ago sometimes.
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
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.
People forget how deep he went in the following tournament in 2005 with finishing 25th for a defending champion, on a pretty bad beat that year if I'm not mistaken. Going that far with even more players than the previous year, takes serious skill.
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
14:31: You gotta have a really "special" character saying THAT after you won 2.5 million and the guy who busted you shows you respect in saying that you've been one of the toughest opponents. Gotta be happy for raymer
I’ve dealt to these final two players many times. They are both wonderful people. Couldn’t ask for a better match up for the final two players. They are both winners in my book. Poker has its villains but also has its nice guys. These two guys are class acts.
I figure Raymer to be the type of guy who spends most of his time at home, playing retro video games on his Commodore 64, and talking about dinosaur fossils with Ross Geller on the BBS. Poker is just another hobby 😂
Glenn Hughes went out with a smile on his face. The fact that poker isn't everything to him and he's happy with what he got really tells a lot about him.
Watching this tournament on TV was what actually got me into poker. I've been playing ever since. I will never forget about watching Fossil Man win it all haha. My hope is to someday get to play in the Main Event.
@@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.
He won the same way everyone wins the World Series. He had a half dozen or so key points where he went all in on a coin flip type situation and he won them all.
I was a jr in high school and I remember that world series like it was yesterday. Kinda crazy to think that was 17 years ago but who could forget Greg raymer and his little Dino glasses😂. It was such an epic time for poker . I miss those days. What a time to be alive. The last years before technology ruined it all.
Funniest moment of this tourny was when Greg was being applauded , sheiky was sitting down doing a mad hand gesture haha live on video for everyone to see.
@@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
Greg is really an excellent and intelligent player.........I've watched a couple interviews of him talking about tournament strategy. It was some of the best advice I have ever heard..............
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.
Arieh makes himself look like a real punk 🤦♂️ and imagine complaining about how you are running when you made it to the final 3 of the main event 😂😂 Raymer on the other hand was a class act.
Raymer didn't get easy hands . He earned it the entire way. Now Jamie Gold had the hottest run of cards that I've ever seen. Gold actually blew that 12 million in less than 2 months in high stakes poker against real pros
@@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.
Kind of surprised when Raymer said he was more worried about the other guy more than David Williams who made it to heads up with him just made a bad read on the last one but David Williams said he was going to let people make mistakes and punish them, Dan Harrington was there but I dont know if he was talking about just the last 3 people but either way I would be kind of intimidated if I was sitting at a table with Dan Harrington and David Williams!!
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.
can't remember if going all in with position on flop (or not) for 3 pots in a single raised pot was normal back then by now, but seems like it sure wasn't. we also don't get to see whatever exact dynamic was going on between these 2, nor raymer vs rest of table entirely either (we do see some hands from this table obviously).
Looking back on this, the Moneymaker win and a few others it just proves it’s better to be lucky than good. Sure it takes some know how to get that far, but so much rides on luck.
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.
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.
Mikes call with 9s7s cost him the main event and set Raymer up for the win percentage wise he was behind also. To call of your stack with a pair of 9s and no draws is horrible
Mike the mouth bragging about his faith in his reads during the AJ vs 97s hand but he didn't realize Raymer was the favorite on the flop with 2 overs, the flush draw and 3 backdoor straight draws. If Mike correctly put him on a flush draw with 2 overs then he should've folded bc he would've known he was a slight dog to win the hand even tho he was ahead on the flop. Strong math Mike.
You got to give it to Mike the mouth with calling there, he thought he had nothing turns out he had two overs and the diamond draw and for Mike to put most of his chips in looking for the knock out sometimes 9s hold up there. He got big kahunas not little ones apparently!
Man Williams didn't even take any time to attempt to put Raymer on any type of range on the final hand. He snap called every street without any pause for concern.
“Whoever wins is considered the best in the world” Nah, poker is one of the only games where winning the world championship has no real bearing on your “ranking” in the eyes of others.
The way he destroyed mike then went on to win is classic. Funny i never hear about mike anymore. Edit: just looked up mike. He posted 18 mins ago hes out of the main event already.
It was a super great run out for 88 and williams had a house too and i can somewhat understand that he called him ( it was quick yeah ) but i think every poker player been there not beliving a guy who keeps having it you want to catch that mofo bluffing but what do i know xD
The ego shown by players throughout this clip is insane. It's so wreckless & counterproductive in a field of 7,000+ players. Just play the game without the bullsh*t. Its the reserved guy who usually wins!
@@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.
Hard to believe this was 17 years ago now. I remember watching this at the height of the poker explosion in popularity. Doesn’t feel that long ago sometimes.
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.
"I got big cojones, you got little cojones" 😂😂 I will definitely incorporate that in my table manners.
Remember everything you say at the poker table conveys information.
@@thepokerbuds3887 Everything you do*, not say.
People forget how deep he went in the following tournament in 2005 with finishing 25th for a defending champion, on a pretty bad beat that year if I'm not mistaken. Going that far with even more players than the previous year, takes serious skill.
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
and a super cool neighbor
14:31: You gotta have a really "special" character saying THAT after you won 2.5 million and the guy who busted you shows you respect in saying that you've been one of the toughest opponents. Gotta be happy for raymer
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
Him not being tilted by Mike the mouth is that much more impressive
The finest specimen of man. An athlete in the prime of his physicality.
In the open world
I’d take it
Norman Chad?
I knew him (not all that well ) in college. Met him once after he won. Nice guy. Neither one of us ever even discussed poker.
Fascinating story
@@kieranstafford9718 one for the annals, that.
I’ve dealt to these final two players many times. They are both wonderful people. Couldn’t ask for a better match up for the final two players. They are both winners in my book. Poker has its villains but also has its nice guys. These two guys are class acts.
This aged pretty poorly for Mike Matusow
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?
I figure Raymer to be the type of guy who spends most of his time at home, playing retro video games on his Commodore 64, and talking about dinosaur fossils with Ross Geller on the BBS. Poker is just another hobby 😂
He practices law.
Dude got caught up in a prostitution scandal after he won 😂 “Savage” Foxwoods “The wonder of it all” 😂
Glenn Hughes went out with a smile on his face. The fact that poker isn't everything to him and he's happy with what he got really tells a lot about him.
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?
Watching this tournament on TV was what actually got me into poker. I've been playing ever since. I will never forget about watching Fossil Man win it all haha. My hope is to someday get to play in the Main Event.
Go for it
These announcers are legends though. They have some of the most amazing lines lmao.
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
Raymer: you were my toughest opponent
Arieh: bust this mfker!
I can't think of anyone who had a better run in back to back WSOP main events. Winning and going very deep the following year.
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.
3rd place guy: "bust this guy"
Raymer: hold my wsop bracelet
Very cool rewatching these moments. Good times for sure 👍
He won the same way everyone wins the World Series. He had a half dozen or so key points where he went all in on a coin flip type situation and he won them all.
I was a jr in high school and I remember that world series like it was yesterday. Kinda crazy to think that was 17 years ago but who could forget Greg raymer and his little Dino glasses😂. It was such an epic time for poker . I miss those days. What a time to be alive. The last years before technology ruined it all.
Imagine Mike’s face when Greg won!
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
“Don’t let me get unlucky” literally a slight underdog. Good call though
I remember when I was a kid they had his glasses inside those claw Toy grabber machines and I won them and wore them everywhere like a geek
I met raymer on a trip to Foxwoods a year after his win in a gas station convenience store of all places. Just a basic nice guy.
Funniest moment of this tourny was when Greg was being applauded , sheiky was sitting down doing a mad hand gesture haha live on video for everyone to see.
Okay I'll see you all in 5 years when this goes viral.
I watched this at 11 years old lol always one of my favorite players
I'm glad That Raymer shut up to Mike Matusow
Very much a gentleman, skillful and lucky.
Love the days where not everyone tanks on a decision for 5 minutes
Magic of editing for TV
Hughes didn’t realize he would win with an Ace as well to counterfeit the 5’s haha
UA-cam 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.
Raymer was a pretty classy player. A bit strange but classy lol.
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
If someone walks into the train station looking like that, I’m taking the bus.
I imagine Greg’s glasses probably shook quite a lot of players at the Main Event that year.
4:19 just like that greg raymer doesn't even have to wait for the river card
Whether you realize it or not, Greg Raymer is a PHENOMENAL tournament Pro. He dominated the Heartland Poker Tour like no one else.
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.
Raymer was given free unlimited rebuys. Very easy to win with unlimited rebuys.
Greg is really an excellent and intelligent player.........I've watched a couple interviews of him talking about tournament strategy. It was some of the best advice I have ever heard..............
yo share the link!! lol
If that uber-fish with his flush draw had not called Greg's all-in. Greg would have won back-to-back titles.
Back-to-back in a WSOP feild that large would have been incomprehensible 😮
My man Dan what a great run...
1:21 pulls out black book and writes Mike's name in there. You just made the list, Mike
He writes “Seat one is a jerk and has bigger cojones than me”
Was always a much better player than Moneymaker. Love Greg Raymer.
Raymer is a likeable guy.
Yes, he played well. He also RAN golden
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.
Love this new series of the winners :)
Dude is literally sitting there with a 64 oz soda. Lol.
This was my favorite event so far
Arieh makes himself look like a real punk 🤦♂️ and imagine complaining about how you are running when you made it to the final 3 of the main event 😂😂 Raymer on the other hand was a class act.
no class
Raymer didn't get easy hands . He earned it the entire way. Now Jamie Gold had the hottest run of cards that I've ever seen. Gold actually blew that 12 million in less than 2 months in high stakes poker against real pros
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 😂
Look how matusow looks around for approval after he makes fun of him.
Thank you for busting me mike
11:43 Back when people understood why Raymer shouted "Presto!"
One of my favorite poker players!! 🇵🇹👍🥂
Kind of surprised when Raymer said he was more worried about the other guy more than David Williams who made it to heads up with him just made a bad read on the last one but David Williams said he was going to let people make mistakes and punish them, Dan Harrington was there but I dont know if he was talking about just the last 3 people but either way I would be kind of intimidated if I was sitting at a table with Dan Harrington and David Williams!!
Nice one sentence.
Someone make me understand David William's call in the end lol
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
Raymer vs Matusow .... still my y favorite and the greatest WSOP rivalry for a main event.
Remember the Big game show where Hellmuth called David Williams, "the biggest calling station". Watch the last hand please.
can't remember if going all in with position on flop (or not) for 3 pots in a single raised pot was normal back then by now, but seems like it sure wasn't. we also don't get to see whatever exact dynamic was going on between these 2, nor raymer vs rest of table entirely either (we do see some hands from this table obviously).
Looking back on this, the Moneymaker win and a few others it just proves it’s better to be lucky than good. Sure it takes some know how to get that far, but so much rides on luck.
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.
6:52 that woman did not want snake eyes to win
She was devastated. I wonder why. Thanks for pointing this out. "good eye"
Wife's reaction is the best part - I hope they are still in love.
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.
I am the lucky one to have gotten the chance to play final table 4 handed with Greg in a small tournament recently.
Wish ESPN did the World Series. It was so much more entertaining.
@11:24 An ace would give him the winning hand too.
One day mike will figure out the pro shouldn’t be so happy with a coin flip vs an amateur player. Or maybe not…
Mikes call with 9s7s cost him the main event and set Raymer up for the win percentage wise he was behind also. To call of your stack with a pair of 9s and no draws is horrible
Mike the mouth bragging about his faith in his reads during the AJ vs 97s hand but he didn't realize Raymer was the favorite on the flop with 2 overs, the flush draw and 3 backdoor straight draws. If Mike correctly put him on a flush draw with 2 overs then he should've folded bc he would've known he was a slight dog to win the hand even tho he was ahead on the flop. Strong math Mike.
You guys should listen to his Poker Stories podcast. He's truly brilliant and one of the most intelligent poker players I've ever seen.
You got to give it to Mike the mouth with calling there, he thought he had nothing turns out he had two overs and the diamond draw and for Mike to put most of his chips in looking for the knock out sometimes 9s hold up there. He got big kahunas not little ones apparently!
Mike gets better nowadays :)
Bad call with 9-7!
The quantity of chips on the table is hilarious
Back when poker was epic
Man Williams didn't even take any time to attempt to put Raymer on any type of range on the final hand. He snap called every street without any pause for concern.
“Whoever wins is considered the best in the world”
Nah, poker is one of the only games where winning the world championship has no real bearing on your “ranking” in the eyes of others.
One of the best winners ever but so lucky in several spots that would have changed whole tournament
It takes a tiny set of cajones to win the main!
Very hard to believe Greg is only in his 30s in this. He'd fold AA before he'd lay down a piece of pie.
Do one on Darvin Moon
No
There’s no footage shy of the last two tables 🤣
Great memories. ✌️👊
Matusow called for a 2 and got one lmao
The girls face at 6:52 is classic!
Raymer scared the Opposition with his Reptile Glasses !
Raymer won every coin flip. That's how he won.
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?? 🤔
Is that why they call pocket 5’s presto?
i always wondered who killed mike the mouth ! he was never the same guy after this he took his soul
The way he destroyed mike then went on to win is classic.
Funny i never hear about mike anymore.
Edit: just looked up mike. He posted 18 mins ago hes out of the main event already.
Incredibly lucky
why am i here i dont know how to play poker
Because it's a great game and you're curious
Raymer on god mode! wow how many people did he eliminate!
David Williams gave Raymer the quickest and easiest WSOP wins when down to heads up. He was terrible
It was a super great run out for 88 and williams had a house too and i can somewhat understand that he called him ( it was quick yeah ) but i think every poker player been there not beliving a guy who keeps having it you want to catch that mofo bluffing but what do i know xD
Never knew Alex Jones won the WSOP🤨
LMAO, raymer has better hair
Arieh... Bad manners and bad loser. So glad he got knocked out with his 99.
He ate the competition.
6:15 Eric Persson from hustler sessions? Isn't that him?
So confident he is with his glasses hahshah
The ego shown by players throughout this clip is insane. It's so wreckless & counterproductive in a field of 7,000+ players. Just play the game without the bullsh*t. Its the reserved guy who usually wins!
Jamie Gold says "Hold my beer."
Williams great chef
Ran very lucky but we'll deserved solid play and moves deserved the honour 👌
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.
he ran amazing, never had a real decision.
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
15:57 me looking into the lizard enclosure
I like this Glenn Hughes type...
Oldest looking 39-year-old in history.