Between Triton and PokerGO's broadcasts, televised poker has never been better. We all love the familiar TV pros from the early-mid 2000's, but modern tournament broadcasts are infinitely more interesting to watch.
No one deserved it more than Raymer. Handled getting berated by mike the mouth, handled his bad beats well, was gracious in his victories. Polite and a gentleman throughout. Thats good karma for you!
I dont know about that - For Dan Harrington to make it to the final table 2 years in a row with fields of 890 and 2300 is harder than winning the tournament once.......
@@samiam7342Raymer came in 25th the following year; in a field of over 5,600 players. Him outright winning one main event and placing high on the following main event may be just as impressive.
@@ryancooke4028 GGPoker's game of Gold comes to mind. He's still competitive there, obviously, but generally pretty chill. Nothing compared to here, anyway. :)
Watching the world series of poker main event will never be the same... The editing of these shows in the commentary from norm and lon will be sorely missed😢
Yeah, no doubt. I think that era died somewhere around 2008. It was so awesome watching these episodes back in the day. Never forget, Raymer nearly took it again in 2005.
Great example of situational awareness. The two big stacks, both LAG players involved in tons of pots. Lot of chips out there, and they'll only keep going with a premium. Using his image to his advantage to the max... Legend...
Played with Raymer many times, mostly before this event. Coolered him in a satellite with KK vs QQ for the main event at the Foxwoods 2002 poker finals. Harrington is someone I remember from the early days at the chessboard. He was one of the strongest players in New England in the early 1970s. Back then, as little more than a novice, I never dreamt I would be playing master level in less than ten years and would doubtless have met him had he not left New England and turned to poker.
12:14 - Yeah, I agree. The game has changed since then, but today William's with 55 was supposed to shove and Arieh would've called him with AK. That hand was designed for Arieh to lose - unless William's fold pre-flop.
It's crazy to think back that even though everyone made a big deal about Jamie Gold's chip-count going to the FT in 2006, he actually had a slightly smaller % of chips in play than Raymer had here. Raymer has a hair over 32%, Gold had just under 31%
@@Aunini I think an actually simpler explanation is just physical logistics of the time. Because of the massive jump in entrants, the WSOP didn't have the super-high denomination chips the tournament needed. This meant that while Gold's stack was smaller-by-%, it was VISUALLY enormous. Today, bets that in 2006 were still multiple massive stacks are only 1-2 chips. This meant that Gold's stack just looked bigger/better on TV and was easier build the "big stack"-narrative to get viewers to latch onto.
@@Mirvana yeah, that 2006 chip sprawl was 😍 They also screwed up when chipping up some of the 5k chips so 2 million chips just appeared out of thìn air
You're right Raymer is a class act, I met him in 2006 and again in 2007 working the WSOP at the RIO, Josh was just the opposite of Raymer Josh is classless.
@@darrenlesueur4785 Luck is a part of playing poker and being a dealer and seeing lucky streaks is a part of poker, I'm sure you know what a kill pot is, I was dealing 4/8 limit poker and this old guy that would always cry to me I never give him hands won two pots in a row turning it into a kill 8/16 limit Texas Hold'em well he was playing his Rush and other people would raise it but he always called with his crap cards and he kept the kill on 8/16 and in 25 mins almost my whole down he won every pot until a new dealer came in, he asked the dealer coming in let me deal one more hand, I dealt it and he won again the other players was saying get me out of the dealers box after that last one more hand the new dealer came in and he lost the kill after 25 minutes he won over 500 dollars in 25 mins. pure luck.
@dyi620 Then, this year was a mistake to me. The most entries in WSOP ME history, and they don't make everyone a millionaire at the FT. They make 1st $12.1 million to beat Jamie's year, that's fine, but make 9th $1 million.
Seeing Josh Arieh and David Williams here after watching Game of Gold makes me admire them much more and proves that Poker IS indeed skill and not luck in the long run.
@@a.f.johnston6753 while I can see where you would think that I’m certainly not Josh and to bolster my prior comment I will say that there were games that ran around David because he was such a big fish.
Evidently you missed David Williams on MasterChef. He was a blubbering, whiny crybaby who blamed everyone else for his mistakes and had zero accountability. Total loser.
It’s funny because people give all these guys that have won the tournaments crap about how lucky they were over the years but since David Williams got second, it’s like people forget. You go back and watch from like day three. The dude was literally all in for his tournament life about 16 times and never lost once
Till this day I still have no idea why David called Greg down to the river like that…David looked mad that entire hand like he wasn’t gonna let him push him around and then was like oh well I lost 🤷♂️
Dan Harrington’s bluff may be my favorite hand of all time. I love Dan Harrington. Always my favorite player. And he played that table. “Those are rags Dan”.
It’s impressive how deep of a run David Williams made considering he played purely off instinct and never took more than 5 seconds to make a decision or to even think about what his opponent could have.
And they say poker es about skill. In any tournament a player can’t win without luck in flips or then he is against a higher pair or a better kicker,. Those kind of hands are the most important because they involve the most amount of chips
I am no seasoned poker pro or veteran, but all throughout that final hand, Raymer just screamed pocket pair to me. I guess Williams thought he was bluffing repeatedly at the pot (which I could understand that thought process), but Raymer had played consistently well with quality hands throughout the tournament.
I love how 20 yrs ago a dark check was a genius move..in a 3b pot as the original opener you literally lead flop 0% how is a dark check any different than checking after seeing flop..2004aments lol
Dan Harrington is amazing many years ago 2005 2006 a site he was playing at before all the bs today programs and such he was in a tournament im guessing the bye in was 500 or more i don't remember what happened pre flop but i do know the other player after that flop kept betting dan call turn came guy bet again dan called then the guy jams river an all in dan thought about this for a little bit not to long and called with ace king high it cripples him pretty bad or its all his chips if hes wrong it also wasn't a rebuy is ace king was good it was a monster guy missed a draw it was an incredible call
Can we go back to these type of broadcasts plz? These were the best!
No kidding
Between Triton and PokerGO's broadcasts, televised poker has never been better. We all love the familiar TV pros from the early-mid 2000's, but modern tournament broadcasts are infinitely more interesting to watch.
This was the apex of poker television. Just pure production brilliance.
Poker will never be this cool again. 😎
yep I lived thru it, I still play alot now but nothing compared to the 2003 to 2007. EVERYONE u knew played it was insane
Or as soft
No one deserved it more than Raymer. Handled getting berated by mike the mouth, handled his bad beats well, was gracious in his victories. Polite and a gentleman throughout.
Thats good karma for you!
I dont know about that - For Dan Harrington to make it to the final table 2 years in a row with fields of 890 and 2300 is harder than winning the tournament once.......
@@samiam7342 disagree
If karma exists how does Arieh finish as high as 3rd...shouldnt he be about 377th?
@@CowSaysMooMoo agree with that
@@samiam7342Raymer came in 25th the following year; in a field of over 5,600 players. Him outright winning one main event and placing high on the following main event may be just as impressive.
I only watched to see Arieh go bust. What a diuche.
Back then, yeah. Nowadays not anymore :)
@@DocTighteh he’s still a douche just older so less prominent. Watch him on game of gold he’s not much different
@@DocTightcan you steer me toward a video where he shows some class and dignity? Would be a nice palate cleanser from this
@@ryancooke4028 GGPoker's game of Gold comes to mind. He's still competitive there, obviously, but generally pretty chill. Nothing compared to here, anyway. :)
Watching the world series of poker main event will never be the same... The editing of these shows in the commentary from norm and lon will be sorely missed😢
Yeah, no doubt. I think that era died somewhere around 2008. It was so awesome watching these episodes back in the day. Never forget, Raymer nearly took it again in 2005.
2010 was the last ME with these production values; 2011 was nowhere close, especially after black friday 😕
@@FatherofMan25 definitely a memorable awesome run for raymer
Arieh so rude to Raymer, right after Raymer complimented him
Raymer was lucky but such a gentleman throughout.
Dan Harrington raising it up with the 62o and getting through AQo and A2s is so sick, such a great hand even though it didn't see a flop
Great example of situational awareness. The two big stacks, both LAG players involved in tons of pots. Lot of chips out there, and they'll only keep going with a premium. Using his image to his advantage to the max... Legend...
The 3bet squeeze was a new move in those days
Dan had a super conservative and safe image...he had a license to steal. Even jacks or queens would have a hard time calling in that spot.
Amazing nit gameplay
Played with Raymer many times, mostly before this event. Coolered him in a satellite with KK vs QQ for the main event at the Foxwoods 2002 poker finals. Harrington is someone I remember from the early days at the chessboard. He was one of the strongest players in New England in the early 1970s. Back then, as little more than a novice, I never dreamt I would be playing master level in less than ten years and would doubtless have met him had he not left New England and turned to poker.
Two of the best things, poker and chess... And in New England, during that time, with these people!
Super awesome I'm glad to see these being posted to TH-cam... So much nostalgia... Thank you pokergo
So cool to watch this years later. Everyone has grown up(especially Josh) but Raymer's dominance and absolute class shines through. Legendary...
So, day 1 of 2005 tomorrow? 😁😁😁
Correct! Link already available at the end of this episode ;)
@@PokerGO Nice!
Heck yah
Let’s go!
PASS THE SUGAR!
Arieh: "how can you call with that hand"
Also Arieh: *calls big bet with gutshot straight draw and gets lucky* "SKILL"
12:14 - Yeah, I agree. The game has changed since then, but today William's with 55 was supposed to shove and Arieh would've called him with AK. That hand was designed for Arieh to lose - unless William's fold pre-flop.
dude is a first class schmuck. we learned that in this WSOP.
He actually became a high stakes crusher. Arieh is 99th on the all time money list
What a great time it was without smartphones and AI-solvers
It's crazy to think back that even though everyone made a big deal about Jamie Gold's chip-count going to the FT in 2006, he actually had a slightly smaller % of chips in play than Raymer had here. Raymer has a hair over 32%, Gold had just under 31%
I think part of it though was how he'd had the chip lead for about the entire second half of the tournament 📈
@@Aunini I think an actually simpler explanation is just physical logistics of the time. Because of the massive jump in entrants, the WSOP didn't have the super-high denomination chips the tournament needed. This meant that while Gold's stack was smaller-by-%, it was VISUALLY enormous. Today, bets that in 2006 were still multiple massive stacks are only 1-2 chips. This meant that Gold's stack just looked bigger/better on TV and was easier build the "big stack"-narrative to get viewers to latch onto.
@@Mirvana yeah, that 2006 chip sprawl was 😍
They also screwed up when chipping up some of the 5k chips so 2 million chips just appeared out of thìn air
Raymer is my favourite world champion ever. So much class.
Those glasses made him a memorable poker player. Winning the Main event made him a champion. Seems like a very nice fellow.
You're right Raymer is a class act, I met him in 2006 and again in 2007 working the WSOP at the RIO, Josh was just the opposite of Raymer Josh is classless.
raymer ran really lucky early in that final table
@@darrenlesueur4785 Luck is a part of playing poker and being a dealer and seeing lucky streaks is a part of poker, I'm sure you know what a kill pot is, I was dealing 4/8 limit poker and this old guy that would always cry to me I never give him hands won two pots in a row turning it into a kill 8/16 limit Texas Hold'em well he was playing his Rush and other people would raise it but he always called with his crap cards and he kept the kill on 8/16 and in 25 mins almost my whole down he won every pot until a new dealer came in, he asked the dealer coming in let me deal one more hand, I dealt it and he won again the other players was saying get me out of the dealers box after that last one more hand the new dealer came in and he lost the kill after 25 minutes he won over 500 dollars in 25 mins. pure luck.
Yes! 2004 My First Wsop event Live!
this coverage is gold. so many humble, class act players.
And Josh Arieh
A10 vs AK, runner runner straight for Raymer, he was destined to win it, never seen anyone get so lucky
2009 Main Event-Joe Cada
That’s pretty close as well regarding luck.
watch the Jamie Gold year and you'll reconsider
McKeehen comes to mind
My friend, people get this lucky ten times a night in every single casino poker room. Luckier!
Greg's run is what dreams are made of. Then we met Jamie Gold in 2006 lmao
@dyi620 Then, this year was a mistake to me. The most entries in WSOP ME history, and they don't make everyone a millionaire at the FT. They make 1st $12.1 million to beat Jamie's year, that's fine, but make 9th $1 million.
Raymer was so cool and nice. Jamie Gold was … well not.
Seeing Josh Arieh and David Williams here after watching Game of Gold makes me admire them much more and proves that Poker IS indeed skill and not luck in the long run.
David Williams is a fish man. Josh is a great player.
@@POKERBEAST25 - This sounds exactly like something Josh Arieh would say while hiding behind his POKERBEAST25 TH-cam handle.
So poker is a game of skill? Really breaking ground there dude.
@@a.f.johnston6753 while I can see where you would think that I’m certainly not Josh and to bolster my prior comment I will say that there were games that ran around David because he was such a big fish.
Evidently you missed David Williams on MasterChef. He was a blubbering, whiny crybaby who blamed everyone else for his mistakes and had zero accountability. Total loser.
I love it when a players says I can't believe he call with pocket 5's. In my book a pair beats Ace high all the time.
it's almost as if the 5s have a 7%-10% edge depending on suits and mucked cards 😁
If he wants to complain to his rail, I get it, but he was out of line with some of the other comments he made.
Typically, you don't want to call a raise out of position with 55 if you have less than 40bb in your stack. Bad move.
Some players just don’t get it
David Williams was set mining for a 3rd of his stack. He had a 1 in 8 chance of flopping a set. If he doesn’t hit, he has to fold to an Arieh bet.
Greg was such a class act. The game could have used more players like him back then.
Unlike say Arieh.
If everyone was a class act no one would have watched. Characters bring eyes to the game and grows it.
@@NorthDT Hi Josh.
@philipjaffe8788 the name is Eric, twinkle toes
It’s funny because people give all these guys that have won the tournaments crap about how lucky they were over the years but since David Williams got second, it’s like people forget. You go back and watch from like day three. The dude was literally all in for his tournament life about 16 times and never lost once
Marcel hanging out with Devilfish on the rail. 13:18
RIP
28:36 Williams goes for the jinx and Raymer successfully deflects and denies the jinx
Always loved Scotty Nygen. A great poker player and personality in the poker community.
Harrington's books were the best!
Josh has grown up tremendously since 2004.
It's such a contrast to see how poker was played in 2004 vs now. Greg really sun ran, mixed with good play.
These are great, please do more Poker Go!
Amazing final table. Love watching David Williams game.
03&04 WSOP changed poker forever
So happy that Raymer won!
26:20 - split pot if there is a 3 OR A 5
David Williams is underrated. He's a great card player.
Till this day I still have no idea why David called Greg down to the river like that…David looked mad that entire hand like he wasn’t gonna let him push him around and then was like oh well I lost 🤷♂️
Harrington, Kruk, Williams all class acts
I love your channel, will you upload all seasons of highstakes poker as well?
Love to warch those and joined for them
2004 WORLD SERIES OF POKER CHAMPION AT THE FINAL BINION'S HORSESHOE IN DOWNTOWN LAS VEGAS, NEVADA GREG RAYMER 41:38 41:39 41:49 41:54
2004 WORLD SERIES OF POKER CHAMPION AT THE FINAL BINION'S HORSESHOE IN DOWNTOWN LAS VEGAS, NEVADA GREG RAYMER 41:38 41:39 41:49 41:54
Dan Harrington’s bluff may be my favorite hand of all time. I love Dan Harrington. Always my favorite player. And he played that table. “Those are rags Dan”.
i was born in the wrong time something seriously wrong with my generation. so much elegance twenty years ago.
how can you not like Dan Harrington
amazing show...great people :D so much fun to watch the oldies
I couldn't be happier to see Arieh get busted. What an absolute tool.
It’s impressive how deep of a run David Williams made considering he played purely off instinct and never took more than 5 seconds to make a decision or to even think about what his opponent could have.
When poker coverage was fun.
Watch the recent wsop final tables, it’s hoods up and slow motion movement 😂
How times change
Readings dans book set right now. Cool to see the hands he talks about.
I remember watching this 20 years ago. Raymer was a class act.
What a gracious and humble winner. Like jerry yang in 07. Congrats to raymer such a well deserved winner
Amazing how Josh Arieh has changed for the better I think. Poker is humbling.
Arieh was the best player at the final table, he was card dead for much of it which ultimately doomed him.
I just happened to look up Al Krux and couldn’t believe what happened to the guy… 🤦🏻♂️
The final hand was incredible!
well deserved champ
deserved? just lucky guy haha
Remember watching this on Bravo back in the day. The days before the final 9 became human billboards.
99 never seems to hold against AQ, down the stretch at the Main Event. Whether Ivey vs Moneymaker, Arieh vs Raymer, or Jarvis vs Mizrachi.
Al Krux’s daughter 😍😍😍
Never seen someone run as good as Raymer dude smashed every flop
See Jamie Gold or even Peter Eastgate's run from 2 bbs
23:20 Matt Dean eliimintation followed by 4 wsop suited employees just fired carrying their last belongings in a box.
Saying that getting to back-to-back final tables is more impressive than winning back-to-back titles is kind of wild
when Chan won back to back there was like 150 people in the field its just a numbers thing
Still hilarious after all these years seeing Williams make a dumbass check in dark and celebrate like he's a god
These blinds were insane vs their stakes.
36:15. Bust this mf
The mf with the "small cojones" as the mouth said took them down one by one, he'd been destined to win it all! 😄
@@MrKh4O yeah, winning tt vs aa then at vs ak must have helped ^^
And they say poker es about skill. In any tournament a player can’t win without luck in flips or then he is against a higher pair or a better kicker,. Those kind of hands are the most important because they involve the most amount of chips
No one says luck isnt a factor
Is this the tournament where Arieh earned that cheesedik nickname?
He is defa cheesedik
8:19
These guys just sun runned the WHOLE TIME. 🤣, AT > AK, TT > AA 🤣
Gotta catch your 2 outs and win races from way behind to win these tournaments.
People say Raymer was super lucky, so was Krux on the final two tables. Well til he busted 🤣🤣🤣
When humans played, not algorythms
7:46 Yep, just as I thought in 2005. Al Krux’s daughter is fine AF. Lol.
Would like to see some commentary from Sam Farha.
I am no seasoned poker pro or veteran, but all throughout that final hand, Raymer just screamed pocket pair to me. I guess Williams thought he was bluffing repeatedly at the pot (which I could understand that thought process), but Raymer had played consistently well with quality hands throughout the tournament.
Crazy how many punts there was at the final table. These guys battled for days to throw their chance away on really marginal plays.
I love how 20 yrs ago a dark check was a genius move..in a 3b pot as the original opener you literally lead flop 0% how is a dark check any different than checking after seeing flop..2004aments lol
Imagine being a lucky box, never experienced that
I bet Josh Arieh gets beat up a lot in the parking lot of his local casino in ATL
I'm so happy Greg Raymer won.
Now he can afford to buy some food.
I really need to learn how to win 20%’s, no wonder I don’t any tournaments!
Come on Rosie!
Matt Dean ICM Suicide
true story
What does ICM stand for?
@@quiggle78Independent Chip Model.
Maybe if one person in Al Krux’s family had a freaking job he wouldn’t of had to play poker for food
Dan Harrington is amazing many years ago 2005 2006 a site he was playing at before all the bs today programs and such he was in a tournament im guessing the bye in was 500 or more i don't remember what happened pre flop but i do know the other player after that flop kept betting dan call turn came guy bet again dan called then the guy jams river an all in dan thought about this for a little bit not to long and called with ace king high it cripples him pretty bad or its all his chips if hes wrong it also wasn't a rebuy is ace king was good it was a monster guy missed a draw it was an incredible call
What a horrible play by Al Krux when he went bust.
Wow a lot of money but I only enjoy to watch 🤣😂
It's shocking that David Williams went from "Mr. Cool" at the WSOP to whiny crybaby on MasterChef. I lost all respect for him.
Back when you had to play or read a book to learn. Now days every cack knocker w a phone has endless resources to tell him what to do.
20:14 Special award for the Worst Acting Performance in Las Vegas Poker history
2 suck outs in a row. Nice
I just bought some stock in pork ribs!!!!
Raymer on a HEEETER
David was played stupid on the last hand. I guess he got tired or something.
Josh arieh no class
Josh A is so tilting
If the gods want you to win, youll win. It has nothing to do with the cards
It's a shame that poker is about 70% luck, but that's the name of the game.
So its called the "70% luck Game"?
@@tomascech6772we can bet that he's winning at this game 😂
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josh arieh was a bit of an arogant player
David vs “Goliath”
Both literally, and figuratively