Gotta say Sam Farha is a phenomenal player and excels in all facets of the game, he also showed some great class and respect at the end...a true master of poker
The event that started the poker boom! The production values may be well behind what we see now, but I had forgotten just how good a job ESPN did at conveying the sheer drama of this classic tournament! The personal stories and commentary made the game accessible to a whole generation of people who knew nothing about it. And I love the “shootout at the OK Corral’ style music they used back then.
I don't even watch anything anymore from WPT or the WSOP. Maybe Hustler Casino or Texas Card House to see the high-stakes oddballs punt off. Otherwise, it's just people tanking for 30 seconds before acting. Of course, Mike Sexton was a big part of the WPT along with Vince. It wasn't the same after he passed on.
I love how they say Jason Lester “takes his time” and “is very deliberate.” Dude is taking roughly 20-30 seconds on big decisions. If they only knew….2023 players taking 12 minutes collectively to play standard pots. Today’s poker is unwatchable.
Agreed. I can no longer watch streams or videos on poker. I'll watch vlogs like Negreanu and Matusow, but poker today is so boring, and the players are like robots. Just not the same anymore. Very few young players that are worth rooting for anymore as they are all lumped into the same category and personality.
@@Pokeball01 agree it not as exciting to watch, but the game was bound to advance, players getting better, there not playing to entertain you there playing for money.
Good times, good editing, good music, good characters. Back when poker was portrayed with style. Days when the game was still fresh and not yet maximally optimized for by every nerd on earth.
Yeah, poker's totally ruined now. I know people will strongly disagree with me there, that's fine, these are opinions after all lol.... but poker now is basically dominated by extremely intelligent, highly optimized, mathematical, statistical, and logical phenoms, and you'll never see another Moneymaker type of deep tournament run again because of it.... that's what I mean when I say poker's ruined now, I mean high stakes tournament poker, where the average player might really have a chance....
This video came on in the background while I was doing something else, and I heard them allude to the fact that this was Chris Moneymaker's first tournament. I knew then exactly what was playing, and can't wait to watch it all again. Classic!
For us that were mid teens from middle of 1999 through like 2006ish, this library of all these "Classic-ish" poker games have just as much emotion dominating hype while watching, as it did when brand new first time airing 🤘🏼😎
It's amazing how much the game has changed since then. Only 840 players in 2003. This year there were 5234!! Also, the high variance style is long gone. Poker is the greatest game on Earth and this tournament was the one that changed the game forever!
What a difference just 20 years makes in poker. People are so much more aggressive now. I remember watching this back in the day and being absolutely enthralled.
Is it just me, or does Old School poker (WSOP) remind anyone else of how old school WWF (wrestling) used to be? Soooo entertaining and better than its current counterpart 😅
Notice that players like Harrington were the only ones using standard raise sizes. Most of them were all over the place. Same thing if you watch 2004. You could definitely pick up tells by sizing.
Thank you so much for this I've been looking for it for a while. Could you please do the exact same thing for WSOP Main Event 2004 and 2005 and so on? I would really really really appreciate it :D
2003: a bunch of guys with shotguns put a box of money on the table nowdays: a bunch of chicks put a silver plate of money on the table Poker changed so much :P
'03 nice mix, young Boomers and Gen X guys playing cards...real personalities and great Poker. What a streak from Moneymaker, he played great, but all his beats were good, unreal win for him.
I have never seen a player get incredibly lucky over and over again in one tournament like Moneymaker did in this main event. I don’t think I saw a single clip of him being on the losing end of a bad beat or suck out except for that tiny double up of Harrington at the FT.
20 years ago people actually talked to each other. Today everyone is staring at their stupid phones. Both at the poker table and everywhere else. Fkin sad world.
You do know this is severely edited down right? This was fully taped until 2009. They even said around 1:21:30 they said they have been at it for over 11 hours for the final table.
So many huge spots in the Main Event. Two pair never felt so small when you get jammed on Day 4 with one card to come. The river has decided so many futures, I call it "Doc Brown" in my home game.
Jamie Gold’s win had a similar run of luck. Kept calling with any two cards and didn’t have to bluff because he’d hit every flop. On the off chance he’d have to bluff, he’d lose every time. Neither played that great, they just got extremely lucky.
People still moaning about Moneymaker being lucky... He showed a lot of guts in key spots, ie the K7 hand. He didn't sit back and wait for it like half of the table, and he didn't go nuts like the other half; he went after it.
I don't think Chris really made any totally terrible decisions. It's much easier to judge when you get to see the opponents' hole cards. Did he run incredible? Yes. Was his play terrible? Absolutely not. You also have to remember that Farha is probably VPIPing at like 60%. You have to play back at that type of player. If you just wait for hands they'll run you over and when you finally make a hand you won't get paid off.
@@colintimp1372 Absolutely. And this was in the days before there was such a wealth of information available. I mean, there was Brunson's book, Caro's book of tells, and maybe a book on pot odds. Where you'd get those books from is another thing. Your local bookstore wouldn't have them, nor would your library. Ebay was in its early days, so maybe there. Poker magazines only started in full swing after Moneymaker's win. Twoplustwo was around, but people still weren't really using the internet that much, nor were they using forums, and it was a small obscure site - you'd have to get lucky to stumble across it. You were just left sort of aimless in regards to learning.
There's another great video you can find from a few months back of him being punched by a poker dealer in Texas. Farha is infamous for his terrible treatment of poker dealers.
1:02:17- not sure what action dan has won lifetime, but his cousin Padraig as of 2023 had 31 million in life time earnings... not too shabby either. LOL
I thought I would come on a poker site to ask this burning question - in my FB memories from 5 years ago, after 12 years as a poker dealer in our local casino, I dealt such a bizarre hand that I want to know if anyone can tell me the odds on this: FLOP - Trip 6's, TURN, the 4th SIX!!! I have also put a Royal Flush on the table - once. I also dealt Pocket Aces, Kings, and Queens to three players and proceeded to put one of each on the flop..... Those were the good old days! I retired over two years ago, but I do miss pulling stunts like this~
Seen this a bunch over the years but always wondered why Sam went all in on the flop on the final hand. Why not just call the raise and go from there? He had at least 2.3 mil left after he lead on the flop even if he commits another 500k on turn and river and loses he still has 1.8ish to fight with
Tomer said he’d shave his legs for $2m my man hasn’t been able to see his own knees since he was two years old and he thinks he’s gonna shave his legs 🤣
The current poker players are nameless faceless all in robots with no personalities if you removed the announcers watching poker would be like watching grass grow . You had a great game with people who talked to one another and ruined it.
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Gotta say Sam Farha is a phenomenal player and excels in all facets of the game, he also showed some great class and respect at the end...a true master of poker
I can’t believe he was 43-44 there.. he looks way older lol gotta love Sammy
He's great other than he is very cheap I hear. Tipping 1$ in high stakes cash games. Only what I hear though....
@@jimmymason6893that doesn’t matter people ain’t obligated to do anything
Plus he looks like a proper goodfella
The event that started the poker boom! The production values may be well behind what we see now, but I had forgotten just how good a job ESPN did at conveying the sheer drama of this classic tournament! The personal stories and commentary made the game accessible to a whole generation of people who knew nothing about it. And I love the “shootout at the OK Corral’ style music they used back then.
Yep the most famous poker tournament of all time no comparison.
Poker 20 years ago looks like so much fun, actual interactions instead of silent robots
I don't even watch anything anymore from WPT or the WSOP. Maybe Hustler Casino or Texas Card House to see the high-stakes oddballs punt off. Otherwise, it's just people tanking for 30 seconds before acting. Of course, Mike Sexton was a big part of the WPT along with Vince. It wasn't the same after he passed on.
The entire world was this way too. Now all robots and NPC’s everywhere
Because everything is a "Tell" now lmao 😂
Even the production aspect of it is better then it is now ! This was awesome to relive a lot of pros had a chance to take this one down
Everything was better 20 years ago
I love how they say Jason Lester “takes his time” and “is very deliberate.” Dude is taking roughly 20-30 seconds on big decisions. If they only knew….2023 players taking 12 minutes collectively to play standard pots. Today’s poker is unwatchable.
Agreed. I can no longer watch streams or videos on poker. I'll watch vlogs like Negreanu and Matusow, but poker today is so boring, and the players are like robots. Just not the same anymore. Very few young players that are worth rooting for anymore as they are all lumped into the same category and personality.
Sums up today's joke society in fact @@Pokeball01
And Farha takes 3 minutes but understandably to decide the fate of the championship.
@@Pokeball01 agree it not as exciting to watch, but the game was bound to advance, players getting better, there not playing to entertain you there playing for money.
Good times, good editing, good music, good characters. Back when poker was portrayed with style. Days when the game was still fresh and not yet maximally optimized for by every nerd on earth.
Yeah, poker's totally ruined now. I know people will strongly disagree with me there, that's fine, these are opinions after all lol.... but poker now is basically dominated by extremely intelligent, highly optimized, mathematical, statistical, and logical phenoms, and you'll never see another Moneymaker type of deep tournament run again because of it.... that's what I mean when I say poker's ruined now, I mean high stakes tournament poker, where the average player might really have a chance....
I really enjoy poker on tv in this era. 2003 WSOP got me to start playing
it ruined my life. I was 15 and became hooked, now im 35 broke and alone. variance
ESPN won't talk about that, it destroys people, it's a sick sick game, they just promote it like the "any man" can win. @@donut5143
@@donut5143”it ruined my life” no it didn’t, you did by not having a decent grasp of bankroll management playa
This video came on in the background while I was doing something else, and I heard them allude to the fact that this was Chris Moneymaker's first tournament. I knew then exactly what was playing, and can't wait to watch it all again. Classic!
Still one of the nicest bluffs I’ve seen. Moneymaker vs Farha heads up. Instant classic.
Lester was a cool, calm fella. I was rooting for him that year.
"You did by God! You did it!" His Dad hugging his kid after turning $40 into 2mill and becoming a world champion was awesome.
This buy in was 40$?
@@KEEPlT1K for Chris Moneymaker it was. He got in via satellite.
@@KEEPlT1Kno the buy in is always 10k
@@KEEPlT1KHe won a qualifier tournament so his buy in was a lot less than the actual buy in, he won his ticket to the main event
@@KEEPlT1K - He won his seat by winning an online satellite tournament that only cost him $40 to enter....
For us that were mid teens from middle of 1999 through like 2006ish, this library of all these "Classic-ish" poker games have just as much emotion dominating hype while watching, as it did when brand new first time airing 🤘🏼😎
It's amazing how much the game has changed since then. Only 840 players in 2003. This year there were 5234!! Also, the high variance style is long gone. Poker is the greatest game on Earth and this tournament was the one that changed the game forever!
There were 10,043 entries this year.
Old school poker tv, i love it!
I got into poker because of this ESPN series the summer of 03'
The beginning of the poker boom!
This First Time I Watched WSOP 2003 And Poker In General Randomly On Espn When I Was Young Still Watch 20 Years Later
I think Sammy is my GOAT old school gambler
Farha was by far the best poker player at the table.
Harrington was better, but was chronically short stacked at the final table. Farha was easily one of the best pot limit Omaha players of the time.
Man, that were great times to live in! 90s and 00s forever.
Phil Ivey had the unluckiest 3-4 hands before final 8 absolutely brilliant performance
Love looking back at the early days off televised poker.
The beginning of the glory days of poker. Beautiful
If Farha calls that early raise with the 22 and set mines he cracks both Lester and Harrington and this tournament turns out completely different.
If you zig when you should zag the multiverse will take care of you
If you call a 3-bet with 22, you are burning money.
"If"...
Only ever seen brief highlights of this. Brilliant.
Such a great rewatch. Thank you, PokerGO ! [And thank you RUclips Premium for no ads!]
What a difference just 20 years makes in poker. People are so much more aggressive now. I remember watching this back in the day and being absolutely enthralled.
This series you guys just published from 2003 WSOP IS AMAZING! Please bring us more!
More is coming! The 2004 Main Event starts tomorrow on our RUclips channel.
we're waiting@@PokerGO, 24hrs gone, tomorrow is here!
Theyre posting to try and keep up with GGpokers new series
bro why are you cheering, this was free until Poker GO locked it behind a paywall. Now they feed you little videos as a marketing ploy
Rest in Peace Amir 🙏
When poker was still poker.
And when men were actually men.
@@peternagy-im4be And candy cigarettes were still labeled "Candy Cigarettes"
Best final table of all time
THE best WSOP main event coverage on ESPN was 2003. 2nd place: 2005
R.I.P. Amir Vahedi he seemed like a good dude here.
What happened to him?
Complications from diabetes
"He'd take about 5 minutes, to make a 3 minute egg".
Best poker commentary ever......😂
Is it just me, or does Old School poker (WSOP) remind anyone else of how old school WWF (wrestling) used to be? Soooo entertaining and better than its current counterpart 😅
RIP Amir
43:13 Open shoving 2.5x pot out of position from the BB on that board against UTG+1's range. Man 2003 poker really was something else.
It's shocking how bad the "good" players were back then. Plus all of the posturing and cringey talk...
That guy was also a mega donk by today's standards though
Notice that players like Harrington were the only ones using standard raise sizes. Most of them were all over the place. Same thing if you watch 2004. You could definitely pick up tells by sizing.
@@andrehanderson "posturing and cringey talk" is a lot better television than silently tanking for 10 minutes
@@Fantasyremix I totally agree
Thank you so much for this I've been looking for it for a while. Could you please do the exact same thing for WSOP Main Event 2004 and 2005 and so on? I would really really really appreciate it :D
That's our goal this winter :) tell your friends!
I agree
@@PokerGO so you doing so you’re doing every World Series of poker then and a I love ❤poker
This is why i got into poker
2003: a bunch of guys with shotguns put a box of money on the table
nowdays: a bunch of chicks put a silver plate of money on the table
Poker changed so much :P
Bro it's all for show and it's fake money in both cases lol
'03 nice mix, young Boomers and Gen X guys playing cards...real personalities and great Poker. What a streak from Moneymaker, he played great, but all his beats were good, unreal win for him.
Finally! The one that started it all!
Sammy Farha is Such a GREAT NL Holden Player
Dan THE MAN Harrington! ♥
I have all his books. Always remember, especially in long-form tournaments: Tight is right.
Same! His books were the first books I ever read voluntarily. School made me hate reading, Dan made me love it! Thanks Dan! @@jasonbourneistreadstone
The Poker Booom Legendary era of poker
I have never seen a player get incredibly lucky over and over again in one tournament like Moneymaker did in this main event. I don’t think I saw a single clip of him being on the losing end of a bad beat or suck out except for that tiny double up of Harrington at the FT.
Wait until 2006 LOL!
Every tournament winner gets extremely lucky multiple times.
Jamie Gold had THE SICKEST run ever, it’s not even close.
Moneymaker played very well. Like the 33 hand against dutch boyd.
@@adyajlpas well esfandiari winning 18M
20 years ago people actually talked to each other.
Today everyone is staring at their stupid phones.
Both at the poker table and everywhere else.
Fkin sad world.
You do know this is severely edited down right? This was fully taped until 2009. They even said around 1:21:30 they said they have been at it for over 11 hours for the final table.
He changed the game. Ignited a wildfire.
Amazing. 20 years ago !
So many huge spots in the Main Event. Two pair never felt so small when you get jammed on Day 4 with one card to come. The river has decided so many futures, I call it "Doc Brown" in my home game.
Luckiest run of any poker player in any tournament ever. My god he got it in bad so many times and hit. Amazing. Blessed!
Jamie Gold’s win had a similar run of luck. Kept calling with any two cards and didn’t have to bluff because he’d hit every flop. On the off chance he’d have to bluff, he’d lose every time. Neither played that great, they just got extremely lucky.
wsop should do a classic main event, in addition to the Main, with these original starting stacks and blind structures from this era.
i'm curious... why?
I used to watch this all the time! Somewhere around 2010 i just stopped watching for some reason. I love the guitar strings intro.
I love that you have no clue what the blinds are...lol.
So Nostalgic
A wonderful and fun break from Poker Go giving us yet another Jeremy Ausmus, Jason Koon, etc. event. That got old a long time ago. Change it up!
People still moaning about Moneymaker being lucky... He showed a lot of guts in key spots, ie the K7 hand. He didn't sit back and wait for it like half of the table, and he didn't go nuts like the other half; he went after it.
He made bad decisions and got lucky. I wouldn't say " he went after it"
@@Alanaboo912 But you didn't say it, I did....
I don't think Chris really made any totally terrible decisions. It's much easier to judge when you get to see the opponents' hole cards. Did he run incredible? Yes. Was his play terrible? Absolutely not. You also have to remember that Farha is probably VPIPing at like 60%. You have to play back at that type of player. If you just wait for hands they'll run you over and when you finally make a hand you won't get paid off.
@@colintimp1372 Absolutely. And this was in the days before there was such a wealth of information available.
I mean, there was Brunson's book, Caro's book of tells, and maybe a book on pot odds. Where you'd get those books from is another thing. Your local bookstore wouldn't have them, nor would your library. Ebay was in its early days, so maybe there. Poker magazines only started in full swing after Moneymaker's win. Twoplustwo was around, but people still weren't really using the internet that much, nor were they using forums, and it was a small obscure site - you'd have to get lucky to stumble across it.
You were just left sort of aimless in regards to learning.
Everyone is saying how lucky Chris was but how many Aces did Farha get
The only expedition tour that guy is leading is to the all you can eat buffet.
The most famous poker tournament of all time.
Amir Vahedi was a very strong poker player. Strong . Just like his chest. Very strong.
Love moneymaker, humble and og crusher
Nostalgia alert!
i think Sammy got in his own head in the end
Everyone was so humble about their "skills" back then... 🤣
Who knew Chris Moneymaker’s dad was JR from the WWE 😂😂😂
1:28:27 It's a 5 of ♥️!
Chris Moneymaker wins the 2003 WSOP and $2.5 million!!
The jack high call on a881010 is hilarious
It's actually an ace high call. The jack doesn't play, he plays the board.
There is point if Farha doesn't have Ace it's a split pot, Farha didn't bet flop with Ace so it's had a point.
Okay Ellix Powers lol
A legendary main event. If there is a better poker phrase than amir’s “in order to live you must be willing to die” I need to hear it
I’d love to see a comparison of that bracelets value compared to the current main event bracelet
1:11:48 if you wanna see Sam Farha talk about how great he is
I dont
The GOAT
There's another great video you can find from a few months back of him being punched by a poker dealer in Texas. Farha is infamous for his terrible treatment of poker dealers.
Moneymaker just ran godlike lol
38:28 Sammy trolling Hellmuth:You are the best in the world :D
Fine. I'll watch die hard again, I mean WSOP 2003 coverage
2003 WSOP CHAMPION CHRIS MONEYMAKER 1:28:26
2003 WSOP CHAMPION CHRIS MONEYMAKER 1:28:26
why are you everywhere.
i like the cardboard box where they put the money. It looks like they just found the box on the street.
Lol yeah that was random
1:24:57 still the bluff of the century.
Everything was better 20 years ago 100%
Vehedi jamming 2x pot with 6 high on A9Q is mental
@christopherpaolino9607 still a massive punt
rest in peace Amir
I can’t believe so few people played the Main event back then. Now it’s disgusting how many people show up.
Why? The prize was so much small then with the smaller field.
Sam Farha looks like somecharacter from Sopranos...
1:02:17- not sure what action dan has won lifetime, but his cousin Padraig as of 2023 had 31 million in life time earnings... not too shabby either. LOL
I gotta know where to find the music that's played at 45:56.
SAME!!! I'm here for that I need it!!!
3:00 am by universal production music
8 1/2 minutes of poker in this 90 minute video
Sammy plays the most profitable type of poker player.
16:00 YEAH DAN!!😂😂
Now a typical Sunday on line $55 buy in will have 900 players lol
I thought I would come on a poker site to ask this burning question - in my FB memories from 5 years ago, after 12 years as a poker dealer in our local casino, I dealt such a bizarre hand that I want to know if anyone can tell me the odds on this: FLOP - Trip 6's, TURN, the 4th SIX!!! I have also put a Royal Flush on the table - once. I also dealt Pocket Aces, Kings, and Queens to three players and proceeded to put one of each on the flop..... Those were the good old days! I retired over two years ago, but I do miss pulling stunts like this~
What was the buy in to this tournament?
$10,000
Wow it's weird that the producers still feel like most of the audience doesn't know how poker works
Characters playing cards has mostly been relegated to computers in every big game
1:12:39 Sammy💯👍🏼🎯
Seen this a bunch over the years but always wondered why Sam went all in on the flop on the final hand. Why not just call the raise and go from there? He had at least 2.3 mil left after he lead on the flop even if he commits another 500k on turn and river and loses he still has 1.8ish to fight with
Thank you for the videos. Btw why was Scotty hair short cancer?
I bet he lost a prop
@@francescoiadicicco1266 maybe but being a heavy drinker cancer maybe?
Anyone know what country song is playing?
Noooooo, not my boy Tomer
you got really lucky congrats
It was skill bro. You don't finish top because of luck
Tomer said he’d shave his legs for $2m my man hasn’t been able to see his own knees since he was two years old and he thinks he’s gonna shave his legs 🤣
Where is Phil ? Please come back !
The current poker players are nameless faceless all in robots with no personalities if you removed the announcers watching poker would be like
watching grass grow . You had a great game with people who talked to one another and ruined it.
Because today's society has turned into a fcking joke.
So back then there was no side pot? 11:40
51:57 Tiger Taunt