There are hours of footage waiting online and all are perfect to watch on the sly at work, or hungover in bed on a Sunday morning.
Stu Ungar wins '97 WSOP
The WSOP has been running for 40 years and the TV cameras have been there to broadcast the biggest and sickest players ever. None of course can rival Stu ‘The Kid’ Ungar, who won the Main Event three times. He scored back-to-back victories in 1980 and 1981, and then made an incredible comeback to make it three No-Limit Hold’em Championship titles in 1997, before tragically dying of a drug overdose the following year.
Hellmuth becomes youngest WSOP winner
A young Phil Hellmuth beats Johnny Chan in the 1989 WSOP Main Event to claim the record of youngest ever winner of the Big One (well, he was until Peter Eastgate beat Ivan Demidov heads-up in 2008). Hellmuth knocks out two players in third and fourth with the worst hand each time, something that he no doubt forgets to ever mention when talking about his 1989 victory!
Hellmuth bluffs Matusow off the hand
High Stakes Poker has transformed the poker broadcasting landscape. Featuring great players, huge stacks and plenty of vitriolic banter, the cash game format with monstrous pots has left some of the made-for-TV tournament shows trailing in its wake. While six-seater tournament shows like Late Night Poker dominated the poker TV schedules since the late 1990s, HSP has now become the most popular poker program ever, by virtue of its starry cast and nosebleed stakes. The introduction of the 2-7 game in one season totally turned the game on its head and lead to some crazy play. Who will ever forget the time Phil Hellmuth bluffs Matusow off Kings with the beer hand?
PKR TV
PKR has been running its own TV channel for some time now and if you’re yet to take a peek at PKR TV then, well, you’ve been missing out. With motormouth Ashley Hames harassing big-name players around Las Vegas, not to mention Jabba and Danski commentating on all the biggest tournaments at PKR, including the $100k guaranteed Masters, you’d be a fool to miss out any longer!