Top Poker Videos 22/02

Video 1 - Hellmuth bluffs Matusow with the 72

Here's a great clip from last season's High Stakes Poker. All the players agreed to paying $500 each to anyone who won a hand with 72. This prop bet generated some fantastic action - especially considering that everyone bought into the game for $100k, so the motivation for winning the prop turned from being financial to a question of pride. Matusow talks himself into folding the best hand here and kudos must be given to Hellmuth for pulling the trigger.

Video 2 - Ivey V Jackson at the Monte Carlo Millions

Hands up who hasn't seen this? If you haven't then you're in for a treat. This maybe the best poker clip on the net. Bluff, re-bluff, re-re-bluff, re-re-re-bluff and then the final re-re-re-re-bluff all-in from Ivey. The reaction from Paul Jackson says it all. Shame about the less than stellar commentating, but you can't have it all. Enjoy!

Video 3 - Stu Ungar WSOP 1981

Looking like a young Keith Richards here's Stuey winning the Big One for the second time in a row back in '81. 75 runners and a first prize of $375k - barely worth getting up for these days, eh? There's some good verbals between Stuey and Perry Green when Green calls all-in on the up-and-down straight draw.

Video 4 - Stu Ungar WSOP 1997.

Here's Stuey again with his comeback WSOP victory in '97. The comparison above with Keith Richards is an apposite one as now Stuey looks like he spent the 80s and 90s hanging out with Keef. I suspect Stuey's drug intake might have made even the legendary Rolling Stone look like a lightweight by comparison. The post-match interview with Gabe Kaplan has a poignant irony as we all know what happened the following year. R.I.P Stuey.

Video 5 - Pure Pain

Here's Jen Harmon getting runner-runnered at the 2005 WSOP Main Event when Corey Zeidman rivers a straight-flush. This hand is famous for being a slow-roll, but to be fair to Zeidman he actually turns his cards over very quickly. Perhaps it's all the bollocks he's talking on the turn that makes it seem like a slow-roll.