"the million dollar deal" - poker doc available online

silverbread · 19-10-2007 2:02pm #1

Hi there,

after a long delay, the documentary on the 1999 world series of poker is online here:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5408776087143774133&hl=en

leave a comment if you like it, and pass it on. sorry it took so long to post online.

DeadParrot · 19-10-2007 2:05pm

Good man
I'll have a look at this tonight

Killme00 · 19-10-2007 2:06pm

What A Man!!

delanec8 · 19-10-2007 2:10pm

Sweet! cheers

ollyk1 · 19-10-2007 2:15pm

silverbread wrote: »

Hi there,

after a long delay, the documentary on the 1999 world series of poker is online here:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5408776087143774133&hl=en

leave a comment if you like it, and pass it on. sorry it took so long to post online.

vwp!! muchos thanks

Killme00 · 19-10-2007 2:34pm

Seems to be lots of multiple threads on this

Its working fine for me

Thanks

5starpool · 19-10-2007 2:52pm

Please do not bump old threads to spam with the same message. I have locked those old threads to make sure you do not do it again.

Also, in one of those threads, there were a couple of comments saying the link did not work.

Thanks

ocallagh · 19-10-2007 3:08pm

thanks a mil, good work! dying to see this

modmuffin · 19-10-2007 3:19pm

Anyone else's freeze after 4min 35sec?
Any way of getting around that?

Flushdraw · 19-10-2007 3:37pm

modmuffin wrote: »

Anyone else's freeze after 4min 35sec?
Any way of getting around that?

Its fine for me

modmuffin · 19-10-2007 3:46pm

sorted. phew. thought i was actually gonna have to do some work there for a min!!

valor · 19-10-2007 4:10pm

fairly interesting, not as good as I thought it would be though

Flushdraw · 19-10-2007 4:41pm

LOL @ Mike Magee saying he had QQ and that he should have folded on the KQ5 flop. Strange the way they didnt have to show the cards when they were allin and he just mucked them on the river

BigCityBanker · 19-10-2007 5:06pm

Donnacha saying its a mans game... wp.

Mike Magee advocating folding a flopped set of Q's. Where is he now?

Mad Marty - i know now why they call him mad - he is breaking himself laughing at being responsible for breaking his girlfriends legs and at her being stuck down a hole with broken legs for 3 hours!?!?!? Pretty sick when somebody can find that funny.

Lazare · 19-10-2007 5:13pm

BigCityBanker wrote: »

Mad Marty - i know now why they call him mad - he is breaking himself laughing at being responsible for breaking his girlfriends legs and at her being stuck down a hole with broken legs for 3 hours!?!?!? Pretty sick when somebody can find that funny.

Yeah I thought that too, and causing a massive pile up. What a muppet.

Andy comes accross as such a noob lol.

meathman 007 · 19-10-2007 5:44pm

Andy Black on himself and most other poker players ' i get some highs and lows out of playing poker, some times i feel good, but if they are being really really honest , they would say that a lot of the time it dosnt make me feel good........... it dosnt make me feel good at all'

pretty depressing stuff!, no wonder he became a monk soon after that event

HiCloy · 19-10-2007 6:25pm

That was pretty good, thanks for the link.

thechamp87 · 19-10-2007 6:32pm

quite good, not very good. but interestingall the same.

David Michael · 19-10-2007 8:30pm

Enjoyed that... @ about 25 mins when your man asks "Phil" for his opinion... is that the voice of Mr "Hellmouth" that answers? Sounds like him!

Fatboydim · 20-10-2007 1:46am

Thanks for this. I remember watching it some years ago. It's unreal how far things have moved on since then.

Last saw Mike Magee two years ago in Vienna. He was mad as a box of frogs. Nice guy and better player than he appeared to be on the doco, but I fear for his sanity. He told some pretty tall tales and just seemed a little desperate.

Clareman · 20-10-2007 3:11am

I really enjoyed that I must admit, shows how far the game has come if nothing else, but I thought watching the bubble player going through all the emotions was fascinating, he had enough to survive, lost less that half his stack and then pushed, that's tilt in 2 minutes of a hand.

BTW, I like the old guy in the car saying the good players know when to fold pocket kings or aces, if only I played back then

BIG-SLICK-POKER · 20-10-2007 3:34am

Loved this ... Especially the End Credits Mad marty could not be traced , Does Marty ever calm down at all:D

robinlacey · 20-10-2007 5:16am

nice one,wanted to see this since i heard about it

califano · 20-10-2007 10:41am

Greats stuff, i remember seeing it years ago on tv and it was nice to see it again.
Does anyone remember what the bbc documentary on Mike Magee was called?. Filmed in Belfast and L.V he describes his starting point in poker and his home life there before setting off to the U.S to play in the wsop?.

LuckyLloyd · 20-10-2007 10:44am

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DEEP THROAT · 20-10-2007 2:42pm

Flushdraw wrote: »

LOL @ Mike Magee saying he had QQ and that he should have folded on the KQ5 flop. Strange the way they didnt have to show the cards when they were allin and he just mucked them on the river

I think it was allin pre flop...... He was thinking of folding before the flop. Just wasn't edited / filmed too well.

Fatboydim · 20-10-2007 3:16pm

rounders123 wrote: »

Greats stuff, i remember seeing it years ago on tv and it was nice to see it again.
Does anyone remember what the bbc documentary on Mike Magee was called?. Filmed in Belfast and L.V he describes his starting point in poker and his home life there before setting off to the U.S to play in the wsop?.

that was called POKER KINGS

Followed Magee / Gary Bush / Carlo Citrone [who got jailed for smuggling Benson and Hedges] Trumper and others.

Also a good Doc

califano · 20-10-2007 4:06pm

Fatboydim wrote: »

that was called POKER KINGS

Followed Magee / Gary Bush / Carlo Citrone [who got jailed for smuggling Benson and Hedges] Trumper and others.

Also a good Doc

Thanks Len i'll look around for it or do an Andy Dufrain and write a letter to bbc every week until they air it again or send me a copy.

Jesus Wept · 20-10-2007 5:58pm

ty

robinlacey · 20-10-2007 7:57pm

nice one,just watched it,its amazing how much 1999 looks like the eighties!

also amazing how much poker has changed since then,they were different times altogether.

weird that they got john hurt to narrate it!

Jesus Wept · 20-10-2007 9:58pm

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

25k$ bubble boy. Yuck. Fascinating stuff. I have to question whether McGee had QQ like he said. I mean he didn't show - couldn't he have just had AK? Or have had a complete meltdown moment? And then the KJ shove. Wow. Clearly the game has moved on significantly.

I have to say that I didn't find Mad Marty funny at all.

Yeah, that was ridiculas talk, guy has raised 40/60 hands, yet you think you should of folded 2nd set to him?! :eek::o:o:o

Roblin Lacey wrote:

weird that they got john hurt to narrate it!

Who is John Hurt?. Thought he was good, good voice for narration.

David Micheal wrote:

Enjoyed that... @ about 25 mins when your man asks "Phil" for his opinion... is that the voice of Mr "Hellmouth" that answers? Sounds like him!

Yes, it was John Bonetti talking over to Phil Hellmuth.

I wish people would stop referring to chips as dollars.

'It's costing $20,000 to play a round at the table'
'It was a $600,000 pot'.

No, it wasn't, they are chips, not dollars.

- 'Mad' Marty -
You stole road cones on a mass scale to fund your lifestyle.
Your girlfriend broke both her legs as a result of this.
*** Who knows if anyone else was injured/lost their life as a result of these actions? ***
You caused an 18 mile tail back affecting 1000's.

But you find it hilarious and you're 'great craic' so it's all good.

Tosser.

Ardent · 20-10-2007 10:19pm

Fascinating documentary. Thanks to the original poster, I really enjoyed that.

A couple of brief points:

- Felt sorry for Magee. He let Bob Hoff tilt him, got cold-decked on a flop with QQ v KK and he blew up shortly after with KJ on the bubble. I think we've all been there at some point or other.

- How exactly do you guys think poker has moved on massively since this documentary?? Personally, other than the number of entries involved in modern WSOP main events, I feel this documentary is as relevant today as the year it was produced.

bohsman · 20-10-2007 11:22pm

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

I have to say that I didn't find Mad Marty funny at all.

The more I hear about him the less funny I find him.

The-Rigger wrote: »

I wish people would stop referring to chips as dollars.

'It's costing $20,000 to play a round at the table'
'It was a $600,000 pot'.

No, it wasn't, they are chips, not dollars.

The buyin to tournaments has traditionally been 1 chip per $ so technically speaking yes they are $ but as its a donkament you cant win them all.

gilmour · 21-10-2007 12:54am

thank you very much for uploading this, being trying to watch it for ages. Very enjoyable insight into poker back then, it really does seem light years ago and as someone else mentioned actually looks like something from the 70s/80s.

LuckyLloyd · 21-10-2007 1:18am

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mewso · 21-10-2007 2:10am

The-Rigger wrote: »

Who is John Hurt?. Thought he was good, good voice for narration.

Bloke famous for having an alien jump out of his belly.

Weird I always thought this was shot during the 1997 WSOP. I was sure I had heard people talk about how you see Andy go out in 14th to Stu Ungar and that it drove him to become a monk etc. But he was back the following year when this was shot. Bit of a mythology building around this eh.

ocallagh · 21-10-2007 2:47am

musician wrote: »

Bloke famous for having an alien jump out of his belly.

Weird I always thought this was shot during the 1997 WSOP. I was sure I had heard people talk about how you see Andy go out in 14th to Stu Ungar and that it drove him to become a monk etc. But he was back the following year when this was shot. Bit of a mythology building around this eh.

me too, im confused
you'll see this when you quote me joe

gilmour · 21-10-2007 12:04pm

i think Andy organised the documentary to be shot in 98 after he done so well in 97 believing he would match or go further than he did the year before. Im sure i heard him mention that the 98 WSOP was the final nail in the coffin for his poker career at the time, and not when Stu Ungar knocked him out, and he definitely does seem to be a mess in it.

Jesus Wept · 21-10-2007 1:11pm

bohsman wrote: »

The more I hear about him the less funny I find him.

The buyin to tournaments has traditionally been 1 chip per $ so technically speaking yes they are $ but as its a donkament you cant win them all.

lol, in no manner in this world, technically or otherwise are they $'s. They are chips.

Daithio · 21-10-2007 11:17pm

What I found really surprising is that I remember several people telling me that they got into poker as a result of watching this program. If anything I would have thought this would completely put you off poker. They all, apart from Donnacha, come across as a bunch of degenerate losers.