Jamie Gold at the 2006 WSOP Main Event Final 27, the Run That Made a Champion

Jamie Gold at the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event, down to the final 27 players. Archival footage of the run that made him champion and earned a first prize of about 12 million dollars, the largest to that point.

Watch Jamie navigate Day 5 and 6 of the 2006 Main Event, including the famous table talk against Prahlad Friedman, on the way to the largest first prize in poker history at the time.

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Watch Jamie tell the story 20 years later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnQGJmMEaAM

Original: 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event (WSOP)

CHAPTERS
00:00 Down to the final 27
2:32 Richard Wyrick all in against Gold
4:29 Cunningham builds a stack
6:03 Friedman versus the field
11:54 Leif Force and the young guns
13:04 Gold traps Eric Lynch
17:07 Gold plays for his father
18:18 The Gold and Friedman bluff hand
22:48 Leif Force doubles up
28:26 Cunningham busts O'Donnell
34:12 The Stu Ungar tribute
35:20 Richard Lee runs a bluff
39:34 Gold knocks out Friedman
42:24 Gold flops a straight flush
45:32 Final two tables are set

2006 World Series of Poker Main Event. Jamie Gold, world champion.