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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsCuIdmlKB8
Ignore the title. This came out in 2012 and may be the last major poker documentary given Black Friday and its effects on the industry.
You'll know most, but not everything and it'll certainly make you feel like you were living through the poker boom again.
Some fun tidbits I found out through it?
The guy who invented the hole card cam, Henry Orenstein, survived several concentration camps. Imagine that! If not for the hole card cam, no poker boom may have occurred. The popularity of the cam on the World Poker Tour lead to the success and giant field (at the time) of the 800+ in the Moneymaker WSOP, which lead to more people wanting to play poker, live and then online. Then came the boom...
Another fun tidbit:
Moneymaker was chip dumping in the tournament in which he satellited his WSOP seat. He wanted the $8k cash for 4th place and wanted to stay out of the top 3 which were 3 seats you couldn't sell. Then, his friend said he'd give him 5k cash to finance the trip and help him pay some debt, only to back out later and leave Maker on the hook for his entire seat with only him and his father as the investors.
I wonder how that guy feels now.
In short, I liked the movie. Worth the watch for poker players...
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