Clip: Only Friends Podcast #722, starting at the used segment. The same clip is also posted as a YouTube Short and a Facebook Reel.
Quick answer: On Only Friends Podcast #722, Matt Berkey recounts a cash-game pot against Roger Sippl. He says he "cold four-bet Kings to some amount," Sippl was his "only caller," and the flop came "King, Jack, Brick, Rainbow" "with the King of Spades." Berkey "c-bet, he calls." The turn was the "Queen of Spades." Sippl, "in position," "just smashes all in." Berkey, "out of the small blind," calls. Sippl says, "I got a good one." Berkey says that in his head "that's ace ten," "the nuts," and answers, "me too." Then, he says, "I made the mistake of turning my hand over first and I show top set of kings." Sippl, in this telling, says, "oh, my hand's not so good anymore," and shows "jack ten of spades for a pair and an open-ended straight flush draw." Sippl decides, "all right, one time. I can't win it twice." "Ace of spades right on the river," a voice says, "for a royal." Berkey: "I just die inside. This is the biggest pot I've ever lost." He looks up and Sippl is "standing over the table with his phone out going, smile. Smile for the camera."
The official YouTube title, from a stream uploaded November 11, 2026, is Cutting through the AI noise with Andrew Barber | Only Friends #722. The accompanying YouTube Short and Facebook Reel titles put the pot at $1.2 million. That figure is not spoken in the used clip, which only has Berkey calling it "the biggest pot I've ever lost." In the same episode, just outside the used cut, he calls it "$1.2 million of cold hard cash" and "a $1.2 million pot," and earlier "about 1.3 million." A December 29, 2017, Card Player interview quotes him calling it "a $1.1 million pot," with some different betting details. This article treats those figures as his, from those tellings, and does not treat $1.2 million as a confirmed official pot size.
PokerNews, on November 9, 2026, reported that Sippl, a high-stakes player and "serial entrepreneur," had passed away at age 71. In the fuller episode, outside the used cut, Berkey frames the story as paying his respects after a death "a couple days ago." That tribute line is not spoken in the Short itself.
Kings, a flush draw, and showing first
Berkey places himself first with a cold four-bet, "Kings to some amount," and Sippl as the only caller. The flop is "King, Jack, Brick, Rainbow" "with the King of Spades." He continuation-bets; Sippl calls. The turn is the queen of spades, and Sippl, he says, "just jams."
Sippl speaks before the cards come over. "I got a good one." Berkey "get[s] sick," because "in my head that's ace ten." A voice on the podcast agrees: "That's the nuts, yeah." Berkey answers, "me too," then, by his own account, "made the mistake of turning my hand over first."
What he tables is top set of kings. What Sippl tables, in this telling, is jack-ten of spades: a pair and an open-ended straight-flush draw. "Oh, my hand's not so good anymore."
"One time"
Sippl, Berkey says, chooses to run the river once: "all right, one time. I can't win it twice." The used clip does not include his longer plea, just outside the cut, to run it twice. The river, as a voice on the podcast puts it, is the ace of spades "for a royal."
"I just die inside," Berkey says. "This is the biggest pot I've ever lost." Before he can gather himself, "I look up and he's standing over the table with his phone out going, smile. Smile for the camera." Another voice sums it up: "Dunked on you."
The Short ends there. It does not date the game or name the room.
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FAQ
What hands does Matt Berkey say they had?
He says he had kings, flopped "top set of kings," and called a turn jam. He says Sippl showed "jack ten of spades for a pair and an open-ended straight flush draw," then made a royal when the ace of spades came on the river.
Does the Short say the pot was $1.2 million?
No. In the used clip he only calls it "the biggest pot I've ever lost." The $1.2 million figure appears in the Short's title, and Berkey uses it in the same episode outside the used cut. In that episode he also says "about 1.3 million," and in a 2017 Card Player interview he put the pot at $1.1 million.
Does he say he showed first?
Yes. "I made the mistake of turning my hand over first and I show top set of kings."
Is this presented as an official hand history?
No. It is Berkey's account on Only Friends #722. Details in his 2017 Card Player telling differ in places, including how the money went in.