What are the most legendary poker hands?

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I am thinking about making a webpage/blog celebrating the most legendary poker hands in history. The idea would be that people could then vote on the hands and they could be ranked.
The hands could be both the most important hands, like wsop finals, or just crazy hands from televised tournaments.

I don’t know if something like this already exists, I’ll be looking into it.

But the question is: what are YOUR favorite hands from the poker world?

Here are some of mine (I don’t know much poker history actually):

WSOP 2003 final table Chris Moneymaker bluffs Sam Farha
YouTube - Chris Moneymaker VS Sam Farha WSOP 2003 Best Bluff

WSOP 2002 (2003?) Scotty Nguyen bluffs Humberto Brenes
YouTube - Insane Poker Bluff

WSOP 2008 quad aces vs RF:
YouTube - WSOP 2008 Main Event - Royal Flush vs. Quad Aces

Mike Sexton calls Mike Matusow’s bluff in Poker After Dark (?)
YouTube - Mike Sexton makes sick call against Matusow

And a real gem, my personal favorite of all hands: 96-year-old Jack Ury horribly slowplays the better house in WSOP 2009:
YouTube - WSOP 2009 Main Event - Jack Ury is back!!!
“You’re in trouble!” lmao


EDIT: wow I didn't know that the video links would be embedded like that. My apologies if this is a problem.
 
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Stu Ungar

During the 1992 World Series of Poker, Ungar faced off against Mansour Matloubi in a series of $50,000 buy-in no limit hold'em heads-up freezeout events. On the final hand of the game, Matloubi tried to bluff Ungar all-in for $32,000 on the river with a board of 3-3-7-K-Q. Ungar, who held 10-9, thought for a few seconds and said to Matloubi, "You have 4-5 or 5-6 so I'm gonna call you with this" and flipped over his 10-high to win the pot and bust Matloubi, who in fact held exactly what Ungar said he did.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stu_Ungar#cite_note-15
 
Oh yeah! I have seen that hand, I wanted to include this and also when Stu Ungar won his final WSOP title.
 
The huge hand where it's Ivey vs Durrr vs PA and Ivey and Durr go heads up and its all in on a board of 345 with one of them having A2 and the other 67
 
ben_rhyno said:
The huge hand where it's Ivey vs Durrr vs PA and Ivey and Durr go heads up and its all in on a board of 345 with one of them having A2 and the other 67
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Was that online or live poker?
 
ben_rhyno said:
The huge hand where it's Ivey vs Durrr vs PA and Ivey and Durr go heads up and its all in on a board of 345 with one of them having A2 and the other 67
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Its not that great a hand.

There is a lot of money involved, but it is the nuts vs the second nuts with 2 very loose players who are capable of bluffing in this situation.
 
doyle's 10-2 to win the twice has to be up there...

i dont have the link but youtube it, when durrr bluffs a 410k pot with 72 and scoops the 10k 72 prop bet
 
High Stakes Poker Jamie Gold vs Sammie Farha

Jamie KK
Sammie AA

But Jamie whines so much that Sammie gets spooked and dosent get him All In, instead he checks back the river.

Not an amazing hand in itself, but Sammie tries to make out that he was letting Jamie off the hook so he could bleed him again and again.

After Jamie leaves the table, Doyal Brunson says "what did you think he had? If he had TT he would have bet it himself"

Sammie again says he was going easy on Jamie so he could play him again and again.

Doyle Replies "Why? Are you sleeping with the fellow?"
 
cazique said:
High Stakes Poker Season 6. Dwan 3-barreled Ivey with 9-high.
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ivey should be the hero in that one. It was a remarkable play by both
 
WSOP13 said:
ivey should be the hero in that one. It was a remarkable play by both
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Exactly, that's why it is legendary. Would have been more epic had Ivey managed to level himself into calling. So close!
 
ya somebody already said that one. I think that just the fact that he was thinking about calling makes it legendary imo
 
* Guy Laliberte vs. David Bennyamine - 1.2 million dollar pot, Bennyamine let off the hook by Laliberte as a 2:1 underdog.

YouTube - Biggest Poker Pots #006 - Guy LaLiberte vs David Benyamine - Kd5d vs Ac8c

This was a bad read by Bennyamine. The poker here wasn't particularly good, but it was still an interesting hand in illustrating bankroll disparity and showing how little one of the biggest pots in poker can be to a person with almost unlimited resources. To Guy Laliberte, a 1.2 million dollar pot is like playing the micros for many of us. It is just a tiny fraction of the bankroll that Laliberte can represent, whereas it is likely a fairly significant portion of Bennyamine's. As Doyle said when the proposition was made: "This (pot) represents one day in his life, and it represents your life".
 
WOW! That is pretty awful. Now THAT is some unlucky variance at play.

I'll bet Antonius wished he hadn't said "good luck" before the cards ran.
 
That last one is pretty sick. LOL.

no more running it twice or 4 times... 🙂
 
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