What are the most legendary poker hands?

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.

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.

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

phil ivey insane bluff



YouTube - Poker - Phil Ivey vs Paul Jackson Heads Up skills

Was that online or live poker?

live, just google it its insane

YouTube - Isildur1 and Antonius play $1.3 Million Pot (biggest in poker history)

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

Loved the observer chat on Thunders Video. Somebody says "Is this play money or real money"

High Stakes Poker Season 6. Dwan 3-barreled Ivey with 9-high.

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?"

ivey should be the hero in that one. It was a remarkable play by both

Scotty Nguyen's... "You call and it's all over baby."

Exactly, that's why it is legendary. Would have been more epic had Ivey managed to level himself into calling. So close!

Not exactly legendary, but still cracks me up whenever I watch it.

YouTube - High Stakes Poker - Phil Hellmuth vs Mike Matusow

the hand where that_pope bet kk into nwerle's trup qq

YouTube - James Bond is all-in (last poker hand in Casino Royale)

If Phil Ivey called I would say this would definitely be up there, lol.

YouTube - Durrrr aka Tom Dwan amazing bluff versus Phil Ivey - High Stakes Poker 2010

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".

YouTube - Antonius vs Robl: running it 4 times

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...

That good2cu hand was freaking crazy.

The result would be the same had they run it once. That was an unbelievable beat, the more times you run, the less variance there is supposed to be and Antonius still got nothing from a hand where he had 73% equity...

Uhm..... SICK!?!??! I think I got a fever just watching that. I'm going to lie down, dizzy...

lmfao I like how Antonius recalls Sammy at the end... I roughly translated what Antonius was saying into what I think he really meant: "FML Sammy 2.0, there go all the chips that should have been mine. I'm about to try and flip this f***king table, and unlike Phil Hellmuth I will succeed."

YouTube - PokerStars Big Game hand w/ Hellmuth

This was a great hand on the UK-based Full Tilt Million Dollar Cash game.

The thing I find funny about it though is that the exact same thing happened in the previous season between Benyamine and Dwan, only Dwan held the A2 and Benyamine had 67.

I remember this being a pretty epic bluff:

YouTube - Caribbean Bluff Adventure

Thanks for all the replies.
It seems that everyone thinks that bluffs are the rage, which they are, but you can also suggest other hands you consider most legendary, like the final hands of any particular WSOPs.

Here's one: the "Nine on the river" for Ferguson vs Cloutier 2000. Ferguson is such a gigantic poker icon although he never really had a good WSOP run since.
YouTube - Final Hand of WSOP 2000

lol at the lack of noise when the 9 hits, and then all we see is some clapping, nobody going crazy. The WSOP and poker in general really came a long way.

Love this one from an Irish tournament. 6-handed with 5 pocket pairs dealt including AA KK and QQ.

YouTube - Free Poker - Crazy Poker Hand - AA-KK-QQ

And KK correctly folded preflop, but it would've been the winner.

ike is such a hero

Obviously the most legendary is the Scotty one