With two players remaining, Nguyen flopped three nines and then improved to a full house on the turn. One of the most famous phrases in poker was delivered during the final hand when Nguyen told his opponent, “You call, it’s going to be all over, baby.” Unlike other Main Event runner-ups who disappeared from the poker scene, Seidel went on to nine WSOP tournament victories.ģ. The victory was the second straight for Chan in the Main Event, making him one of four players to win the tournament in consecutive years. On the river, Chan gave his now-famous “Eye to the Sky” look before Seidel’s ill-fated, all-in bet. The final hand between these two members of the Poker Hall of Fame was popularized in the poker film “Rounders.”Ĭhan flopped a straight against Seidel’s top-pair queen and set a trap for his opponent. Instead, Moneymaker’s bluff helped him win the Main Event and set off a worldwide poker boom.Ģ. Had Farha found a call, Moneymaker’s chip stack would have been decimated. But he went all-in, and Farha was forced to fold his pair of nines, leading ESPN commentator Norman Chad to call Moneymaker’s move the “bluff of the century.” Moneymaker missed his straight and flush draws and was left with only king-high on the river. None was more memorable than his elimination of Phil Ivey in 10th place.īut it was his hand during heads-up play against Farha, a high-stakes pro, that remains etched in history. Moneymaker, an accountant from Tennessee who qualified for the 2003 $10,000 buy-in No-limit Texas Hold’em World Championship through an online satellite, scored several surprising knockouts on his way to the final table.
This was named the WSOP’s most memorable TV hand, and with good reason. Using the WSOP’s First Fifty Honors vote from 2019 as a guide, here are the best televised poker hands in WSOP history:ġ. There have been several memorable hands at the World Series of Poker since television cameras first started following the action for CBS Sports in 1973. Jonathan Duhamel celebrates winning the World Series of Poker, Monday, Nov.
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