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[bjbjtaylor]

i think we coulddo a lot with this topic. i would like to here from some of the more experienced players and get there input on this topic. we could also go into the WORST bluff. I only have one catch: it has to be from the wsop or thw wpt. either one of these can be posted thanks!

[MSR]

One that stands out to me is the one from the 2003 World Series of Poker involving Scotty Nguyen. I don't remember who he was against, but he made a huge reraise and then said 'You can not call this bet. This too much for you.' The guy folds, and Scotty turns over 8 3 off suit. He holds them up and says 'I raise $100,000 with these two cards baby. Oh $#^@, I thought we play blackjack! %&#%!' I love that hand

[Tiburon41]

MSR said:

One that stands out to me is the one from the 2003 World Series of Poker involving Scotty Nguyen. I don't remember who he was against, but he made a huge reraise and then said 'You can not call this bet. This too much for you.' The guy folds, and Scotty turns over 8 3 off suit. He holds them up and says 'I raise $100,000 with these two cards baby. Oh $#^@, I thought we play blackjack! %&#%!' I love that hand

Scotty's the man. "Oh s***, I thought we play blackjack..." roflmaoI must have missed that one, but it's classic.

[Ed]

There was one last night on ESPN Classic that I hadn't seen in a while that was really good.It was the WSOP '98 final table with Scotty Nguyen and Mcbride. It was after McBride had took down the 1.4m pot with trip 4s, and it had cut a good bit into Scotty's lead. On a hand where both players checked the flop and turn, McBride then bet out for 120K on the river. Scotty thought for a bit and put out a raise to total 300K. McBride, who hadn't made a hand but had two face cards in the hole, folded. Scotty turned up something to the effect of like 5-6 offsuit, which also left him with no hand - and he showed it as he scooped the chips.Now, I don't know how many hands were edited out between that hand and the final one, where Scotty got him with the 9s full, but it seemed like McBride was never the same after that. Maybe it can't be called "best bluff," because it didn't get McBride off a made hand, but it did completely turn around that heads up match and cleared the way to ultimate victory for Scotty.That '98 final table is an interesting watch. Seems like there was more poker in that final table than some of the events we've seen recently.

[TeeDot]

Phill Ivey vs Peter Giordano.No raise pre-flop. Flops A-6-rag and Phill takes a stab at the pot. Peter G makes a standard defensive raise with A-Q.Phill reads his target perfect and puts him on a big Ace. Phill proceeds to dart his eyes around like he's luvin' his hand and puts Peter all-in. No reasonable player can call Phill with AK, AQ right? Perfect execution because if Phill got called with his Q-6, he was dead to the 2 sixes.

[KDawgCometh]

the one randy jensen comitted half his stack in was great too in the WPO last year

[HaHaHaj4l]

MSR said:

One that stands out to me is the one from the 2003 World Series of Poker involving Scotty Nguyen. I don't remember who he was against, but he made a huge reraise and then said 'You can not call this bet. This too much for you.' The guy folds, and Scotty turns over 8 3 off suit. He holds them up and says 'I raise $100,000 with these two cards baby. Oh $#^@, I thought we play blackjack! %&#%!' I love that hand

-I think that might have been against Humberto Brenes- yea that was classic.

[RyanM]

Yep, 2 great ones that I have seen have already been posted...Scotty Nguyen in WSOP 2003, and Daniel vs. Freddy. Great bluffs.

[PokerDealer2005]

Hate to say it....but wait till you see the one Humberto put on daniel at the five diamond classic this year. Daniel played excellent and won, but man that was one huge bluff. looked like daniel was on tilt for a bit after that.

[BlinkersOn]

2003 WSOP Moneymaker against Farha.

[sightless]

BlinkersOn said:

2003 WSOP Moneymaker against Farha.

I second that

[Monster_Josh]

I'll third that

[uahphysics]

I personally am a big fan of 2004 wsop final table.....Raise and a re-raise I believe, Dan Harrington on the button REraises to 1.2mil with 6-2 i believe, and gets all three of them to fold and takes down the pot....beautiful

[minorityreport]

Daniel's bluff. Greatest bluff in television poker. Greatest bluff of all time? No way. Televised? yes.

[SportsW234]

I know there is some contorversy that the hand ever happened, but I think one of the greatest bluff I've ever seen is Hellmuth forcing Tony D to fold three jacks on a Kh-4c-Js-Jh board.

[Army Eye]

XXEddie said:

SportsW234 said:

know there is some contorversy that the hand ever happened, but I think one of the greatest bluff I've ever seen is Hellmuth forcing Tony D to fold three jacks on a Kh-4c-Js-Jh board.

I wouldnt call that a nice bluff by phil....more of a bad play by Tony D

Heh, didn't you nominate the Daniel vs. Freddy Deeb hand? Freddy butchered that hand on every street. Give Phil his due.. a great play , as was Daniel's

[KDawgCometh]

minorityreport said:

Daniel's bluff. Greatest bluff in television poker. Greatest bluff of all time? No way. Televised? yes.

that bluff was great, but I don't think it was the greatest tlevised bluff. The one Stuey put on Ron Stanley was just massive. He yook down a real big pot, damaged the second chip stack, and he put Stanley so badly on tilt that Ron crashed out in fourth as opposed to heading for a showdown with Stuey for the title. Ron was the second chip stack coming into the final table and him and stuey were in control af a good amount of the chips when play started. If stuey had lost that pot Ron Stanley would've been the massive chip leader and some of stuey's invicible cloak would've come off, he basically put his entire tournament at risk on that bluff