What is the best poker play you've seen on TV?

Daliman · #1 09-23-2004, 01:48 PM

I nominate Barry Greenstein's River bet into Gus Hansen on the first PSI Gus won.

The jist of the hand was this. Gus raises preflop(!?!)3 handed from the button with 97o, BG calls. The flop comes 68T, two of BG's suit. BG checks, as does Gus behind him. Next card off is another 8( i think, either way, it paired top or 2nd), but it fills BG's flush. Gus has no redraws.
BG checks, Gus bets, and BG studies whether Gus may have checked a set or 2 pair, and quickly decides against it. He raises gus, and Gus calls without much ado. river is a Ten, making the board...

688TT
Not a pretty board for a straight OR a flush.

But BG, knowing that the likelyhood of Gus checking ANY pair on the flop was slim to none, BETS OUT AGAIN, and not some wussy defensive bet. He bet ~150k into a pot of ~250k( i think, fuzzy on ot size). Not only is this a fantastic read for Gus's hand, but also for the likelyhood of Gus calling, as I believe,(He may have said for sure in an earlier post here..) that BG put Gus DIRECTLY on the straight on the flop. Only other hand I can think of he would put Gus on is any hand containing the ace of BG's flush, therefore getting paid off possibly by the nut-no pair, but I doubt BG was thinking much of that.

BG COMPLETELY outplayed Gus in this tournament, made every right move at the right time, and just got carded out.

Any others? I have a few, but the Dalibaby is hungry...

Shaman · #2 09-23-2004, 01:58 PM

Moneymaker's long stare down and eventual call of Dutch Boyd's overcards during the 2003 WSOP had to be the best ever.

Also Phil Hellmuth's bet and reraise against Tony D was great too. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

luckycharms · #3 09-23-2004, 02:04 PM

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Also Phil Hellmuth's bet and reraise against Tony D was great too. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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If it ever even happened.... my sarcasm-o-meter is slightly off lately, this might be another case. I think it was a bad play, but what do I know? It worked. Too risky for me.

Daliman · #4 09-23-2004, 03:11 PM

MM's play on DB WAS a great play, but the Phil vs Tony hand has been widely discredited as false.

Missed the [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] at first. I guess that was yer point.

augie00 · #5 09-23-2004, 03:18 PM

Phil vs. Tony was fake.

I really really liked Ted Forrest's play from WPT season 1 with AJ. Alan G. open raised UTG with JJ, and Doyle moved all in with Q8 or something. Ted re-raised all in thinking that Alan couldn't call and knowing that Doyle was bluffing. Ted was right and Alan shouldn't have called, but he did. Tough luck for Ted, a great play gone bad.

Deorum · #6 10-04-2004, 09:42 AM

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I really really liked Ted Forrest's play from WPT season 1 with AJ. Alan G. open raised UTG with JJ, and Doyle moved all in with Q8 or something. Ted re-raised all in thinking that Alan couldn't call and knowing that Doyle was bluffing. Ted was right and Alan shouldn't have called, but he did. Tough luck for Ted, a great play gone bad.

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If I remember correctly, Alan was in the big blind with the
JJ and Doyle opened the pot by moving in. Ted took a
long time to think before pushing in, after which Alan
called from the BB with his jacks. I do not think that
Alan opened for a raise, but it has been over a year since I
saw this episode, so forgive me if I am mistaken. Anyway,
if the action went like this, then Alan's call with the
jacks would have made more sense, as the long pause from Ted
would indicate that his hand was not all that strong. But
it has been over a year since I saw that episode, so forgive
me if I have recalled the action incorrectly.

Paul Phillips · #7 10-04-2004, 11:42 AM

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I really really liked Ted Forrest's play from WPT season 1 with AJ. Alan G. open raised UTG with JJ, and Doyle moved all in with Q8 or something. Ted re-raised all in thinking that Alan couldn't call and knowing that Doyle was bluffing. Ted was right and Alan shouldn't have called, but he did. Tough luck for Ted, a great play gone bad.

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Alan shouldn't have called? This is an automatic call.

phixxx · #8 10-04-2004, 03:10 PM

Ted Forrests call down in the stud tourney with deuces.

jonjonmacky · #9 10-04-2004, 11:29 AM

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Moneymaker's long stare down and eventual call of Dutch Boyd's overcards during the 2003 WSOP had to be the best ever.

Also Phil Hellmuth's bet and reraise against Tony D was great too. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[/ QUOTE ] I cant stand chris moneymaker and his dumb play sam farah deserved to win that tourney and was sams mistake that made chris look good, sorry for being off topic i just cant stand all the hype he got over i, its sickining. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

luckycharms · #10 09-23-2004, 02:01 PM

I'm going to get hell for this, but I think Arieh's laydown of the flush when the board paired with his suit was amazing.

He hit the 2nd to nut flush on the river after paying to see it. Unfortunately, it paired the board, giving John Murphy a fullhouse off his flopped set of deuces. Murphy bet about 1.5m into a 1m pot. Now, I know this isn't an INCREDIBLE play because it was an overbet and the board was paired, but still, it's the only hand I've seen on TV in recent memory that wasn't either AKo vs. 55 preflop all-in or a 66 preflop laydown.