Legendary Poker Hands
Texas Holdem No-Limit WSOP 1995
$10,000 Main Event: All-In Nightmare
| Dan Harrington | Howard Goldfarb | |
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| The Flop | The Turn | The River |
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The Result
With the blinds being set at $15,000-$30,000 and an ante of $3,000 the final hand was about to be played. Dan Harrington is the current chip leader. Howard Goldfarb had hole cards of A
7
and Dan Harrington has the 9
8. Howard makes the first move and raises $100,000 pre-flop and Dan decides to call. The flop comes with the 826, which does not help Goldfarb and big Dan has top pair. The play is to Harrington and he smoothly checks, Howard decides to put all of his $617,000 into the pot and in a split second Harrington is all over the move and calls. The turn card is the Q
which doesn't help either player, and the river is the other Hilton sister, the Q, which again helps know one. That leaves Dan Harrington as the champion and he takes home the cool $1 million first prize.
analysis
When Goldfarb moved all-in on the flop he was trying to bluff his way to the pot. Had he checked the flop and then moved all-in on the turn, Dan the man would have had to make a serious decision. Harrington's check and call was a tremendous play and he must have had the instinct that Howard was capable of moving all-in with a nothing hand.
Other Legendary Poker Hands
- 1980 WSOP: Stu Ungar vs. Doyle Brunson
- 1981 WSOP: Bobby Baldwin vs. Perry Green
- 1981 WSOP: Stu Ungar vs. Perry Green
- 1985 WSOP: T.J. Cloutier vs. Billy Smith
- 1987 WSOP: Johnny Chan vs. Bob Ciaffone
- 1987 WSOP: Johnny Chan vs. Frank Henderson
- 1988 WSOP: Johnny Chan vs. Erik Seidel
- 1989 WSOP: Phil Hellmuth vs. Johnny Chan
- 1990 WSOP: Hans Lund vs. Mansour Matloubi
- 1991 WSOP: Don Holt vs. Brad Daugherty
- 1992 WSOP: Hammid Dastmalchi vs. Tom Jacobs
- 1993 WSOP: Jim Bechtel vs. Glen Cozen
- 1994 WSOP: Russ Hamilton vs. Hugh Vincent
- 1994 WSOP: Russ Hamilton vs. Hugh Vincent (Final Hand)
- 1995 WSOP: Dan Harrington vs. Howard Goldfarb
- 1996 WSOP: Huck Seed vs. Van Horn
- 1997 WSOP: Stu Ungar vs. John Strzemp
- 1997 WSOP: Stu Ungar vs. Ron Stanley
- 1997 WSOP: Stu Ungar vs. Mel Judah
- 1998 WSOP: Scotty Nguyen vs. Kevin McBride
- 1999 WSOP: Noel Furlong vs. Alan Goehring
- 2000 WSOP: Chris Ferguson vs. T.J. Cloutier
- 2001 WSOP: Phil Hellmuth vs. Carlos Mortensen
- 2001 WSOP: Carlos Mortensen vs. Dewey Tomko
- 2002 WSOP: Robert Varkonyi vs. Julian Gardner
- 2003 WSOP: Chris Moneymaker vs. Sam Farha
- 2004 WSOP: Greg Raymer vs. David Williams
- 2005 WSOP: Joe Hachem vs. Steve Dannenmann
