PokerNews.com Makes MoneyMaker’s Bluff #1
June 24, 2009 by Kris Jones
Filed under Sports
The greatest televised moment in poker is now officially (at least PokerNews officially) Chris MoneyMaker’s colossal bluff on Sam Farha. Many attribute MoneyMaker’s bluff and then improbable Main Event bracelet as the fuel behind the great poker rush of the mid 2000s.
On the play, MoneyMaker put the WSOP on the line with a busted straight and flush draw and incited Norman Chad to make one of the great calls in poker history, calling it “the bluff of the century.” Farha later downplayed the play as a horrible move, but that’s probably just the bitterness talking. The truth is Farha was afraid to put what would amount to almost all of his chips on the line and MoneyMaker correctly pushed.
It was the right move at the right time. Farha probably thought he was ahead, but decided he would try to come back after the hand rather than risk it all. However, that was a momentum hand and MoneyMaker cruised home to the title.
Check out the hand and watch MoneyMaker’s after hand tell, he might as well have just said he bluffed him:
