PokerNews.com Makes MoneyMaker’s Bluff #1

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 …read more