25 Jan 12

Your Top 10 Televised Poker Hands: Part 1

Last week we showed you some of our favourite televised poker hands, now we decided to show some of yours. In the first part, we have a look at five particularly interesting hands - enjoy!

Last week Barry Carter shared his top 5 televised poker hands of all time. While there is no doubt that he picked some classics, many of you got in contact with us to share your own favourites. Some of them were so good we had to create a top ten of your top poker hands, so here are the first five, in no particular order:

Phil Ivey vs Paul Jackson

You don't always need the best hand to win in poker, and here Phil Ivey and Paul Jackson put that to the ultimate test at the Monte Carlo Millions:

The greatest laydown in poker history?

Could you ever get away from jacks-full? EPT & WPT champion Roberto Romanello shows you how to do it, much to the surprise of Mike Matusow:

Tom Dwan vs Phil Ivey

This classic from High Stakes Poker impressed people for lots of reasons, in particular because Phil Ivey almost made one of the biggest hero calls ever, it was impressive that he even considered it:

Sam Farha vs Oliver Hudson

Can you think of anything worse than busting out of the Main Event on the first hand? Thanks to Sam Farha and Oliver Hudson, you can see just what it looks like:

Stupidest hand ever?

Most hands make it into these lists because they are played in an awe-inspiring skillful way - this is not one of those hands:



Join us later on this week for your next five favourite hands from the PokerStrategy.com community. Do you think we have missed out any classic poker hands? Tell us your favourites in our dedicated forum thread.