Updated on 22 Feb 26 by
Barry Carter
Poker Expert

The sickest hands of 2016

As the year draws to a close we look back at some of the most infamous televised hands from the last 12 months.

The sickest slowroll

Slowrolls are bad. Slowrolls where the villain showboats are worse. Slowrolls that get outdrawn are pretty sweet:

The best speechplay

On his way to his first EPT title Sebastian Malec channeled his inner Scotty Nguyen to talk his opponent into the call:

The best way to win a bracelet?

When you are three handed against two world class players, this is the way to finish:

The biggest bluff?

Mustapha Kanit ran a huge bluff on his way to an EPT High Roller title which got everybody talking:

Check your privilege

The hand itself is pretty standard but the tension created by William Kassouf in the Main Event caused this epic blow up from Griffin Benger. It was such an overreaction the hand actually went viral in the mainstream media:

Did we miss an epic hand from 2016? Let us know in the comments:

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Barry Carter is the editor of PokerStrategy.com and the co-author of The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2, Poker Satellite Strategy, PKO Poker Strategy, Endgame Poker Strategy, GTO Poker Simplified, Mystery Bounty Poker Strategy and Beyond GTO. In 2025, he won the Global Poker Awards for Best Book and Twitter Personality of the Year.