Updated on 22 Feb 26 by
Barry Carter
Poker Expert

The sickest televised hands of 2017

We recap some of the strangest, sickest and biggest pots seen on screen over the last twelve months.





(Almost) million dollar pot

2017 saw the return of Poker After Dark to PokerGo and we cannot leave off one of the biggest pots seen on screen this year, between Rick Salomon and Aaron Zang:

The return of durrrr

Not only did we see the return of that show, we saw the return of Tom 'durrrr' Dwan to our screens, and it was like he never left:

Huge and questionable fold

This was a real head scratcher for many at the WSOPE, see what you think of it:

The dumbest slowroll ever?

Every year a slowroll on TV gets everybody talking, it was no surprise that the most famous tanker in poker was the man behind it in 2017:

A Main Event nightmare

Not only was this one of the sickest hands seen at the WSOP Main Event in years, it also was notable because it was on the live streamed feature table from Day 1B, it's very rare these get caught on stream:

What sick hands did we miss? Let us know in the comments:


Poker Expert

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.