Final Hand of WSOP 1979

[AGame79]

1:43 "Shuffling his chips - a nervous habit a lot of professionals have"!

[TheAcehighFlush]

Fowler was the First amateur poker player to win the WSOP Main Event bracelet.  And the $270,000 first prize was nice too. ( that was A Lot of money back in 1979 )

[p0rnz]

look a like ogrish sounds

[HBRevive]

WHAT AN IDIOT HE PLAYED A GUTSHOT.

[FortyOzSwilla]

@HBRevive and a behemoth sized chip lead, after 5 hours heads up...

[HBRevive]

WAT AN IDIOT HE PLAYED FOR A GUTSHOT. LOL

[KingOfDiamonds717]

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[MPH84]

Hal called that bet on the flop just trying to hit the gut-shot. Shows he's an amatuer. Of course, he hits it and becomes champ.....but still slow rolls his hand! That pisses me off!!

[evexxxxx]

@MPH84 What pisses you off? That you`re a moron?

...would piss me off, too!

[J3ofHearts]

FAIL DESCRIPTION =D

[iveymatusow]

67 VS AA LOL

[Sashinator0]

I think it's funny how Fowler slowrolled on the end and nobody said anything, how the times have changed.

[4JayeP]

I wonder who has Hal's bracelet.

[pw51508]

6-7 is the best hand to have when you're up against A-A. It's the hand that's most likely to come from behind and win.

[Oreillyisthebest]

@pw51508 actually mathematically its 56s

[RargonSE]

@pw51508 you suck fag

[newsense87]

Cheer up mate, you won.

[rigbst]

I suck at poker.

[Doderhultarn89]

thats wath you get for slowplaying aces

[Ulterior1980]

So true! I hate ppl limping in with large pocket pairs. Let them pay the price of milking!

[MikeHL78]

Um, didn't you hear what Bobby Baldwin said there? He said at 0:28 that Hoff raised it coming in before the flop, and then he put out a pot-sized bet on the flop. Who's slowplaying?

[jackrgolf11]

hes so stoned after he wins he doesnt even kno

[JMX2280]

Probably the worst player to ever win the main event.

[Doderhultarn89]

no. both jamie gold and jerry yang is WAAAy worse

[JMX2280]

You're only saying that because of all the televised hands you've seen of Gold and Yang. If Hal Fowler's win came after Moneymaker's win in 2003, surely everyone will agree that Fowler was the worst player to ever win the main event.

[MikeHL78]

Agree w/you 100%. Moneymaker looks like Johnny Chan next to Fowler. IIRC Hoff had Fowler all-in and covered 4 different times heads-up and Fowler drew out on him every time.

[secretbonus]

It was like a 3 table sit n go, and I'm pretty sure back then it was winner take all. Completely different game, and completely different skill set... players actually folded and played much more passively, and much tighter. People have gotten better recently but a couple years ago they played AT and AJ like it was aces. It's more of a chess match when people actually fold.

[MikeHL78]

It wasn't winner-take-all by this point -- 1977 was the last year of that -- but yeah, totally different skills. They had somewhere between 50-55 players in this, and they did indeed play a lot tighter back then. It's only within the last 5 years that AQ against an early-position raise hasn't been an automatic fold.

[Fip101]

wow gray chips = $500 and almost 30 years later 1 chip = $250,000 its nuts

[rb333]

I love how Hal sits there after he wins without telling ... a true poker champion.

[jeffw1267]

Five hours, for heads-up play??

Of course, these guys didn't have the jam-or-fold tables to refer to. Today the heads-up match would be over in about ten minutes.

[bigfilmhat]

Aces cracked!!!!