The 10 most legendary hands of poker (part 1 of 3)

April 21, 5:55 PMOnline Poker ExaminerSteven Ruddock

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Every so often, a hand of poker is dealt that goes down in history. The players involved usually have no idea anything extraordinary is about to happen, and that's what makes them even more memorable.

Here are numbers 8-10 on my list of the 10 most legendary hands of poker:

#10 - Stuey calls with Ten high!

Immediately following the 1992 World Series of Poker Stu Ungar faced off against Mansour Matloubi in no limit hold'em at the $50,000 buy-in heads-up freeze out event. On the final hand of the game Matloubi tried to bluff Stuey all-in for $32,000 on the river with a board of 3-3-7-K-Q. Ungar who held 10-9, thought for a few seconds and told Maltoubi "You have 4-5 or 5-6 so I'm gonna call you with this" and flipped over his 10-high to win the pot and bust Maltoubi, who in fact held exactly what Ungar said he did.

#9 - You call and its gonna be all over baby!

The infamous tag-line of Scotty Nguyen was coined in 1998, when  Scotty won the WSOP in this epic showdown with Kevin McBride.

#8 - Hellmuth is the youngest ever to win the WSOP!

No matter what you think of the man, or his antics, this moment in 1989 was the making of a legend.