Going into the final table of the Pot-Limit Omaha event at the 2000 World Series Of Poker, 71-year old poker legend Amarillo Slim must have felt pretty confident of snapping on his fifth bracelet. Between 1972 and 1990 the fast-talking Texan had made four appearances at a WSOP final table and won at each time of asking. All that stood in his way this time was a little-known player from New Jersey by the name of Phil Ivey.

The short-stacked 23-year-old sat opposite Slim and point-blank refused to let the Texan engage him in his trademark table banter.