The flop comes 9♥ 9♦ 3♣ and Krantz bets $19,000. TonyBliar makes the call.

The turn drops the 5♥; Krantz bets $53,000 and TonyBliar calls once again. The river trips the board with the 9♣ and Krantz bets $61,000.

TonyBliar now check-raises to $122,000, and Krantz raises to $209,504 and is all-in. TonyBliar calls his last $87,504. Krantz shows 7♦ 7♥ for the full house, nines full of sevens, and TonyBliar turns over 3♠ 5♦, a smaller full house.

Krantz's bigger full house is good for the $585,008 pot and biggest-pot-of-all-time honors.

If you found the action in this hand a little confusing, you're not alone. TonyBliar's call of the three-bet pre-flop with 3♠ 5♦, though highly questionable, is probably the least confusing of all the plays in this hand.

The river reraise by Krantz would just never happen if this were a real hand. With stacks so large Krantz would never reraise that river bet.

There would be no value in a third raise on the river since a worse hand would never pay it off. He would instead be happy to smooth-call the min-raise and see a showdown.

Strange plays alone, however, are not what have so many high-stakes pros questioning the validity of this hand.

Earlier in the night Krantz played a session against Ariel "DaEvils" Schneller, also known as FoxwoodsFiend. To call this session strange is an understatement.

Krantz and FoxwoodsFiend are known to be very good friends. Would they do battle in the high-stakes arena just for s**ts and giggles? I mean after all, who doesn't enjoy taking a house off one of their closest friends?

The session that they played more closely resembled a drunken game of 5¢/10¢ with friends than the $300/$600 No-Limit game it actually was.

The play in this game was often head-scratching - see #HandHistory

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