Phil Hellmuth Loves Phil Hellmuth
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It must feel pretty damn good to take a hand off of Johnny Chan in a big tournament. If you’re Phil Hellmuth, you’ll use the hand as an opportunity to let the greater Philly area know exactly how cool you really are. The Philadelphia Daily News lets Hellmuth pump that ego in print:
“The last card was a deuce, and now Chan just checked. At this point, I was fairly sure I had the better hand, but why bet? I mean, what hand could he call me with that I could beat? He wouldn’t be calling me on the end with a busted straight draw, but perhaps he would call me with 3-3 or ace high? I thought not. If he called a bet, then he would most likely have 7-7, 6-6, or 5-5, which I could not beat.
So I checked, he hesitated a moment, and I said, “Pair.” He nodded, meaning, “That’s good, you got it.” And I flipped my hand up and scooped the pot.
Showing this hand down seems to have put the fear of God into my opponents, thinking perhaps, “Did Phil just call Chan down in mere seconds with bottom pair? I better not mess with him today.”“
We took a pot off of poker pro Max “The Italian Pirate” Pescatori in a live tournament once, but you don’t see us telling the world about it. We are pretty cool though, just so you know.
Satisfaction in ousting Chan at TOC [Philadelphia Daily News]
Live Poker On TV Tomorrow
READ MORE: Full Tilt Poker, Phil Hellmuth, Poker
Looking for some poker to watch in Thursday’s tryptophan-induced couch time? Full Tilt Poker and Fox Sports will bring you live poker from Monte Carlo, sit and go style. Here’s PokerNews’ report:
Confirmed entries for the event in Monte Carlo include former World Champions Phil Hellmuth and Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, who will be joined at the table by fellow professionals John Juanda and David “DevilFish” Ulliot. Three other players have been extended invitations, Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen and Mike Matusow, but we’ll have to wait until showtime (live at 6PM on the East Coast) to see what the actual final lineup will be.
Each player will be putting up $120,000 and Full Tilt will add in another $160,000, bringing the total purse to a cool $1 million. Only the final three players left at the table will walk away with any of the bounty, with third place getting their buy in back, second taking $280,000 and the first place winner walking off with $600,000.
Apparently, our invite got lost in the mail. Thanks Full Tilt!
Live Poker Back Again On Fox Sports Network [PokerNews]
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Making Mobney
READ MORE: Jopke, Mobney, Online Poker, Paul Phillips, Phil Hellmuth, Poker
I think we’d all agree that Phil Hellmuth is a tireless and enthusiastic self-promoter. So you’d think by now he’d be a little bit better at the job. As discovered by Paul Phillips, winner on the World Poker Tour and the patient chronicaler of many bizarre Hellmuthian episodes, this is sadly not the case:
A reader alerts me of the content presently at phil hellmuth’s web site:
“For a second year in a row, Phil Hellmuth makes it to the Tournament of Champions final table.”
Talk about your back-to-back performances!
Year One: Ten (invited) players total. Phil surprisingly manages not to go out 11th. ONE FINAL TABLE IN A ROW.
Year Two: Phil fails to qualify for the event. A lifetime of acting like an idiot makes him sufficiently attractive to a sponsor that he is allowed to play anyway at a direct EV cost to everyone else in the tourney. But it’s not enough to acquire $250,000 at the expense of others who qualified fairly. No, let’s brag about it. TWO FINAL TABLES IN A ROW.
You’d also think that after all those columns bemoaning the beats he’s suffered Phil would be a bit more skilled with the keyboard, but, again, nope. Thanks to Paul we all know that Phil is a total JOPKE, and now we know that Phil’s creative spelling doesn’t end there:
We’re almost loathe to mention this, because Phil might think it’s a great idea. But Hellmuth really should have a webcam on himself when he plays online. We’d watch the car wreck, wouldn’t we?
TWO YEARS IN A ROW [Paul Phillips]
JOPKE JOKE JOPKE JOKE [Paul Phillips]
Schadenphil
READ MORE: Phil Hellmuth, Poker
What’s that word that best describes our gleeful delight in the losing streak of another? Schadenfreude is what we were thinking, but when it’s Phil Hellmuth doing the complaining, it’s even sweeter than that. His words, from The Miami Herald:
“I’m sick of watching everyone else win game after game on ESPN, FSN and the Travel Channel!
Am I jealous of them?
No, most of the guys deserve to win their events. All-time poker greats Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan, for example, each won their 10th bracelet at the 2005 World Series of Poker (WSOP), shown on ESPN. Of course, I’m not crazy about the fact that Chan, Brunson and I were once all tied on No. 9 and vying to be first to cross the double-digit mark.
No, I’m just irked that I haven’t won a tournament in a while. Yes, I did win the NBC Heads-Up Championships this year, but a big win at WSOP, the World Poker Tour (WPT), the upcoming Superstars of Poker III or another big televised event in Europe (two are being shot in Monte Carlo in late November) wouldn’t hurt. A man has his reputation to think of (and not because he’s a poker brat).”
Apologies, by the way, for the lazy headline writing by the Herald’s editor below. If we could find a way to send Robert Patrick back to the seventies to terminate Kenny Rogers, we wouldn’t have to think twice.
Know when to fold ‘em [Miami Herald]
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Hellmuth’s TV Meltdown, In Case You Missed It
READ MORE: Phil Hellmuth, Poker, WSOP 2005
Goddammit, does Phil Hellmuth make for interesting TV sometimes. Last night in hour #1 of the WSOP telecast on ESPN, Hellmuth called an amateur’s all-in pre-flop holding Ace King. The amateur was thoroughly dominated, holding King Jack of Hearts. No flush draw going into the river, but do we need to tell you what spiked on fifth? Cribbed post-hand table talk right from the telecast:
This fricking donkey stuck fifteen thousand with King Jack. I mean, the guy can’t even spell “poker.” I re-raised to let him know what I had… He peeled a King off - a Jack off for the sucker. You don’t know how to fold a hand. Some of the worst players in the world, I can’t believe this is the World Series of Poker. (Amateur adds, “Yeah, go figure huh?”) I threw away all those hands just to make it look like they could move in on me… What a terrible play. If I ever stick all my money in with King Jack… Pfft… Of course, that’ll never happen in a million years. (Amateur chirps up, “Yeah, I’ve seen worse.”) Not from me, buddy… That’s why I’m the nine-time World Champion of Hold ‘Em, ‘cause I always have the best hand. You found a Jack for the live one, huh?
Classic meltdown, hope you didn’t miss it.
Hellmuth’s New Column To Focus on Poker, Bitching
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Well-known poker loudmouth Phil Hellmuth brings his patented style of griping to the Sunday “Hobbies” page of The Indianapolis Star, proving once again that good things happen to those who whine. Is this the Indy Star’s reaction to the New York Times hiring James McManus? Or is it because Daniel Negreanu is already syndicated elsewhere? You decide.
New Columnist(Bottom of Page) [Indy Star]
Fun With Polls: Poker Players
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