Hellmuth, the guy is a legend

[Royal Flush]

All round Prat, but a bloody good player, first to 11 bracelets, beating 2500+ players is some accomplishment!

[Steelio]

Well played Hellmuth, a great achievement and surely more to come in the future

[LeKnave]

Amazing accomplishment.

nh phil.

[CrestOfaWave]

Respect - even if it is through gritted teeth.
(Plus I  never picked him for my fantasy team)

Out of interest who has the best ratio of wins vs events entered? My guess it could be someone like Allen Cunningham - a poker players player.

[TightEnd]

Sensational achievement clearly

[Acidmouse]

WOW he did it, he will have bragging rights now, how funny.

[AndrewT]

Night of the luckboxes, clearly.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=24505.60

[kinboshi]

Great player, great poker mind.

Prize plonker.

Congratulationaments on the 11th bracelet.  It'll be worth its weight in publicity and endorsements.

[Snatiramas]

He is a rude git for reasons that I will not post here

[TightEnd]

Prize plonker.

how much of the table antics are "contrived" by someone aware of their possible impact on opponents, is is he a real idiot?

I look back at McEnroe, for example, and the vast majority of the antics were for show, or if not to pysche himself up.

Now McEnroe is lauded and much missed in an era of robots, personality wise

History will presumably look kinder on Hellmuth than contemporary analysis of his character suggests....?

[Sark79]

Well done.  He is the best character in poker,  anything I have ever seen or read about him, he comes across like a spoilt brat. Deep down I think he is a realy good bloke.  Some of the other mouths are actually real life prats and you can just tell they actually believe the are Gods gift to poker by treating the other players like crap. I think with Hellmuth, it is all an act.  He even admits this himself

[johnbhoy76]

He may or may not be an arsehole but that does not make him a better or a worse player.

Weher you like him or not you can't argue with 11 bracelets.

Although am I correct in saying that all his bracelets have been won in Hold em events?

[turny]

class player-great achievement and personally i thibk hes fantastic.

love em or hate then poker needs characters like phil helmuth, tony gee and ....................Tikay 

[LeKnave]

Although am I correct in saying that all his bracelets have been won in Hold em events?

I believe so.

[DaveShoelace]

I interviewed Hellmuth last month, within about a minute and without me actually asking him anything remotely related to it he managed to get this into the conversation:

"Well Barry, as you know I am the greatest No Limit Hold'em player of all time"

He was actually a very nice guy though and I was actually delighted with the result.