I despise
Phil Hellmuth with a passion.
The guy is such a hypocrite and has the social skills of a backward 10 year old.
I cringe when I watch him on tv but I still do it just to see him get stuffed.
He may be a fantastic NLHE tournament player but I don’t think that I’ve ever seen him have a winning cash session on tv.
The Poker After Dark series being shown on Challenge currently is really great to watch because he gets beat up so badly.
After storming off set in a previous game when he was totally outplayed and lost a hand to
Annie Duke and whining that people were talking when he was trying to get a read – he constantly talks while other people are playing big pots.
In the cash game currently been shown on Poker After Dark, there are three hands that made me laugh out loud.
He has made his usual statements about how he is going to slow play and really trap someone and that will show people what a great player he is and the other guys at the table aren’t worthy of playing with him.
It’s a 6 seater table and the blinds are $200 and $400 with a $100 ante. I’m a bit surprised that they’re playing an ante for a cash game but I guess that they can do what they like.
Hand 1:
I’m a bit hazy about the amounts bet but it’s something like this.
David Peat: QT in early position raises to $1,200
Hellmuth: AK in the sb re-raises to $3,400
Peat calls.
Flop = KJx
Hellmuth checks dark (genius) and Peat checks his draw.
Turn = T
They both check again.
River = 9
Hellmuth check calls $1,100 on the river and then tells everyone how great he is for not losing more!
…
Hand 2:
Hellmuth:-
limps
Mike Baxter:-
raises to $1600
Guy Laliberte:-
calls
Hellmuth calls the raise
FLOP is
Hellmuth checks.
Baxter bets $4,000
Laliberte folds
Hellmuth calls
Turn is
Hellmuth checks dark
Baxter bets $8,000
Hellmuth calls
river is
Baxter bets $16,000
Hellmuth insta-calls
Baxter says “2 pairs” and turns over his KK pretty quickly.
Then Hellmuth whines about Baxter slow-rolling him – very classy.
…
Now for the piece de resistance:
David Peat:-
raises to $1,200
Hellmuth calls with
Cunningham calls with
The flop is
Peat bets $2,200
Hellmuth calls
Cunningham raises to $11,000
Hellmuth says “This is what I was waiting for fellers, I’m all in – all of it”.
Cunningham quietly says “I’m going to call you Phil”
Hellmuth says “Thankyou, I think I've got the nuts” with a really smug look on his face.
The cards get turned over:
Hellmuth says “Wow – set over set”.
The set of 10’s holds up and Hellmuth reloads for $100,000.
Pity that Hellmuth only had less than $20,000 at this point because he had lost so much already but it made me laugh.
It’s obviously unlucky to lose to a flopped set over set and I’d probably have some sympathy if he wasn’t such a t0$$3r.
I've had a bad day on the cash today with a number of bad beats but this has more than made up for it.
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