Crybaby Phil does it again...
Day 11: Phil Hellmuth Day at the 2007 WSOP
By Martin Derbyshire
Jun 12, 2007 | 3 hours ago
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Big day, this 2007 WSOP Day 11. This 11th Day of June. We made World Series of Poker history today. Or at least Phil Hellmuth Jr. did as the Poker Brat won, of all numbers, his record breaking 11th WSOP Gold Bracelet.
Phil will bank $637,254 for the win and it truly was Phil Hellmuth day. Poker legends Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan have 10 Bracelets, as did Phil before today, but he's the first player to ever reach 11.
Now when Phil tells people he's the best poker player on the planet, it's time to start taking him seriously - If you didn't before.
<small> Classy Legends</small>
Chan and Brunson were nice enough to join Phil at the bracelet ceremony. These guys are all class. Unfortunately, Harrah's is not.
The final table at the event, one of the many $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em tournaments run at the WSOP, commenced behind the big black shroud Harrah's uses to shield spectators from watching when they run their tape delayed streaming video coverage over the Internet.
They charge $49.95 for you to watch it at home, but poker fans and players who made the trek to the Rio today to watch Phil make history in person had to do it on a TV outside the tournament room an hour after it was happening. Adding insult to injury, the coverage featured audio that was about two minutes behind the on-screen action.
Harrah's needs to get a clue. If they keep doing things that tell poker fans they don't want them here, they are going to stop coming. Interest in the game and the WSOP will wane and it won't be long before no one is paying the fifty bucks to watch it at home.
It's a losing proposition, especially considering all the bad press they're getting for playing all this poker behind closed curtains.
<small> Mad Money</small>
I've watched Hellmuth play almost flawless poker in a number of events at the 2007 WSOP already and it was a pleasure. He makes incredible reads, prudent calls and well planned raises. He talks a pretty good game as well; probing for information, needling players to tilt them into bad mistakes and picking off those who dare to bluff him.
He has 11 bracelets for a reason and it could have been on display for a big crowd in the Amazon Room today, but Harrah's blew it.
A call came out over the loud speaker in the tournament room after the win inviting people to the bracelet ceremony. "Don't miss being a part of poker history," the voice said. Too late, we already did.
Day 11: Phil Hellmuth Day at the 2007 WSOP
Jun 12, 2007 | 3 hours ago
Email to a friend Print
Big day, this 2007 WSOP Day 11. This 11th Day of June. We made World Series of Poker history today. Or at least Phil Hellmuth Jr. did as the Poker Brat won, of all numbers, his record breaking 11th WSOP Gold Bracelet.
Phil will bank $637,254 for the win and it truly was Phil Hellmuth day. Poker legends Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan have 10 Bracelets, as did Phil before today, but he's the first player to ever reach 11.
Now when Phil tells people he's the best poker player on the planet, it's time to start taking him seriously - If you didn't before.
<small> Classy Legends</small>
Chan and Brunson were nice enough to join Phil at the bracelet ceremony. These guys are all class. Unfortunately, Harrah's is not.
The final table at the event, one of the many $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em tournaments run at the WSOP, commenced behind the big black shroud Harrah's uses to shield spectators from watching when they run their tape delayed streaming video coverage over the Internet.
They charge $49.95 for you to watch it at home, but poker fans and players who made the trek to the Rio today to watch Phil make history in person had to do it on a TV outside the tournament room an hour after it was happening. Adding insult to injury, the coverage featured audio that was about two minutes behind the on-screen action.
Harrah's needs to get a clue. If they keep doing things that tell poker fans they don't want them here, they are going to stop coming. Interest in the game and the WSOP will wane and it won't be long before no one is paying the fifty bucks to watch it at home.
It's a losing proposition, especially considering all the bad press they're getting for playing all this poker behind closed curtains.
<small> Mad Money</small>
I've watched Hellmuth play almost flawless poker in a number of events at the 2007 WSOP already and it was a pleasure. He makes incredible reads, prudent calls and well planned raises. He talks a pretty good game as well; probing for information, needling players to tilt them into bad mistakes and picking off those who dare to bluff him.
He has 11 bracelets for a reason and it could have been on display for a big crowd in the Amazon Room today, but Harrah's blew it.
A call came out over the loud speaker in the tournament room after the win inviting people to the bracelet ceremony. "Don't miss being a part of poker history," the voice said. Too late, we already did.
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