Tag: Phil Hellmuth

Phil Hellmuth dressed as Darth Vader for his grand entrance into the World Series of Poker Main Event

He couldn’t have found a better Darth Vader costume?

It’s that time of the year again when poker legend Phil Hellmuth digs deep into his bag to come up with a unique entrance for the World Series of Poker Main Event.

Hellmuth has entered as Thor, Gandalf and even a boxer in years past. He decided to enter the 2022 event dressed as a character from Star Wars.

That character is Darth Vader.

Scare tactic? Trying to loosen the vibes? Jedi mind-tricking his competition? Whatever the case, Hellmuth, the holder of 16 WSOP Gold Bracelets knows how to get himself ready for the Las Vegas event.

Will he leave with bracelet No. 17?

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Phil Hellmuth ignites poker world with controversial move that he says wasn’t a fold

This was totally a fold.

This may come as no surprise to those of you who know about Phil Hellmuth and his various controversial moments, but he’s involved in another controversy.

This time, it involves something known as “angle-shooting,” which I’ve described as the poker equivalent of balking in baseball — basically, if you make a move like you’re going to fold your cards and you’re not folding? That’s not OK, because then your opponents may react a certain way when they assume you’re folding.

Here’s the situation: During a live-stream of a no-limit Hold ‘Em game, Hellmuth had Ace-9 offsuit with an Ace on the board, and his opponent — a poker streamer known as “Slime” had Ace-6. Slime moved all-in, and Hellmuth let out a, “[Expletive], I just have no idea what to do here.”

That’s when he appeared to slide his covered cards toward the middle of the table. Most people — everyone? — would assume this was a fold.

It was not. And Slime turned his cards over. (WARNING: NSFW language ahead)

This is angle-shooting, in my opinion. Hellmuth should give this guy the money he won. And others agreed:

Hellmuth responded:

He should definitely give this guy something back.

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Phil Hellmuth dropped so many F-bombs in a furious rant at the World Series of Poker

He was SO MAD.

We’e seen this before from all-time great Phil Hellmuth, known for many a foul-mouthed rant at poker events over the years after losing some tough hands.

And earlier this week, at a 2021 World Series of Poker Stud championship tournament, he delivered another one.

He suffered a bad beat at the final table and lost a few more hands, and as you’ll see in the video below Hellmuth let loose with so many F-bombs (WARNING: There’s some NSFW langauge, even with most of the expletives bleeped out) and some unhinged ranting.

“He pops me on the [expletive] turn with a diamond draw and an ace,” he said at one point. “There’s like one ace left. [Expletive]! How does he get rewarded for that [expletive] [other expletive] play? They [expletive] overplay their hands against me, that’s why I win all these [expletive] tournaments. Miracle [expletive] river.”

Whew.

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