after watching tonight's ESPN coverage of Day 5 of the 2008 WSOP Main Event, IMO Phil's got the title of all-time biggest jackass of the poker world locked up.
when Mike "the mouth" Matusow is telling you you're "way out of line", i think it's time for the 11-time bracelet winner to sit down and STFU.
if you missed tonight's episode, Hellmuth was moved to a very tough table with Matusow, "Chino" Rheem and a Romainian player who had a tendency to over value soOted junk. it was the perfect recipe for Hellmuth to act like a tilt monkey.
This was the hand that set him off:
Romainian guy comes in with a standard 3x pf raise in EP with 10-4 sOoted. it folds around to Hellmuth who 3-bets with AKo. Romainian guy calls and the flop comes 10-high. He bets out a little more than half the pot and Hellmuth goes off mucking his hand face up. Meanwhile, the Romainian shows Phil the mightee 10-4soOted, the entire table erupts in laughter and Hellmuth goes apeshit calling his opponent an "idiot" at least 5-6x. Hellmuth is stomping around when finally the TD comes over to calm things down but, Hellmuth continues to scold the Romainian until he finally goes off on Hellmuth.
I really don't understand what these pros think they are doing (e.g Scotty Nguyen). I realize they're playing for a lot of money but, their fans and new viewers are just going to get turned off by this kind of behavior.
I've never been a fan of Hellmuth and he may be arguably one of the best NLHE tournament players of all time but, who can look up to a "professional" who acts like a fuggin child whenever the cards don't fall their way?
This was the hand that set him off:
Romainian guy comes in with a standard 3x pf raise in EP with 10-4 sOoted. it folds around to Hellmuth who 3-bets with AKo. Romainian guy calls and the flop comes 10-high. He bets out a little more than half the pot and Hellmuth goes off mucking his hand face up. Meanwhile, the Romainian shows Phil the mightee 10-4soOted, the entire table erupts in laughter and Hellmuth goes apeshit calling his opponent an "idiot" at least 5-6x. Hellmuth is stomping around when finally the TD comes over to calm things down but, Hellmuth continues to scold the Romainian until he finally goes off on Hellmuth.
I really don't understand what these pros think they are doing (e.g Scotty Nguyen). I realize they're playing for a lot of money but, their fans and new viewers are just going to get turned off by this kind of behavior.
I've never been a fan of Hellmuth and he may be arguably one of the best NLHE tournament players of all time but, who can look up to a "professional" who acts like a fuggin child whenever the cards don't fall their way?
TD's need to do a better job of enforcing the rules among unknown players and well known pros equally.
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Pretty freakin' bad display by Poker Brat, even if it was for the cameras.
Bodonkey --- YES !!!!
ESPN didn't show/mention that Hellmuth actually got a one orbit penalty for his behavior that was supposed to be assessed at the beginning of the next day. This would have cost him 80K in blinds/antes (about 10% of his stack). Hellmuth arranged a meeting with WSOP execs and was able to have the ruling overturned. Google "hellmuth dragomir wsop idiot penalty" for more.
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