Phil Hellmuth Poker After Dark
Hellmuth makes regular appearances on episodes of Poker After Dark on PokerGO both as a player and as a drop-in commentator. Hellmuth won his first Poker After Dark tournament in the first episode of the third season, winning $120,000. Hellmuth returned two weeks later and claimed his second Poker After Dark title, winning another $120,000. Two poker legends faced off this week in a special Poker After Dark: Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu. And there was one key head-to-head hand, one that turned the tides and basically handed the. On 16-7-1964 Phil Hellmuth (nickname: The Poker Brat) was born in Madison, Wisconsin. He made his 20 million dollar fortune with World Series of Poker, Poker After Dark. The poker Player is married to Katherine Sanborn, his starsign is Cancer and he is now 56 years of age. Poker After Dark’s GOAT week opener ended with two huge hands involving Phil Hellmuth. In the first, “The Poker Brat” doubled through Alan Keating before bus.
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On Tuesday, Poker After Dark “GOAT Week” got underway on PokerGO with an epic cast of characters lead by Phil Hellmuth. The all-time record holder with 15 World Series of Poker bracelets, Hellmuth is known to be friends with both professional athletes and big-time businessmen and women, and this week we’re catching a glimpse of that action when Paul Pierce made his debut on Poker After Dark.
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Hellmuth also extended invites to Kevin Hart, Michael Phelps, Jason Calcanis, and Chamath Palihapitiya, David Lee, and Draymond Green, giving us a little insight into what might be happening inside the PokerGO Studio if the stars align in the future. Poker is hot in Hollywood, and Hellmuth is ready to battle all comers while also looking out for us, the poker fans, in hopes of bringing big names into the studio.
“Generally speaking, when people play with me they have a lot of fun. That’s led to me playing in a lot of really cool games all over the world,” Hellmuth before dropping more names that love the game of poker.
“I think Chris Paul’s a pretty good player, Russell Westbrook is a hell of a poker player. Westbrook is probably the best player in the NBA. Paul Pierce is The Truth and I can’t wait to play against him.”
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“For two years in a row, Steph Curry was the last warrior standing in the Golden State Warriors charity poker tournament. He plays well, Klay Thompson plays well, Draymond plays well. Those guys have a game on the plane, and so they play every flight.”
This week on the show, the PokerGO audience gets a chance to know Alan Keating, a high stakes cash game player in Las Vegas, and Hellmuth has high hopes for his game and persona translating well in front of the cameras.
But how did Hellmuth get involved in all of this and why do athletes and successful business people love poker? Obviously, he’s the 1989 World Series of Poker Main Event champion and the MC of many poker charity events, but it’s his personality that really drives the action when it comes to getting action.
“Part of it is that they want to see me go off a little bit if they beat me,” Hellmuth laughed.
“I also think I’m reasonably fun and I know a lot about business. There are connections made between some of the athletes and some of my billionaire friends. There’s always money to be made,” Hellmuth said.
“Athletes are top competitors. They’re warriors and poker is the ultimate sport to be competitive in. You see a ton of athletes playing our game. It’s just pretty normal and standard, there are even some rappers that play the game and Jay-Z has been at charity events that I’ve been at. It’s a game that’s just competitive and I think that’s the thing that brings players in.”
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Phil Hellmuth became one of the superstars of poker in part because of his incredible successes at the table, but also because of his “poker brat” reputation. There are dozens of YouTube videos of Hellmuth steaming after a bad break, and in this clip from Poker After Dark, Hellmuth had a good reason to be irate after losing his entire stack in a cash game to Phil Ivey.
Ivey, with 8-6 of clubs, raises preflop to $2,500, and both Hellmuth and Patrik Antonius call with pocket pairs (10s and 4s, respectively). Daniel Negreanu folds and Tom Dwan calls with King-Queen offsuit to make it a four-handed pot.
Ivey flopped a 6 to 10 straight, while Hellmuth flopped three of a kind and got caught in a “cooler” (when you have a great hand, but are playing against an even better hand).
Fortunately for Antonius and Dwan, they were able to escape without losing much money. Ivey, acting first, bet $8,000, and Hellmuth called. A two of diamonds on the turn was useless to both players, and Ivey followed up with a bet of $23,000.
At this point, Hellmuth still had a relatively decent 23 percent chance at the pot, and needed either a 10 or the board to pair and give him a full house. After thinking it over for a moment, Hellmuth went all-in, and Ivey instantly called.
Before the river, Hellmuth tried to work out a side deal with anyone at the table for insurance, but found no takers. He found no help on the river and lost his stack to Ivey, then went on a classic Hellmuth rant.
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“It’s unbelievable. I waited all day and flopped top set, and he had 6-8? And I’m out. All right, I’ll play another $100,000. I can’t quit.”
A few moments later, Hellmuth was still going.
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“That’s really nice. Really nice. Waited all that time, flopped top set…. It’s just unbelievable. How bad can I run?”