Hellmuth Poker After Dark
Poker After Dark cash game. By Phil Hellmuth Published: Apr 22, '08. Posted: April 22, 2008 05:48 PM No comment on how I did (per my NBC contract), except for this article. 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. 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. Poker After Dark: Week 1 - Poker Brat Attack. Featuring Shawn Sheikhan, Annie Duke, Phil Hellmuth, Steve Zolotow, Huck Seed, and Gus Hansen.- Classic seasons. Hellmuth also threatened not to participate in future Poker After Dark tournaments unless the show implemented a rule that encouraged people to stop talking when a player is making an important decision. Immediately after the incident, producers put in place a rule which states that if a player wishes to have silence at the table when faced.
It’s fair to say that Phil Hellmuth has a reputation for winning at poker. Some of Hellmuth’s top poker moments have come at the World Series of Poker where he has won a record 15 bracelets. But the best poker involving Poker After Dark player have come in PAD episodes featuring Phil Hellmuth. Hugely popular in Poker After Dark YouTube videos, Hellmuth is one of the most popular Poker After Dark players ever to grace the stunning PokerGO Studio at the ARIA Resort. One reason for that is that when he loses, the Poker Brat often blows his top!
THE BIRTH OF THE POKER BRAT
The Poker Brat has always had the ability to blow his top, but never was he more combustible than when taking on friends. Hellmuth’s clash with the legendary former actor and stand-up comedian-turned-commentator Gabe Kaplan in this hand was something for the ages.
There’s something innately pleasing about watching an otherwise sanguine Hellmuth explode with fury as a perceived injustice, and whenever he’s “mad as hell” with nowhere to go, the table get the full force of the Poker Brat!
TAKING ON LEGENDS
Poker After Dark Phil Hellmuth
Many of the greatest Poker After Dark moments were those that featured the very biggest names at the times clashing in a massive all-in pot. That was never truer than when two legendary Phil’s clashed in this unforgettable pot.
Hellmuth is way ahead of Phil Ivey pre-flop, but his chances of winning the hand are reduced considerably when he flops top set but Ivey makes the straight. When the turn and river compound his agony, Hellmuth finally blows, leading to much laughter from tablemates like Daniel Negreanu. Run for cover!
SO MANY WAYS TO BLOW UP
Whether it’s an epic rant against a player getting lucky or bemoaning his own lack of fortune, Hellmuth’s ability to snap out of the focused player he is at most times, vent his anger then return to winning ways is legendary. In some ways, it helps him to get it out of his system, because when he keeps it in, it seems to affect him more.
Phil Hellmuth Poker After Dark
Take a look at this hand he loses to a delighted Alex Keating. Having doubled through Keating in the penultimate hand of the night, Hellmuth then proceeds to bust to the same opponent in the final hand of the night during that PAD Cash Game. Even running it twice doesn’t help.
WIN OR LOSE, HELLMUTH WON’T CHANGE
It doesn’t always go wrong for the Poker Brat. Here, Hellmuth sweats with aces and manages to get it in good and survive, but as ever, it’s the waiting that hurts and Jean-Robert Bellande is in no mood to go quickly into the night.
Phil Hellmuth could win 20 WSOP bracelets – his declared ambition – as well as another WSOP Main Event. He could clear up on Poker After Dark and scoop in every pot bar one on High Stakes Poker. But if he loses that one pot and is unlucky to do so, stand well back and enjoy the fireworks, because there will always be a part of the Poker Brat in Phil Hellmuth.
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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.
“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.
“That’s really nice. Really nice. Waited all that time, flopped top set…. It’s just unbelievable. How bad can I run?”