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The Poker Grapevine – is Phil Hellmuth Underrated?
Posted by: Randy Williams - Sun, 2014-01-19 09:29
Everyone knows that Phil Hellmuth considers himself the best poker player in the world, second to no other. What the public at large thinks of him is different though. Most people consider him simply lucky, having an uncanny ability of being in the right place at the right time and knowing how to make his few strengths really count.
The truth – as it’s most often the case – is somewhere in the middle though. Poker writer Lee Davey argues that Hellmuth is vastly underrated by his peers and by the public, because his off-the-felt antics (like showing up to a poker tournament dressed up as a roman emperor) draw the attention and the limelight away from his actual poker skills, which aren’t just plentiful, they’re sharp too as attested by his 13
WSOP bracelets, his 49 final tables and his 100 cash finishes. This man is definitely not just a bag of hot air, but he’s not doing himself many favors image-wise through his general demeanor and his lofty (albeit more often than not fully justified) opinion of himself.
In other news: 2013 WSOP Main Event runner-up Jesse Sylvia has set some pretty lofty goals for himself for the next 15 years. Having taken part in MTV’s True Life: I’m a New Millionaire, Sylvia said he was interested in purchasing an island off the coast of Panama, and that he would accomplish it within 15 years. His plans also include the building and running of a hostel there.
In still other news: this is rather old news by now, but we haven’t yet covered it so here goes: 2013 WSOP runner-up Jay Farber’s Las Vegas house has been robbed. The perpetrators must’ve had some inside knowledge of things or they were just plain lucky: they pulled the deed just two days before a new security system was scheduled to be installed.
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