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7 unusual facts about Phil Hellmuth


Bad beat

Professional player Phil Hellmuth, among others, is notorious for his pronounced reactions to bad beats.

Cereus Poker Network

Spokespeople for UltimateBet have included professional poker players Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke, as well as actress-turned-poker player Tiffany Michelle.

Garry Bush

His second-place finish in the $3,000 Pot Limit Hold'em tournament at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) earned him $139,540 at the end of a lengthy event that included Ram "Crazy Horse" Vaswani and Phil Hellmuth Jr.

Michael Binger

At the 2007 WSOP, Binger tied Phil Hellmuth and Humberto Brenes for second most cashes of any player in a single World Series of Poker season with eight.

Peter Eastgate

By winning the Main Event at age 22, he became the then youngest WSOP Main Event champion, surpassing Phil Hellmuth, who was 24 when he won in 1989.

Phil Hellmuth

On December 20, 2008 Hellmuth was playing $200/$400 heads up limit hold em on UltimateBet, where he was at the time a spokesman, when an apparent software glitch occurred.

In May 2004 Phil Hellmuth partnered with Oasys Mobile for the release of Texas Hold'em by Phil Hellmuth. At the time it was one of the ten most popular multi-player mobile phone games available.


Liv Boeree

During the show she was coached by top poker players Phil Hellmuth, Annie Duke and Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott.

Noli Francisco

At the 1993 World Series of Poker, Francisco finished 2nd in the $2500 no limit hold'em event when he lost to Phil Hellmuth.

Shawn Sheikhan

Sheikhan was involved in several more incidents, one involving Phil Hellmuth on Poker After Dark when Hellmuth accused Shawn of refusing to stop talking while he was playing in a hand with Annie Duke, though in fact the entire table were conversing.


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