Poker news tagged with 'phil hellmuth'

Phil Hellmuth could no longer contain his ire regarding a fellow high-stakes poker pro wearing a facemask at the poker table, clearly pointing out that except for rare circumstances, "no one should be able to cover their face."

Read more » Phil Hellmuth calls out Ike Haxton for wearing a mask

On July 2 Sunday, at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, Phil Hellmuth has done it again.

Read more » Phil Hellmuth wins Record 17th WSOP Bracelet

It's only been the third week since the 2022 World Series of Poker (WSOP) has started, yet a controversy had already struck one of its events, starring none other than Phil Hellmuth.

Read more » Controversy at 2022 WSOP Event #38: Phil Hellmuth's Chips swiped on Break

It looks like more and more players, including Phil Hellmuth, have tested positive for COVID at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas.

Read more » Phil Hellmuth and other poker stars test Positive for COVID at the WSOP 2022

The start of 2022 will see yet another intense heads-up battle between Phil Hellmuth and Tom Dwan on High Stakes Duel III.

Scheduled on January 26, the highly-anticipated poker game is a $400,000 heads-up match between the two poker star players. The match will be aired on PokerGO at 5pm PT so fans have the opportunity to watch the entire action. Though it is the third round of High Stakes Duel, it is actually the second match featuring these two rivals.

Read more » Phil Hellmuth vs Tom Dwan in $400,000 High Stakes Duel Rematch

On October 17 Sunday, at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, Phil Hellmuth has done it again.

Together with his wife, friends and dozens of fans watching at the PokerGO WSOP main stage, Phil Hellmuth finally captured his 16th WSOP gold bracelet.

Read more » Phil Hellmuth wins Record 16th WSOP Bracelet

Who are the most famous poker players of all time? Discover the list of poker celebrities and much more information in this article.

Poker has remained one of the most popular games for years. The fact is that it requires having brilliant analytical and logical skills, as well as a bit of luck. Millions of people prefer playing this card game and even earn good money. So, who are the leading poker players you should know about? How much money do they earn? How did common people become celebrities in the field of poker? It's time to find all the truth about playing this card game and the possible incomes you can earn if you try it too. 

Read more » 5 Most Famous Poker Players Ever

For most of the year, most land-based casinos and poker rooms have been forced to close their doors and live tournaments were cancelled, even the 2020 World Series of Poker wasn't spared, due to the viral pandemic. As a ripple effect, live streams and live poker on TV also suffered.

Amid the challenges, PokerGO found a way to offer fans a new show to watch - High Stakes Duel. Two episodes have been aired already, and based from this the show has proved to be quite popular within the poker community.

Read more » Round 3 High Stakes Duel of Hellmuth vs. Esfandiari

Event #10 of the 2019 WSOP Europe has crowned its latest winner, and this time it is Besim Hot, who has become the second Swiss champion to take down the said event.

2019 WSOP Europe

• Event #10: €25,500 Mixed Games Championship
• Entrants: 45
• Venue: King's Resort, Rozvadov, Czech Republic
• Prize pool: €1,068,750

Phil Hellmuth criticized for "going south" as he demanded money from Mike Matusow during a televised cash game at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles.

At the end of August, big poker stars gathered for a high stakes cash game at Live At the Bike! with JJ De La Garza as the episode's commentator.

The players were Phil Hellmuth, Mike "The Mouth" Matusow, Antonio Esfandiari, Daniel ‘Jungleman' Cates, Brandon Cantu, Bill Klein, Garrett Adelstein, Nick Vertucci and Randall Emmett. Blinds were set at $50/$100/$200 but since they are not your ordinary poker pros who like to play it safe, stakes are expected to increase quickly.

Read more » LATB High Stakes Game sees Matusow Losing Big, Phil Hellmuth Blows Up and Storms Off Set

Phil Ivey has been spotted playing a tournament last week at the 2019 WSOP, and to make things more interesting, he’s at the same table with his namesake, Phil Hellmuth.

How would you feel if you’re sandwiched between two great poker pros, a 10-time and a 15-time WSOP bracelet winner?

Read more » Phil Ivey spotted at 2019 WSOP Tournament

For many poker players, challenges and prop bets make their life even more exciting when they sometime want to get away from the humdrum of constant grinding they do at the poker tables.

This particular challenge involves Phil Hellmuth (left) aka the Poker Brat and Rob Yong (right), the Dusk Till Dawn Casino owner.

Read more » Phil Hellmuth Challenged by Rob Yong to Five $100,000 Heads up NLHE Matches

American poker pro Phil Hellmuth has shared his poker-related goals for 2019 Twitter on Sunday, March 3.

The 54-year-old poker player has an impressive portfolio: 15 WSOP gold bracelets, 136 career cashes and almost $23 million in total earnings. Despite letting his achievements do the talking at most times, he obviously loves doing self-promotion, and a lot at that.

Read more » Phil Hellmuth shares his 2019 Poker Goals

The 15-time WSOP bracelet champ Phil Hellmuth is going to host a poker seminar at the upcoming partypoker LIVE MILLIONS South America festival, and the best thing about it is that it's absolutely free and open to everyone!

Read more » Phil Hellmuth to Host Free Master Class at partypoker LIVE MILLIONS South America

For those who have known and heard of Phil Hellmuth, people will mostly remember him via his nickname Poker Brat because of his temperamental personality, usually melting down at times when he loses huge amounts in high-stakes poker games.

Read more » Phil Hellmuth Loses $95K in NLHE Aria Cash Game, but Happy for his NBA Friend Winning

Phil Hellmuth finally obtains his first title since winning his record 15th WSOP bracelet last year.

The Poker Brat beat six players in heads-up showdowns to win the 2019 Borgata Winter Poker Open heads-up event held in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He was the last man standing in a player field of 64 in Event #16: $1,590 NLHE Heads-Up and bagged $37,248. This is actually Phil Hellmuth's very first Borgata Poker Open trophy.

Read more » Borgata Winter Poker Open Heads-Up Event won by Phil Hellmuth

Phil Hellmuth is known to engage in various prop bets not concerning poker. Yesterday, the Poker Brat agreed on a tennis prop bet that specifies he must at least return one out of 20 serves versus a pro tennis player. He went through the challenge and was successful not only in returning a serve but made some extra cash along the way.

Read more » Phil Hellmuth wins $23K on Tennis Prop Bet

Last week, Phil Hellmuth was on the Domenick Nati Show. Even though he was mainly discussing his newest book #Positivity: You Are Always In The Right Place At The Right Time, somewhere along the way a topic came about in which he said he's helping NBA player Draymond Green with his poker game.

Read more » Phil Hellmuth promotes Positivity Book and talks about NBA Star Draymond Green on Domenick Nati Show

Throughout the years, charity poker events have proven to be something that works in raising money for good causes, and this one event in California managed to get an extremely famous host on Sunday night.

It's quite an unusual crossover of ESPN's World Series of Poker meets E!'s Keeping Up With The Kardashians in this charity poker tournament.

Read more » Phil Hellmuth and the Kardashians Raise Dollars and Bitcoins for Charity Poker

It looks like Phil Hellmuth can't stop smiling, because he has finally won the 15th bracelet of his poker career in this year's WSOP Event #71 $5,000 NLHE (30-min levels) and he even has a plump sum of $485,082 to take home to his wife!

Read more » 2018 WSOP: Event #71: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em won by Phil Hellmuth for $485,082 and 15th Career Bracelet

On July 15, 2018, "the WSOP and One Drop announce the return of The BIG ONE for One Drop, a $1 million buy-in tournament capped at a maximum of 48 players and the most significant charity initiative in poker history.

Read more » WSOP 2018: Negreanu, Hellmuth, Ivey among contenders for $1 Million Buy-in WSOP Tournament ‘The Big One for One Drop'

Phil Hellmuth is famous for winning 14 WSOP bracelets so far and has over $22 million in live tournament earnings under his belt, but one Uber driver thinks he's obnoxious and cheap.

Read more » Phil Hellmuth ‘obnoxious and cheap', says Uber driver

On October 7, Doug ‘WCGRider' Polk uploaded a Youtube video showing his one-on-one basketball match against Phil Hellmuth in Pittsburgh, a 10-1 odds on a three-point shot on the first try without even warming up. It is Polk's $10,000 versus Helmuth's $1,000. Guess who had the most fun and won in the end?

Read more » Doug Polk vs Phil Hellmuth Basketball $10,000 Prop Bet

The second round of the King of the Hill match courtesy of Poker Night in America has been scheduled on October 6 and 7 (Friday and Saturday) at the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Read more » Doug Polk shall Host Poker Night in America King of the Hill II

The winner of the 2017 High Roller for One Drop victor Doug Polk shall be facing off against the world's all-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth for a massive $200,000 on the 4th week of August at the Rivers Casino located just outside of Albany, New York.

Read more » Doug Polk vs Phil Hellmuth in Inaugural 50K buy-in Heads-up Poker Event

King's Casino (Rozvadov, Czech Republic) will host its first World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) One Drop High Roller along with a Little One for One Drop tourney in November. The flagship tournament has a massive €10,000,000 guarantee and 50 players have already committed to play it by forking out a €11,000 non-refundable deposit each.

Read more » King's Casino To Host WSOPE One Drop Tourney (€10,000,000 Guarantee)

14-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth made a short guest appearance on the latest episode of award nominated Showtime drama show  ‘Billions', which is produced by Rounders creator Brian Koppelman. Hellmuth pretty much plays himself hosting a charity event for the rich and successful in the episode titled ‘Optimal Play'.

Read more » Phil Hellmuth In Episode of Popular TV Show 'Billions'

It's rather unusual that live tournaments with buy-ins around $1,000 attract many (if any) players from the poker elite, but the $1,100 Omaha Hi-Low/Stud Hi-Low event at the 2017 L.A. Poker Classic managed to do just that.

Read more » Phil Hellmuth Defeats Mike Matusow To Win Side Event

With just about 3 weeks to go until the 2015 WSOP Main Event final table, Phil Hellmuth announced via a video clip last Tuesday that he will coach November Niner Federico Butteroni, who will bring the smallest stack to the final table (15 big blinds). Hellmuth is hopeful, though. Well, he must be since he has decided to dedicate five days of his life to prepare Butteroni for the final table, where a first-place prize of $7,680,021 is at stake.Read more » Phil Hellmuth To Coach November 9 Finalists

14-time World Series of Poker gold bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth answered questions on reddit.com over the weekend. It was a so-called ASK ME ANYTHING (AMA) interview, which made it possible for anyone to ask him anything under the sun. Here are the highlights...

Read more » Phil Hellmuth Answers Fan Questions

The second day of the $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em event began with 327 players and concluded with just 41. Timur Margolin finished the day out in front with 1.4 million in chips. Close behind him is Raghav Bansal, who was the chip leader for a long time on Day 2, with 1.2 million.

Read more » 2015 WSOP: Phil Hellmuth Amongst Final 41 In Event #47

Phil Hellmuth has just extended his lead further on the WSOP gold bracelet leaderboard after picking up his 14th bracelet in the $10,000 buy-in Razz Championship (Event #17).

Read more » 2015 WSOP: Phil Hellmuth Wins A 14th Bracelet!

Event #17: $10,000 Razz Championship is down to 12 players after two days of play. Although Adam Owen sits at top of the chip counts heading into Day 3, all eyes will be on Phil Hellmuth when the cards are back in the air.

Read more » 2015 WSOP: Phil Hellmuth Among Final 12 in Razz Championship

The main idea behind a charity poker tournament is to collect money for the less fortunate. It's not that common that players actually leave a chairty tournament with more than their buy-in back.

Read more » Flopped Royal Flush At Charity Event - Won $100,000!

As you probably already know there will be no $1,000,000 tourney (Big One for One Drop) at this summer's World Series of Poker, however, there will be a $500,000 buy-in event called Super High Roller Bowl (SHRB) in the beginning of July - just days before the 2015 WSOP Main Event begins. 

Read more » Almost 60 Players Confirmed for $500K Buy-in Tournament!

It's always nice to see famous (and wealthy) poker players taking part in tournaments with small buy-ins... and it's even more fantastic to see them come out victorious at the end of it all!

Read more » Phil Hellmuth Wins 2014 Pittsburgh Poker Open!

In case you missed it, the World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific (WSOP APAC) kicked off on October 2nd at Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. The AUD$10,000 buy-in Main Event started on Sunday and Day 2 is currently on a dinner break. There are approximately 100 players left of 329 entries. The chip leader is Ivan Zhou with 293k. Jackie Glazier is in second place with 285k.

Read more » WSOP APAC: Day 2 Underway

Businessman, entrepreneur, politician, basketball manager and poker pro. Antonas "Tony G" Gouga has many irons in the fire to say the least. Last week he could cross off another thing on his "bucket list" as he got married to his girlfriend of two years, Aiste Slapokaite.

Read more » Tony G Is Now A Married Man

No bracelet number 14 for Mr. Phil Hellmuth this time as he ended up in 6th place in Event #61: Seven Card Stud ($10,000 buy-in). Well, a big congratulations to Matt "Grapes" Grapenthien for besting an extremly tough field of 102 players to claim his first gold bracelet and $268,473 in prize money!

Grepenthien, a well respected online cash game grinder with some minor live tournament cashes dating back to 2004, overcame multiple chip disadvantages during the 9-hour final table, including the heads-up match against Todd Brunson.

Read more » 2014 WSOP - Event #61: Seven Card Stud: Matt Grapenthien Defeats Todd Brunson For The Title

The $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship attracted a field of 102 players when it started two days ago. Leading the way into the third and final day of the tournament is Todd Brunson, son of poker legend Doyle Brunson.

Read more » 2014 WSOP - Event #61: Seven Card Stud: Todd Brunson Leads Final 9; Hellmuth In 3rd place!

Vanessa Selbst Wins Event #2: Mixed Max No-Limit Hold'em

Although Jason Mo dominated a great part of the final heads-up match of Event #2: Mixed Max No-Limit Hold'em, it was Vanessa Selbst who stood tall as the winner at the end of all! Besides the top prize of $871,148 (She now has over $10 million in career live tournament earnings), Selbst received her third WSOP gold bracelet for besting a field of 131 entries! Jason Mo received $538,308 for his second place finish, which was his third runner-up finish in a WSOP event since 2010!

Read more » 2014 WSOP: Here Are The Winners Of Event #2 - #7

As a part of the annual fund-raiser weekend known as Tiger Jam, which raises money to the Tiger Woods Foundation that helps improving the health, education and welfare of children in the USA, an exclusive 50-player $10,000 buy-in charity tournament (presented by the World Poker Tour) was played last Friday at the Mandalay Bay Hotel casino in Las Vegas.

Read more » Tiger's Poker Night

68 of 328 players are "alive 'n' kicking" after two days of play at World Poker Tour World Championship (sponsored by PartyPoker) in Atlantic City, USA. The chip leader is Eric Afriat (Champions Club) with 1,003,000 and he's well ahead of the rest of the field.

Read more » WPT World championship: 68 Players Remain; Eric Afriat Leads With 1,003,000

Hedge fund manager and poker pro Dan Shak will be hosting the annual "All In for Kids" charity poker event on Thursday. The event will be held at the Mandarin Oriental in New York and will be filmed for national television and air as a part of a future World Poker Tour broadcast on Fox Sports Net.

In addition to wealthy CEO's, celebrities and athletes, poker pros including Vanessa Selbst, Mike Sexton and Phil Hellmuth will participate in the tournament. The event has raised more than $4.3 million over the past five years. All money raised will be donated to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Event #8: €25,600 High Roller, the final bracelet event at the 2013 WSOPE in Paris, kicked off yesterday and attracted 75 entrants. The first day lasted for six levels and approximately 62 players made it through the day. Canada's Sorel Mizzi will be leading the way with 268,800 chips to the second day, and not far behind are big names such as Scott Seiver (248,200), Antonio Esfandiari (229,000) and Phil Ivey (182,800)

The cards will be back in the air at 1.00 PM local time and registration will remain open for the first 5 levels, so hopefully Phil Hellmuth will join in on the action and take a shot at bracelet number 14!

Event #2: €1,100 No-Limit Hold'em Re-Entry saw 659 entries and the remaining 9 players will return to play later on today and battle it out at the final table - where a first prize of €129,700 and a WSOP gold bracelet are at stake!

Read more » 2013 WSOP Europe: Event #2 and Event #3 Updates

Five events of the 44th annual WSOP concluded during the weekend. Here's a short summary.

Event #12: $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em
535 players was seated when event #12 started on the 5th of June.After two days and some seven hours, there was only one player left - Lev Rofman. Mr.Rofman left the event as the last man standing and $166,136 in prize winnings. The last table below:Read more » WSOP 2013 Update

On Tuesday, WSOP announced the 2013 WSOP Europe schedule. The 7th Annual WSOPE offers seven gold bracelet events and will run October 12 to October 25, 2013 in Paris, France. The highlights of the tournament will be a brand new €25,000+€600 No Limit Hold'em High Roller event and, of course, the main event. Last year the main event was played in Cannes and Phil Hellmuth bested a field of 420 players and laid hands on $1.3 million and his 13th bracelet! The organisers of the tournament believe that this year's main event will attract more players thanks to the move to Paris.

"New tournament dates and 12 million Parisians have us aiming for the largest Main Event in Europe," said WSOP Executive Director Ty Stewart.  "Baguettes and Bracelets; Champagne and Cash; we think is a winning recipe for the 2013 WSOP Europe."

Click here to check the complete tournament schedule.

A total of 146 players signed up for the 2013 World Poker Tour World Championship. The tournament kicked off last Saturday at Bellagio in Las Vegas and now, after two days of play, there are 66 players left. Mike Linster will bring the largest stack (744,000) to the tables tonight and Dan Shak (617,300) and Antonio Esfandiari (536,100) are ranked second and third.

Apart from Linster, Shak and Esfandiari, there are quite a few poker stars alive and kicking, including Jake Cody (Day 2's Players of The Day) Phil Hellmuth (307k), Matt Salsberg (130k), Erick Lindgren (124k), Daniel Negreanu (124), Jason Mercier (109k) and Scotty Nguyen (81k).The money bubble will burst when 15 players remain ($49,210 minimum cash); the winner will take home an incredible $1,150,297!Read more » WPT World Championship: 66 Players Remain After 2 Days of Play

The sixth edition of PartyPoker Premier League is now running.The first heat of Group A concluded on Sunday after the former world champion Jonathan Duhamel defeated Sam Trickett heads up.

Place, Player, Points, Cash
1. Jonathan Duhamel 16 $32,000
2. Sam Trickett 11 $22,000
3. Marvin Rettenmaier 8 $16,000
4. Daniel Negreanu 6 $12,000
5. Phil Hellmuth 4 $8,000
6. Antonio Esfandiari 3 $6,000
7. Daniel Cates 2 $4,000
8. Scott Seiver 0 $0

Read more » PartyPoker Premier League VI