![]() ![]() (2) Eric Persson was hitting hand after hand after hand and Phil was getting nothing. (1) Persson repeatedly crossed the line and his jabs got viler as he realized the tournament’s director wasn’t going to do anything (until they were warned). Hellmuth doesn’t cross the line though and that’s what seems to be lost on a lot of the poker world after Thursday night’s heads-up match.Īnd after Phil knew he was going to lose the match, on the last hand, he congratulated Eric Persson for successfully getting under his skin.įrom where I’m sitting, I don’t see how anyone can watch that heads-up match between Phil Hellmuth and Eric Persson and think that Phil had a shot in hell. Now, the flip side of all this is that Phil Hellmuth has had the most successful tournament poker career of any player in history and he’s done it using similar psychological tactics. Hellmuth asking the floor to give the other guy a penalty for berating him, while simultaneously calling him a mother fucking asshole. What I just witnessed was hard to put into words. He dishes it out for decades, but can’t handle one dude giving it back to him. Hellmuth acting like the poor victim cause that guy was being mean to him. What is Daniel Negreanu’s goal with these tweets exactly? No one in poker history is more deserving of behavior penalties than you /vam94af2Pi This actually led to Hellmuth blocking Negreanu on Twitter last night:įor decades you have ruthlessly berated people at the table, and now one guy (Persson) gives you a taste of your own medicine and you cry like a child And now Daniel seemed to be reveling in the fact that Phil lost heads-up after being berated with obscenities. So when he started attacking Phil’s legacy last year it was incredibly odd. Hellmuth has 16 World Series of Poker bracelets, 6 more than the people in second place (Phil Ivey, Johnny Chan, and Doyle Brunson).ĭaniel Negreanu has 6 bracelets. The Poker World Reacts To The Shocking Matchĭaniel Negreanu has a bit of a reputation as a nice guy in poker but he’s worked his absolute hardest to squander that over the past year by attacking Phil Hellmuth’s legacy as the best tournament player ever. And just as an FYI, there is some vulgar language in the videos and tweets below. Not with the crappy hands Phil was getting and because Phil allowed himself to be psychologically manipulated in a way that’s never been seen before at the poker table. It’s wild to write this but Phil Hellmuth really didn’t stand a chance against Eric Persson. He hid quad Kings in a heads-up match, one of the best possible hands in poker! On top of that, Eric was getting some of the best hands imaginable. Phil Hellmuth is the most accomplished tournament poker player in history but he didn’t stand a chance against Eric Persson who used vulgar and vile insults to put get under Phil’s skin and put him on tilt. And there’s a video below of the full heads-up match so you can see just how surreal it was. For anyone who isn’t familiar with that format, it’s a “heads-up” tournament where players face each other 1 vs 1 in each round. Phil Hellmuth faced Eric Persson in the $25,000 PGT Heads-Up Showdown Round of 32. The poker world was hit by a tidal wave on Thursday night. This heads-up match has rocked the poker world as Persson hurled vile insults at Phil, got under his skin like Hellmuth does to others, and the tournament director had to get involved.In the $25,000 PGT Heads-Up Showdown Round of 32, poker legend Phil Hellmuth squared off against Eric Persson. ![]()
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