2026 World Series of Poker May 26th - July 15th
Hard to root against Phily boy
Even though he's an egotistical unaware *******
With a huge crowd gathered around the feature table, Martin Kabrhel had become Hellmuth's number one fan on the rail, offering constant words of encouragement while also acting as a human calculator by informing Hellmuth of Rabinowitz's exact chip count at the end of every hand.
isn't that against the rules!
Robbi Jade Lew on the verge of winning her first bracket in the $1k super turbo.
If She Wong, I don’t wanna be right.
Tournaments are all about determining who the best players are
super turbo ft looks like it'd be quick fun to watch as almost everyone would be out of chips if they played no hands for 2 or 3 orbits.
This is event #100, yeah that seems excessive but they keep trying to go more and more and more...
No bracelet. Hellmuth said "it feels like you are on a draw" and called a turn shove with A2o on 2894, 2-flush on flop and lost to 97o.
That’s a very strange thing to say, and play to make, in conjunction with how he played the K5 hand.
Let’s try to follow it. Phil could’ve shoved with two pair ott on a very drawy board, been called by a worse two pair and won the tournament, but he just checked it down, and villain announced “Wow, the tournament should be over.”
Later, villain shoves ott on a very drawy board, Phil announces “it feels like you are on a draw”, calls with garbage, loses to top pair and is eliminated.
So, Phil put Villain on a draw, because he now knows villain would’ve put HIM on a draw the previous hand, but this hand villain really would be on a draw, hoping Phil thinks he actually has a strong hand like Phil did the first hand.
^ "PokerGo coverage (compared with prior free streams) was vastly reduced"Would disagree with that, those early years only final tables were shown, and some didn't have hole cards. Past few years PokerGo gave us Days 3-5 of PPC all with hole cards. Amazing comprehensive coverage.But yes this year completely agree, just show the poker. Budget could have been 10-20% with more vi
It's high time poker was shown on free-to-air TV; that would help foster a culture of the game.
Telecast Summary, for me
Likes:
Main Event coverage starting on day 1
Day shift plus night shift broadcast teams that made daily coverage extensive
More of Nick and Ali than ever before
Bracelet awards to the winners being broadcast
The shout out to Lon and Norm giving them short humorous segments, but keeping them away from the unfolding action
Dislikes:
No games other than NLHE
No free streams of all the $10K championship events for poker aficionados
Countdown pre-show longer than necessary
Broadcast details inferior to current standards: lack of a running tally of players remaining/total entries, lack of payout information after each and every in-the-money knockout, no country flags, etc.
No inexpensive streams of final tables with superstar participants
I'm sure I'm missing a few pluses and minuses. What do you think?
Opponent may have said the tournament should be over to tilt Hellmuth. He had top two pair OOP with K5 on a 3-flush board on the turn and 4-flush board on the river. He might have been playing for a checkraise on the turn. Just shoving would have been a big overbet.
That said, his play in those HHs seems very nonstandard now. Some of the old school approaches might have been difficult to play against. For example, he open limped a lot, not from the SB. He also seemed to bet larger than is standard in late stages of tournaments in some situations, sometimes as a bluff.
Telecast Summary, for meLikes:Main Event coverage starting on day 1Day shift plus night shift broadcast teams that made daily coverage extensiveMore of Nick and Ali than ever beforeBracelet awards to the winners being broadcastThe shout out to Lon and Norm giving them short humorous segments, but keeping them away from the unfolding actionDislikes:No games other than NLHENo fre
"lack of a running tally of players remaining/total entries" this tilted me so much during the broadcast of the main, they used to have a pretty accurate 100/9000 counter always or whatever.
Hellmuth's play seemed to have some strength to it from the HHs without hole cards. For example, he limped UTG/CO, SB called, BB checked. Flop was 4T8,r, checked to Hellmuth, who bets 63% pot, only SB calls. Turn is ace, completing the badugi, check, Hellmuth bets 75% pot, fold. Hellmuth has a huge range advantage when the ace hit on the turn. Hellmuth has more aces preflop, and could be "cbetting" with one, but the hands that connect with the flop for SB don't include many aces.
It looked like he could have not much and be bluffing, but hard to call the large bet without an ace, which it was really unlikely SB had. So the old school approaches of limping and larger sizings from a good player might be tricky to play against.
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Telecast Summary, for meLikes:Main Event coverage starting on day 1Day shift plus night shift broadcast teams that made daily coverage extensiveMore of Nick and Ali than ever beforeBracelet awards to the winners being broadcastThe shout out to Lon and Norm giving them short humorous segments, but keeping them away from the unfolding actionDislikes:No games other than NLHENo fre
10K mystery bounty was annoying coverage. Showed us Day 1 with no bounties in play instead of a 10K mixed final table. Then on later Days they could not tell us what bounties were left which is both interesting and impacts decisions.
All of your pluses we already had last year except for Lon and Norm segments which I'd put in negative and more Platt (which is neutral)
There were a ton of commercials in Main Event Coverage.
No bracelet for Hellmuth.
Hellmuth said "it feels like you are on a draw" and called a turn shove with A2o on 2894, 2-flush on flop and lost to 97o.
That’s a very strange thing to say, and play to make, in conjunction with how he played the K5 hand.Let’s try to follow it. Phil could’ve shoved with two pair ott on a very drawy board, been called by a worse two pair and won the tournament, but he just checked it down, and villain announced “Wow, the tournament should be over.”Later, villain shoves ott on a very drawy board, P
Opponent may have said the tournament should be over to tilt Hellmuth. He had top two pair OOP with K5 on a 3-flush board on the turn and 4-flush board on the river. He might have been playing for a checkraise on the turn. Just shoving would have been a big overbet. That said, his play in those HHs seems very nonstandard now. Some of the old school approaches might have been di
Hellmuth's play seemed to have some strength to it from the HHs without hole cards. For example, he limped UTG/CO, SB called, BB checked. Flop was 4T8,r, checked to Hellmuth, who bets 63% pot, only SB calls. Turn is ace, completing the badugi, check, Hellmuth bets 75% pot, fold. Hellmuth has a huge range advantage when the ace hit on the turn. Hellmuth has more aces preflop, an
I'm gonna say it ... Phil Hellmuth blew it.
The most successful nit in poker calls off his tournament with bottom pair, because he thought his opponent might be on a draw.
Ok, this makes no sense though. Because if we’re saying somehow the automatic shuffler set the deck exactly the same, we’re also saying that the dealer then didn’t cut the deck two hands in a row? Or perfectly cut the deck in the exact same spot two hands in a row to coincidentally overlap with this anomaly?
Everyone that has ever played in a casino in person or watched a video of a poker game has seen a dealer take their hand over a tall stack of chips and palm off exactly twenty chips. Remember this point...
Now that the WSOP is mostly over and this thread is winding down until the final table of the main event, I thought it would be fun to bump this post. It never got explained in this thread, I don't have X but I'm guessing someone figured it out there. What apparently happened during this year's WSOP is a table dealt a hand and then the very next hand dealt everyone the same exact cards as the hand before with also the same exact flop. People were thinking this was astronomically not likely to be possible. But the answer is possibly quite simple. The dealer instead of pushing the shuffle button on the automatic shuffler instead pushed the sort button and sorted the deck ace, king, queen, etc. both deals. And then as I stated above how an experienced dealer can easily palm a tall stack of chips and grab exactly twenty chips, a competent dealer can routinely cut a deck of cards exactly in half.
What seemed astronomically unlikely and mind boggling can be explained away easily.
It seems a lot more likely that an incompetent dealer forgot to cut two hands in a row with the machine on sort, than that they cut exactly the same twice in a row.
But I am very curious if the floors went to the camera to see what happened. It's odd there wasn't more attention paid to this...
Does anyone know where I can find a list of the online bracelet event results for this year?
It seems a lot more likely that an incompetent dealer forgot to cut two hands in a row with the machine on sort, than that they cut exactly the same twice in a row.
But I am very curious if the floors went to the camera to see what happened. It's odd there wasn't more attention paid to this...
Based on anecdotal evidence, forgetting to cut two hands in a row is probably something quite unlikely.
As it is far more likely that the dealer cut twice, the actual probability of the second cut in the same location as the first cut is fairly reasonable, e.g. 1 in 10 or so.
Clearly there was a cheating device/camera hidden/vibrating ham inside Phils sad sandwich from JaredWay!
Also what does "in true Hellmuth fashion, he somehow started eating it from the inside out" even mean lol? Have i been eating subs incorrectly my whole life???
Does anyone know where I can find a list of the online bracelet event results for this year?
Bump
Select events from the list or list 'em all.
Everyone that has ever played in a casino in person or
Seems to jive with fact that cutoff and button were dealt K6 and A7 respectively. And then board 234KJ with burns being Ace and Queen
Some guy mentioned this in discussion
Clearly there was a cheating device/camera hidden/vibrating ham inside Phils sad sandwich from JaredWay!
Also what does "in true Hellmuth fashion, he somehow started eating it from the inside out" even mean lol? Have i been eating subs incorrectly my whole life???
There is a clip of helmuth eating a burrito from the side if that makes sense instead of long ways, there also several other clips of him eating sandwiches and what not in non standard ways. Google it if you dare
Clearly there was a cheating device/camera hidden/vibrating ham inside Phils sad sandwich from JaredWay!
Also what does "in true Hellmuth fashion, he somehow started eating it from the inside out" even mean lol Have i been eating subs incorrectly my whole life
It cannot be emphasized enough how big of a life stack Jared torched.
Current standings but Paradise Tournaments in december count, so won't know winner until then
dude got on my nerves
We talking about a different hand. Jumalon raised in MP and shovel flatted in the big blind.
When trainer jams the flop on that last hand, it might actually be better for jumalon to fold, keep the bubble going and continue to run the table over.
qft
And also, poker is the easiest game in the world when you can see the other guy’s holecards, but you know what?It’s ok to lose a small pot hu oop with pocket queens and deep stacks, tourney or cash, when an ace flops after three bets pf.It really is. It’s ok. Your peepee won’t shrink. You won’t get p1z0wnrd if he didn’t have an ace. You won’t get cucked watching the stream late
i lol'd
