socalpoker_j 1 Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Check out this interview with Phil Hellmuth at the EPT: Hellmuth Interview with Gum Smacking Slob Link to post Share on other sites
quadaces 0 Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 When you give money to charity it feels like I can play my fullest power! Anothe great Hellmuth line! Link to post Share on other sites
StrippersNBlow 0 Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 So he punishes himself by giving money to charity? How noble of you sir. It's amusing some people still think he's an act made entirely for TV. He also said he had never lost more than 110K of his own money in a day. Didn't he dump twice that on HSP? It was at least 150 I thought. Link to post Share on other sites
jdquads 0 Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 So he punishes himself by giving money to charity? How noble of you sir. It's amusing some people still think he's an act made entirely for TV. He also said he had never lost more than 110K of his own money in a day. Didn't he dump twice that on HSP? It was at least 150 I thought.Maybe had a backer. Link to post Share on other sites
CrazyJoe 0 Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Maybe had a backer.he for sure had a backer, he's said that he didnt have 100% of himself on HSP Link to post Share on other sites
HermanKahn 0 Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Quadaces: The best part of that line was "it's easier to win--you feel more entitled". Bwahahaha! I guess sucking out with trash hands can now be classed as an affront to mankind and a crime against humanity... Link to post Share on other sites
blakheart 3 Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 So how come all these sick beats people take in chinese poker, golf, prop bets etc. go to Ivey? Ivey seems to be in the middle of every crazy big gambling going down anywhere in the world. Link to post Share on other sites
conor_mw 0 Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 So how come all these sick beats people take in chinese poker, golf, prop bets etc. go to Ivey? Ivey seems to be in the middle of every crazy big gambling going down anywhere in the world.hahaha thats sweet phil iveys the man Link to post Share on other sites
James D 0 Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Maybe had a backer.Why would he need a backer?Didn't you know he's a billionaire?! Link to post Share on other sites
nesone 0 Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 Maybe had a backer.Yep, Phil said he only put up 20% of his buyins on HSP. Link to post Share on other sites
champsox 0 Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 Why would he need a backer?Didn't you know he's a brazillionaire?!FYP Link to post Share on other sites
StrippersNBlow 0 Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 Why would he need a backer?Didn't you know he's a billionaire?!That lowers my opinion of the guy as a gambler even more. You're a millionaire at least 10X over(probably closer to 25), you get a chance to play against people you consider your peers, and say you're as good as, if not better than, and you're only willing to bet 20 or 50K that you are. Maybe he wouldn't have played like such dogshit if he actually had something to lose. Most likely he would have played even worse, or Stupak-like. What a jopke. Link to post Share on other sites
benhoug 0 Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 The thing that amazes me is that he can possibly play CHINESE that badly. I mean, basically if you're decent at setting hands there is no advantage playing HU. Even if there is an edge, is negligible. Nobody can run that bad for that many hands, so he has to be HORRIBLE at the game. Link to post Share on other sites
showstopper24 0 Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 So he punishes himself by giving money to charity? How noble of you sir. It's amusing some people still think he's an act made entirely for TV. He also said he had never lost more than 110K of his own money in a day. Didn't he dump twice that on HSP? It was at least 150 I thought.no matter what he feels, he still gave 50k away to charity Link to post Share on other sites
ChunkyLuver69 0 Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 I think he made the thing up I bet he didnt lose anything Link to post Share on other sites
ghostlove 0 Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 hellmuth's a nasty player. hope he wins. Link to post Share on other sites
eroc824 0 Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 how is chinese poker played? Link to post Share on other sites
Seattleallstar 0 Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 maybe he is relying on the sales of his children's books...lolI nearly died from laughter when I heard that during his WSOP main event win, when they were talking about what the players did outside poker. Link to post Share on other sites
Flack_attack 0 Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 The thing that amazes me is that he can possibly play CHINESE that badly. I mean, basically if you're decent at setting hands there is no advantage playing HU. Even if there is an edge, is negligible. Nobody can run that bad for that many hands, so he has to be HORRIBLE at the game.Barry Greenstein lost over a million (over the course of months) playing Chinese with Ted Forrest a few years back, and it almost broke him. Link to post Share on other sites
HermanKahn 0 Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 I think he made the thing up I bet he didnt lose anythingNah, even I know he donked it. ZOMG, can you imagine what it must have been like to be his poor wife?? (Can you say "ringside seat at the train wreck"?) Here's my theory: if Mrs. Hellmuth was taking notes, she could eventually turn her forced-charitable-giving experience into a five-year, five-volume psychiatric magnum opus which pulls down 100K each time she wins the ultra-prestigious Templeton Positive Psychology Prize*:http://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug00/templeton.html*"These prizes are [designed] to encourage scientific investigation of the benefits produced by optimism, thanksgiving and the power of positive thinking," says Templeton, a philanthropist who made his fortune through international investing."Now if she could only win five Templeton Prizes out of the experience, what must surely have been an excruciating ordeal would virtually pay for itself. Brilliant!! ROTFLOL! Link to post Share on other sites
StrippersNBlow 0 Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 no matter what he feels, he still gave 50k away to charityTrue. Way to look at the big picture. I guess it's just like poker, it's not the decisions that matter, it's the end result. Link to post Share on other sites
HermanKahn 0 Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 True. Way to look at the big picture. I guess it's just like poker, it's not the decisions that matter, it's the end result.Bah. No matter what he did, how he felt about it or why, the bottom line is A) he had more than half a mil to blow and B ) he brought it up himself on a national broadcast and was incredibly cool about the whole thing and C) we all ought to be ashamed of ourselves for being such mean-spirited, small-time NITS about it. It's only money...I swear to God I've got a "Hetty Green" streak a mile wide, and in poker that's definitely not cool. The more I think about Hellmuth making lavish donations to charity after donking off a half a million dollars, the more I like it. You know, the great Yakuza gambler, oyabun, and finance-criminal mastermind Manabu Miyazaki has a word for this kind of character trait: they call it "TOPPAMONO." (Google for some amazing links.) It means "man of breakthrough," but the connotations are untranslatable: if you have a devil-may-care attitude toward life, push ahead and are full-bore relentless no matter what happens, and do it all with style and panache, you're "toppamono". It sort of sums up the old Yakuza values of being chivalrous, cheeky, and psychopathic all rolled into one. So yeah, donating generously to charity after being a complete jackass on the felt is definitely "toppamono". I can totally see Miyazaki doing something like that. And unlike Miyazaki, Hellmuth can be grateful he gets to keep all his fingers. Link to post Share on other sites
FileError404 0 Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 http://www.philhellmuth.com/phil-hellmuth-poker-blog.htmlOuch! Link to post Share on other sites
Dratj 0 Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 thx for the link, good read. weird how he's never lost that big before. Link to post Share on other sites
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