Top Trending: WSOP Bracelet Record Winner Phil Hellmuth: 'No One Believes in My Cash Game Prowess'
Phil Hellmuth has won 17 World Series of Poker bracelets, the most of any other player out there. Scroll down for all the latest gambling headlines from around the globe and the top trending gambling articles at Gambling911.com.
He's a great poker player, nobody can argue with that.
Or can they?
When it comes to cash games, Hellmuth argues he gets no respect.
The self-proclaimed "Poker Brat" went on an epic rant Thursday.
From Hellmuth:
No respect (they have no clue)
I won a fortune in cash games since 2012 (many millions of dollars), much of it televised, and somehow, no one believes in my cash game prowess (in this poll)
Reminds me of my tourney play. As I climbed the ladder of @WSOP
wins since 2010, many top pros didn’t think I was very good (I kept winning, most of my doubters went broke)
Since 2020, I mostly only play @wsop
tourneys, have made a ton of final tables, and folks don’t seem to believe in me!
Finally, I went 9-2 playing heads up vs the world’s best poker players, and somehow my opponents said, on the record, they were favorites over me before EVERY single match. Meanwhile, I knocked them off one-by-one
Poker is the only sport I know of, that you can crush the game, and folks think you are not a good player. How? You crush on tape, people then watch your hole cards, people then don’t understand what you’re doing, and then some idiot commentator (or smart commentator) evaluates your play based on their understanding of the game
No one understands what I do, or how I do it. This hurts from a “respect” point of view (my Ego hurts right now!), but is great for me. Thank goodness they don’t understand!!
I’ll win $10M more playing poker cash games ($25M total), I’ll win 7 more WSOP bracelets (24 total), and they will still not respect me. Ok, fine
At the end of the day, I’ll take my 24 WSOP bracelets and the $25M I won in cash games and call it a day
When I leave poker, I guess some will say, “Yes, we know he won everything in sight, but I don’t understand how. Therefore, I believe that he was lucky.” Yep, I was “Lucky” for 60 straight years!!
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