An odd Twitter row broken out between some of poker’s great and good after Phil Galfond revamped his opinion on fellow Phil of the Hellmuth variety from good to great.
It’s widely recognized by followers that Phil Hellmuth is a living poker legend. With 15 World Series of Poker bangles, roughly $24 million in the bank from live poker tournaments alone,’ The Poker Brat’ is a self-styled pantomime villain but likewise a world champion par excellence.
Phil Galfond wanted to catch everyone up with his opinion on the great man, however and that included ascribing him with some kudos after he earned two High-pitched Stakes Duels against Antonio Esfandiari.
We so often criticize the plays we read on Tv from the convenience of our couches. I think it’s only fair to too pay recognition where credit is due.I recently watched @phil_hellmuth on @PokerGO’s #HighStakesDuel& wrote down some thoughts. pic.twitter.com/ AEOVEeczZQ
— Phil Galfond (@ PhilGalfond) October 7, 2020
Cue absolute mayhem, with the high roller gave piercing hard-bitten on the enticement the second in landed in the spray. Hellmuth’s credibility is being confused with the fields in which he plays or even the game he plays.
Hellmuth’s speciality- in case you didn’t know- is multi-table tournament poker with a good deal of entrants, mainly representing no restriction hold’em. They’re a different recreation to Super High Rollers, but they’re occasions where Hellmuth positions up 100% of his own buy-in, rather than selling action for one.
That didn’t stop some of the world’s best hounding Hellmuth for not being up to much in $300,000 buy-in episodes, despite Hellmuth having cashed in both a Super High Roller Bowl and One Drop event in recent years. Fedor Holz- something of an authority in GTO made he co-created the Pokercode website which promises to train the poker upper-clas in this very area- was pretty insulting of Hellmuth’s endowments:
We so often criticize the plays we realize on Tv from the comfort of our sofas. I think it’s only fair to also render ascribe where credit is due.I recently watched @phil_hellmuth on @PokerGO’s #HighStakesDuel& wrote down some thoughts. pic.twitter.com/ AEOVEeczZQ
— Phil Galfond (@ PhilGalfond) October 7, 2020
“Totally fair. To be clear, my previous mind was more or less exactly what you wrote here.” said Galfond in direct response. “What I realized[ previously] wasn’t HUNL technological familiarity, ” wrote Galfond. “It was an uncanny ability to assess and adapt to every place he found himself in. Solely, in the second match, Phil’s reads on each and every hand were incredible, and he espoused ways that, while often unconventional, intelligently benefited on his( dead-on) spoke of each situation.”
Galfond even met it in himself to apologise to Hellmuth , not something necessary to a boy who is actually moderately meagre formerly you hack through the beds of pantomime villain antics and bluff that are a part of his poker personality. He was certainly that during both High-pitched Ventures Duel epsiodes, despite hit Esfandiari both period, ascribing his oppoinent with being a great player.
Phil Hellmuth’s It’s exactly that- a persona. Yet Olivier Busquet wasn; t having any of it.
We so often criticize the plays we witness on TV from the consolation of our sofas. I think it’s only fair to too generate approval where credit is due.I recently watched @phil_hellmuth on @PokerGO’s #HighStakesDuel& wrote down some thoughts. pic.twitter.com/ AEOVEeczZQ
— Phil Galfond (@ PhilGalfond) October 7, 2020
This elicited an indignant response from Farah Galfond- Phil’s wife- which led to an even longer rant from Busquet.
— Farah Galfond (@ Farah_Galfond) October 7, 2020
Because Hellmuth doesn’t regularly vanquished super high roller level events, he shouldn’t be considered one of the best? This seem a outlandish debate, and not one that is even borne out by comparison to Busquet as two examples, who in the last three years has only cashed formerly in super high roller happens, a 3rd-place finish in the $25,000 -entry Seminole Hard Rock High Roller event with 115 enters his only creditable live rating at anything like the nosebleeds he talks about.
Poker legend Doyle’ Texas Dolly’ Brunson too protected Phil Hellmuth, again invoking his 15 World Series of Poker bracelets. It’s amazing how many musicians question how easy these are to win, having won so many less than the man they announce’ The Poker Brat’. He’s not the one who comes off examining brattish in this ongoing social media discussion, which at times turned towards exceedingly polarized beliefs on a person who authorizes deeper discussion. Stay adjusted to Calvin Ayre as we will be bringing you accurately that very soon in the coming weeks.
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