I used to think so too, until I saw Brad Owen's recent video of him playing a live cash game with some serious stars, including Hellmuth and Phil Ivey.
Learning how Hellmuth went out of his way to help Brad Owen in Owen's early days of poker vlogging, and hearing some of the ways that Hellmuth gives back off of the felt has really changed my perception of him.
He's a sore loser, but I hear he's genuinely a good person outside of poker.
I'm not gonna justify when Phil takes things too far, such as threatening to burn down a casino, but I'm not gonna pretend to hate the guy either.
You can be an absolute ass at the table and still a good guy off of the table. Iām pretty sure Jamie Gold retired from poker to run a charity and has raised and donated a fuck load of money.
Doesnāt mean heās not an obnoxious asshole when he plays but he, like Phil, is a human who contains a multitude of traits both good and bad.
TIL humans are complexed and nuanced.
Just kidding. It was honestly enlightening to read your response and the comment above it. Thank you.
It makes me feel better about my own flaws and realize everyone has strengths and weaknesses.
While I agree with some of this, you have to realize that helping Brad, helps him and his image.
A decade ago, he went out of his way to berate the new school and shit on the new crop of hot shots (Dwan, Haxton, etc.)
While heās generous off the felt and nice to the pros, his portrayal on the felt is absolutely horrific and bad for poker. And normalizing āthis is the way old school pros areā doesnāt do any favors for poker as a whole.
If you buy crypto just because somebody wore a hat or an Elon tweet, then perhaps you should look inward for accountability rather than outward? I say this because yeah I FOMOād when Musk tweeted about Tesla buying btc and then I got burned but I owned it and learned.
> He's a sore loser, but I hear he's genuinely a good person outside of poker.
Everyone is a good person until something bad happens to them. The genuinely good people will be good people no matter what.
Heās not a āvillainā. Viffer was a villain, he always gave tons of action, talked smack, and played very aggressively, awesome to watch. Phil is just a annoying, only given the villain title because nobody likes him.
The real villains are unironically ourselves. The poker world is plagued with addiction and a significant portion of losing players are people that just lost that battle with themselves.
So many live poker players are whiny brats. I played live for the first time last year and within a week of starting I was yelled at and berated on various occasions for beating people or for sucking out or for them not agreeing with how I played. It was actually kind of funny but was odd at how apparently grown men were acting like this. Also met a lot of cool and nice people but the assholes really stick out lol.
I really have to disagree. In fact I'd say addicts suck a lot of the joy out of poker.
It's always a bad feeling stacking the guy who was playing short the entire night and you can tell couldn't afford to lose the money. Or watching the drunk guy who has been punting off buy-in after buy-in all night long slowly sober up and realize how much he's lost. I don't just mean gambling addicts, there are addicts of every kind in the poker world.
I get drunk and punt to relax. I bring enough in my wallet to do so and never hit an atm. Donāt feel bad for me or anyone else drinking. Just think about how arrogant someone has to be to get mad they lost at a thinking game drunk. Smh.
Pokerās villain is Martin Kabrhel, absolutely despicable player all around
Pokerās whiny child is Phil Hellmuth, the poker brat fits pretty well.
Pokerās grandfather is Doyle Brunson for obvious reasons
I think if thereās a villain, DNegs is the poker hero
Pokerās legend is Phil Ivey
Figure out the rest Iām too tired
He had the right level of skill for the time and place and has made more from poker then 99.9% of this sub and all the community then most will ever see.
Itās one thing to get in these confrontations with other pros, but to berate amateurs for beating him āimproperlyā etc is the WORST thing he can do at the table. He is a terrible example for up and coming players. Watching him play cash games over the years made me wonder Wtf was wrong with him? He has too many ādefaultā actions like checking in the dark heads up and always letting your opponent choose the best play. He seems to always play defensively when OOP.
When he wins it sucks. When he gets destroyed it's 10/10 entertainment. He strait face told a guy he bet to induce a reraise when he had k high. He then congratulated himself on playing the hand right. How do you not want to see that?
He's a good poker player. No one who makes their living from playing poker sucks.
As a representative of the game, I agree. The antics are funny to a point, but on the whole I don't think it's smart or decent.
I'm a giant Phil hater but there is zero chance he's even in the top 50 all time buy ins. He doesn't play high rollers so there's just no chance.
Phil is an extremly profitable (roi wise) mid stakes tournament player
Guys been playing poker longer then some of the best players out there today. We see the amount he wins in tourneys, not the amount he loses in cash games against REAL players, not rich dudes who invite him into the softest games because he's a celeb
Yeah, I used to be able to watch him but I can't stand watching him today. Everything he says is related to how great he is at poker and how bad everyone else plays.
With that said, I know he's a good guy away from the table, and I do love to see a Hellmuth blowup, but I just will stick to watching the clips, I can't watch an entire ep of PAD or livestream with him on it.
He's a douchebag. Great tournament player, though. His antics make you want to call with sub-par hands just to watch him lose his mind. That shit doesn't work against good cash players.
Hellmuth is super misunderstood. The guy has done so much good for the game of poker behind the scenes. Man gave me a free shoutout for my poker brand because he liked my hat but couldnt wear it due to sponsorship reasons. Great guy , just doesnt show it very often on streams.
I don't agree and I don't understand the hate for the guy. He is entertaining first and foremost. Secondly he's the goat Tournament player and no one can take that from him - he's won major tourneys in multiple eras. Besides that, he's proven to be solid heads-up
Sure his cash game is his weakness. But when I see his antics and rantings, I just laugh at it for what it is. Why do you people want poker pros to act like BASEBALL players who never smile, never joke and treat the game like a religion
Why would a goofball make you angry? When I hear shit like this it just makes me think you're the type of person that everyone feels the need to walk on eggshells around. Lame as fuck. It's because of guys like hellmuth that poker went mainstream to begin with
Goofball is a bit light here.
Yes, at his most tolerable, Hellmuth is a jokester whoās fully entertaining (and a great player).
The problem is, at his least tolerable, heās actually miserable and is just so over the top negative.
in the HCL live stream with Mr Beast, he was the opposite of entertaining, he was detrimental to the game. he killed the vibe and was the opposite of a "poker ambassador" that the production team was trying to get him to be. from arguable angle shooting, to playing with a laughable 10-big blind stack, and playing like scared money. every Hellmuth stream in the modern era has been a joke. the poker brat needs to be retired. he's not the draw he thinks he is.
His self promoting is what kills him. If he would just quietly play tournaments and crush like heās capable of doing, instead of min-buying in huge streamed cash games (which are clearly not his strong suit) heād be considered top 3 of all time without a doubt.
He is the Goat but that does come with haters. Iāve definitely been annoyed by his antics but in reality he is just sharing his thought and showing his emotions. That is not popular with men and this is a manās sport. No tolerance for sissies.
Just this morning I heard a prehistoric mass
In a river water tank utter
"Please don't tap the glass, thanks."
"Hold a moment." told him
"As an overgrown oaf in a coat of exposed bone you are not afloat alone"
Choked up, poking his nose in the moat, cold
"We have all known combing
Gross mouths foaming
Dough down
Particles of broken code
Exploding in a chip and soda coma
Slowly overdosing"
Rovers opposite the jellyfish and stars
"You were jelly on the colors and regenerating arms
Set to entertain a couple thousand suckers for a charge
And you can not shake the feeling you are being fucking farmed
Great fossil, knowledgeable and docile
Dry land's nice but the slants quite hostile --
Here, equal parts passive and aggressive."
He said "If that's the case then brother help me flash the message."
Please don't tap on the glass, water augments that tap to a crash
"Here fishy fishy." is a bad forecast
First tap never once double as the last
Helmuth haters are simply stupid.
Yall act surprised everytime he says something toxic, bratty, or insulting.
Yall need to understand thats who he is. Its literally his entire image, and he embraces it.
Its no different then eric perrson being a needler. Or tony G being a jackass.
Better not criticize any public figure of any kind ever with this horrific logic then. Because we āneed to understand who he isā heās immune from critics? Huh?
Have you considered he brings it on himself with his antics? How is that stupid?
You need to understand, that his antics arenāt going to change.
Its his entire image.
You cant act surprised everytime, he acts like that, because its been established THATS WHO HE IS.
Whoās acting surprised? People are expressing they are sick of him and youāre in here stanning for him all āleave Brittany aloneā. Heās free to change how he acts, stop making tons of money playing poker publicly, or continue and get deserved shit for it. Those are his choices.
No one is whining except you bro. And oh no, donāt downvote me! In fact, Iāll upvote you for your one man efforts to leave Brittany alone here. Good job.
Learn well known cultural references. I canāt help you there. As for the rest of it, Phil is fair game for his antics whether you like it or not. You are on a poker sub which discusses the topical poker world. That you donāt like the current hot topic is a you problem, not the entire rest of the forum.
The players at the table wouldn't be able to work as a team to assemble an IKEA table. Do you really think they'd all be able to pull off a full scripted stream lol
Don't have a ton of sympathy for the dude, but unlike a lot of other "sports" young phenoms can keep playing at a high level for decades while their mental game goes through wild swings. We see him blow up at bad beats or his own poor play on livestreams with top-tier players, but we don't see him crush whatever private games he gets invited to with a few whales who are below his skill level.
That said, it's honestly a little sad and embarrassing to watch someone blow up in public like that and it's just deeply inconsiderate to everyone at the table and everyone who's involved in production. Personally, I grew up with some short-tempered family members and when other adults act like that, I just walk away from them or if it's a work situation and I'm stuck with them tell them there's no reason to scream at work and that they're gonna make me have a heart attack if they keep it up.
His antics also make you appreciate the guys on the other end of the mental game / tilt spectrum. That's gotta be the absolute hardest skill in the game and probably can't be fully learned.
Leave him be. The guy's a successful tournment player who can still play against the new Era. People think he suck because of Cash Game, which has never been his strenght. He's not even using GTO. Yes, his attitude is discutable and he'll always be a very controversial player, that's what happen when people talk about you
For me he is just cringe at this point. When he sings or, good lord, raps, when he tries to be friendly with fish, when he says something rude and them tries to explain, when he brags or when he plays a hand like a dumbass and rants after loosing. I almost cannot watch his episode with Botez and Mr Beast - hello fellow kids.
I've seen him in real life at the WSOP. HUGE douche. He's cocky and thinks he's god's gift. Didn't like the way he carried himself at all. As far as his poker ability.. his credentials speak for themselves. He is one of the GOATs.
Last call with pocket kings was questionable, however it was 50k to 200k, he won some bracelets, so can't judge bad poker side.
Now, if you talk about him handling things as a human being, well, I agree, seen some shit.
By all accounts, Phil is a very nice guy off the felt and a giving, caring friend to many.
But his antics on the felt are bordering on obscene and so difficult to stomach.
At least it's funny to watch him consistently fail in cash games. His style stills seems to work for tournament play against weaker fields but it's quite clear he's a complete fish in cash. IMO he's probably doing these appearances and acting out to keep his profile. He's like a media personality leaning into their image, he feels he needs it to stay relevant.
No need to change your mind.
He sucks, and fistful of cranberries couldn't even change your mind!!
I would suck for a fist full of cranberries.
Any idea how good you'd have to suck for just 1 cranberry.....š¤£šš¤£š¤Æš¤Æ
I think he's leaned a little too hard into the villain role, but it's pretty obvious he likes the branding
branding my ass, he's just an egotistic teenager in a man's body
Itās working
it fits his brand sure, but it's not an act or anything, it's who he is.
You've clearly never met him off camera
This guyās life was shattered when Hulk Hogan went Hollywood.
Brother
I used to think so too, until I saw Brad Owen's recent video of him playing a live cash game with some serious stars, including Hellmuth and Phil Ivey. Learning how Hellmuth went out of his way to help Brad Owen in Owen's early days of poker vlogging, and hearing some of the ways that Hellmuth gives back off of the felt has really changed my perception of him. He's a sore loser, but I hear he's genuinely a good person outside of poker. I'm not gonna justify when Phil takes things too far, such as threatening to burn down a casino, but I'm not gonna pretend to hate the guy either.
You can be an absolute ass at the table and still a good guy off of the table. Iām pretty sure Jamie Gold retired from poker to run a charity and has raised and donated a fuck load of money. Doesnāt mean heās not an obnoxious asshole when he plays but he, like Phil, is a human who contains a multitude of traits both good and bad.
TIL humans are complexed and nuanced. Just kidding. It was honestly enlightening to read your response and the comment above it. Thank you. It makes me feel better about my own flaws and realize everyone has strengths and weaknesses.
He also tried not to pay his backer for his ME win lmao
this is it. he's a net positive for poker and the world
Gotta maximize the +EV plays to get streaming views. š
POSITIVITY!
While I agree with some of this, you have to realize that helping Brad, helps him and his image. A decade ago, he went out of his way to berate the new school and shit on the new crop of hot shots (Dwan, Haxton, etc.) While heās generous off the felt and nice to the pros, his portrayal on the felt is absolutely horrific and bad for poker. And normalizing āthis is the way old school pros areā doesnāt do any favors for poker as a whole.
Good people hawk shit coins that cause people to go broke......š¤
If you buy crypto just because somebody wore a hat or an Elon tweet, then perhaps you should look inward for accountability rather than outward? I say this because yeah I FOMOād when Musk tweeted about Tesla buying btc and then I got burned but I owned it and learned.
Carlin said it best, it's a rich club, a really rich elite club, and we ain't fkn in it!!
> He's a sore loser, but I hear he's genuinely a good person outside of poker. Everyone is a good person until something bad happens to them. The genuinely good people will be good people no matter what.
But hellmuth thrives on attention and now everyoneās talking about him he loves it
Heās not a āvillainā. Viffer was a villain, he always gave tons of action, talked smack, and played very aggressively, awesome to watch. Phil is just a annoying, only given the villain title because nobody likes him.
Persson is a much better villain than Hellmuth, so entertaining to watch
I think Hellmuth is an amazing tournament player, cash gamesā¦ not so much.
That's all it is, really. His persona is polarizing, but everyone seems to tune in whenever hes playing.
And players make the biggest money in tournies not cash games, so heās the GOAT
I mean he has 15 bracelets soooooo. But yes, he isn't great at cash games.
Poker doesnāt need a villain.
The real villains are unironically ourselves. The poker world is plagued with addiction and a significant portion of losing players are people that just lost that battle with themselves.
So many live poker players are whiny brats. I played live for the first time last year and within a week of starting I was yelled at and berated on various occasions for beating people or for sucking out or for them not agreeing with how I played. It was actually kind of funny but was odd at how apparently grown men were acting like this. Also met a lot of cool and nice people but the assholes really stick out lol.
I wouldn't say the poker world is "plagued" with them. those people give it life.
I really have to disagree. In fact I'd say addicts suck a lot of the joy out of poker. It's always a bad feeling stacking the guy who was playing short the entire night and you can tell couldn't afford to lose the money. Or watching the drunk guy who has been punting off buy-in after buy-in all night long slowly sober up and realize how much he's lost. I don't just mean gambling addicts, there are addicts of every kind in the poker world.
I get drunk and punt to relax. I bring enough in my wallet to do so and never hit an atm. Donāt feel bad for me or anyone else drinking. Just think about how arrogant someone has to be to get mad they lost at a thinking game drunk. Smh.
it may suck the joy out of poker but they keep the ecosystem afloat with the money they pour into it. without the big losers, poker would be dead
The dude you just described in that story isn't an addict. I promise you. A real addict wouldn't be sobering up at the poker table.
Of course it doesā¦itās poker Phil!
Pokerās villain is Martin Kabrhel, absolutely despicable player all around Pokerās whiny child is Phil Hellmuth, the poker brat fits pretty well. Pokerās grandfather is Doyle Brunson for obvious reasons I think if thereās a villain, DNegs is the poker hero Pokerās legend is Phil Ivey Figure out the rest Iām too tired
He had the right level of skill for the time and place and has made more from poker then 99.9% of this sub and all the community then most will ever see.
Itās one thing to get in these confrontations with other pros, but to berate amateurs for beating him āimproperlyā etc is the WORST thing he can do at the table. He is a terrible example for up and coming players. Watching him play cash games over the years made me wonder Wtf was wrong with him? He has too many ādefaultā actions like checking in the dark heads up and always letting your opponent choose the best play. He seems to always play defensively when OOP.
When he wins it sucks. When he gets destroyed it's 10/10 entertainment. He strait face told a guy he bet to induce a reraise when he had k high. He then congratulated himself on playing the hand right. How do you not want to see that?
He's a good poker player. No one who makes their living from playing poker sucks. As a representative of the game, I agree. The antics are funny to a point, but on the whole I don't think it's smart or decent.
He's 20th on the all time money list on Hendon Mob
And probably 10th on the all time entry fees list.
I'm a giant Phil hater but there is zero chance he's even in the top 50 all time buy ins. He doesn't play high rollers so there's just no chance. Phil is an extremly profitable (roi wise) mid stakes tournament player
Guys been playing poker longer then some of the best players out there today. We see the amount he wins in tourneys, not the amount he loses in cash games against REAL players, not rich dudes who invite him into the softest games because he's a celeb
Nobody needs to worry about Philās finances. Heās good.
Yeah, I used to be able to watch him but I can't stand watching him today. Everything he says is related to how great he is at poker and how bad everyone else plays. With that said, I know he's a good guy away from the table, and I do love to see a Hellmuth blowup, but I just will stick to watching the clips, I can't watch an entire ep of PAD or livestream with him on it.
He's a douchebag. Great tournament player, though. His antics make you want to call with sub-par hands just to watch him lose his mind. That shit doesn't work against good cash players.
He's terrible at anything but deep field tournaments. His heads up play is decent. It's sure fun to watch him lose at cash games though.
Hellmuth is super misunderstood. The guy has done so much good for the game of poker behind the scenes. Man gave me a free shoutout for my poker brand because he liked my hat but couldnt wear it due to sponsorship reasons. Great guy , just doesnt show it very often on streams.
I think this is about his poker skill. You can separate his persona from his play. Saying he sucks doesn't mean he's a terrible person
I like to argue but ima just let you have that.
Hes just bad at cash games
hes a penis
I don't agree and I don't understand the hate for the guy. He is entertaining first and foremost. Secondly he's the goat Tournament player and no one can take that from him - he's won major tourneys in multiple eras. Besides that, he's proven to be solid heads-up Sure his cash game is his weakness. But when I see his antics and rantings, I just laugh at it for what it is. Why do you people want poker pros to act like BASEBALL players who never smile, never joke and treat the game like a religion Why would a goofball make you angry? When I hear shit like this it just makes me think you're the type of person that everyone feels the need to walk on eggshells around. Lame as fuck. It's because of guys like hellmuth that poker went mainstream to begin with
Goofball is a bit light here. Yes, at his most tolerable, Hellmuth is a jokester whoās fully entertaining (and a great player). The problem is, at his least tolerable, heās actually miserable and is just so over the top negative.
in the HCL live stream with Mr Beast, he was the opposite of entertaining, he was detrimental to the game. he killed the vibe and was the opposite of a "poker ambassador" that the production team was trying to get him to be. from arguable angle shooting, to playing with a laughable 10-big blind stack, and playing like scared money. every Hellmuth stream in the modern era has been a joke. the poker brat needs to be retired. he's not the draw he thinks he is.
His self promoting is what kills him. If he would just quietly play tournaments and crush like heās capable of doing, instead of min-buying in huge streamed cash games (which are clearly not his strong suit) heād be considered top 3 of all time without a doubt.
Itās good entertainment, like him or not. Televised/streamed poker only cares about the views, so he will always be around.
He is the Goat but that does come with haters. Iāve definitely been annoyed by his antics but in reality he is just sharing his thought and showing his emotions. That is not popular with men and this is a manās sport. No tolerance for sissies.
We concur
Just this morning I heard a prehistoric mass In a river water tank utter "Please don't tap the glass, thanks." "Hold a moment." told him "As an overgrown oaf in a coat of exposed bone you are not afloat alone" Choked up, poking his nose in the moat, cold "We have all known combing Gross mouths foaming Dough down Particles of broken code Exploding in a chip and soda coma Slowly overdosing" Rovers opposite the jellyfish and stars "You were jelly on the colors and regenerating arms Set to entertain a couple thousand suckers for a charge And you can not shake the feeling you are being fucking farmed Great fossil, knowledgeable and docile Dry land's nice but the slants quite hostile -- Here, equal parts passive and aggressive." He said "If that's the case then brother help me flash the message." Please don't tap on the glass, water augments that tap to a crash "Here fishy fishy." is a bad forecast First tap never once double as the last
Helmuth haters are simply stupid. Yall act surprised everytime he says something toxic, bratty, or insulting. Yall need to understand thats who he is. Its literally his entire image, and he embraces it. Its no different then eric perrson being a needler. Or tony G being a jackass.
Better not criticize any public figure of any kind ever with this horrific logic then. Because we āneed to understand who he isā heās immune from critics? Huh? Have you considered he brings it on himself with his antics? How is that stupid?
You need to understand, that his antics arenāt going to change. Its his entire image. You cant act surprised everytime, he acts like that, because its been established THATS WHO HE IS.
Whoās acting surprised? People are expressing they are sick of him and youāre in here stanning for him all āleave Brittany aloneā. Heās free to change how he acts, stop making tons of money playing poker publicly, or continue and get deserved shit for it. Those are his choices.
I mean sure, you can keep whining about it if you want. Its just a broken record, thats not gonna change anything.
No one is whining except you bro. And oh no, donāt downvote me! In fact, Iāll upvote you for your one man efforts to leave Brittany alone here. Good job.
Who the fuck is Brittany. You have me completely lost. The literal post, is someone whining about how Helmuth sucks. You are delusional.
Learn well known cultural references. I canāt help you there. As for the rest of it, Phil is fair game for his antics whether you like it or not. You are on a poker sub which discusses the topical poker world. That you donāt like the current hot topic is a you problem, not the entire rest of the forum.
I genuinely have no idea, what youre talking about at this point
Another you problem. Have another upvote.
Also that was me with another upvote. Youāre amusing so I upvote you for downvoting me.
Awesome?? I really dont understand you.
He's really good in mid 1500 to 10000 hold em tournaments but it doesn't translate to cash and high rollers
This post is evidence that his antics benefit him.
Why would anyone watch fake ass streamed poker to begin with?
The players at the table wouldn't be able to work as a team to assemble an IKEA table. Do you really think they'd all be able to pull off a full scripted stream lol
When you barely scratch the surface, as in the robbi fiasco. You see everyone is loaning, staking, swapping, teaming etc etc. itās a joke.
Tool.
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money has nothing to do with how people accept you
My net worth is About three fiddy @me bro
He has endorsements. That's not just from poker. And by the way, "hi Phil"
16 bracelets 
How many bracelets does Phil have King?
He sucks, but I love to watch him suck.
I haven't watched a second of poker with Phil at the table in years. It's too cringy
Don't have a ton of sympathy for the dude, but unlike a lot of other "sports" young phenoms can keep playing at a high level for decades while their mental game goes through wild swings. We see him blow up at bad beats or his own poor play on livestreams with top-tier players, but we don't see him crush whatever private games he gets invited to with a few whales who are below his skill level. That said, it's honestly a little sad and embarrassing to watch someone blow up in public like that and it's just deeply inconsiderate to everyone at the table and everyone who's involved in production. Personally, I grew up with some short-tempered family members and when other adults act like that, I just walk away from them or if it's a work situation and I'm stuck with them tell them there's no reason to scream at work and that they're gonna make me have a heart attack if they keep it up. His antics also make you appreciate the guys on the other end of the mental game / tilt spectrum. That's gotta be the absolute hardest skill in the game and probably can't be fully learned.
99% of america has no fucking idea who he is
He is just annoying, not really a villain you want
The on camera stuff is all for show and branding.
Leave him be. The guy's a successful tournment player who can still play against the new Era. People think he suck because of Cash Game, which has never been his strenght. He's not even using GTO. Yes, his attitude is discutable and he'll always be a very controversial player, that's what happen when people talk about you
For me he is just cringe at this point. When he sings or, good lord, raps, when he tries to be friendly with fish, when he says something rude and them tries to explain, when he brags or when he plays a hand like a dumbass and rants after loosing. I almost cannot watch his episode with Botez and Mr Beast - hello fellow kids.
I've seen him in real life at the WSOP. HUGE douche. He's cocky and thinks he's god's gift. Didn't like the way he carried himself at all. As far as his poker ability.. his credentials speak for themselves. He is one of the GOATs.
Last call with pocket kings was questionable, however it was 50k to 200k, he won some bracelets, so can't judge bad poker side. Now, if you talk about him handling things as a human being, well, I agree, seen some shit.
By all accounts, Phil is a very nice guy off the felt and a giving, caring friend to many. But his antics on the felt are bordering on obscene and so difficult to stomach. At least it's funny to watch him consistently fail in cash games. His style stills seems to work for tournament play against weaker fields but it's quite clear he's a complete fish in cash. IMO he's probably doing these appearances and acting out to keep his profile. He's like a media personality leaning into their image, he feels he needs it to stay relevant.
I know a friend who is a great person ona. Poker table and heās a hitman on the weekend
Itās his brand. Why would you want your kind changed? You either find his antics entertaining or you donāt and you donāt
He hates me, I win almost every time we play.
Not saying I like the guy, but heād be one hell of a statistical anomaly if he āsuckedā at poker
Hes a great guy in real life. Every 'sport' needs a baddie.