Poker legend’s obscene WSOP rant eliminates another player
Poker legend Phil Hellmuth drew the ire of other players at the World Series of Poker on Day 2C of the tournament after an obscene mid-hand outburst.
The incident occurred when Hellmuth held a pair of 7s and watched Alex Kuzmin bet with King-2 after the flop. James Campbell then went all-in with ace-9, and Hellmuth expressed his outrage at the move before Kuzmin called. Kuzmin and Campbell were both on diamond flush draws, making Campbell a heavy favorite after the flop.
“He got away with murder all day against me,” Hellmuth said. “How the (expletive) does this happen?”
Campbell ending up losing the hand when a 2 came out of the turn, ending his tournament. The event announcers immediately called for Hellmuth to be penalized.
The criticism didn’t stop there.
Fellow players Isaac Haxton and Justin Bonomo called for action to be taken, with the latter asking for Hellmuth to be retroactively penalized.
Campbell also chimed in on Twitter.
“I had some fun even though I got tortured all day in the WSOP main event … @phil_hellmuth save your rant until after other players fold. That player would have not called without your antics @WSOP.”
To his credit, Hellmuth eventually seemed to recognize the nature of his mistake and bought Campbell entry into the 2019 tournament.
Still, he denied his outburst was an “intentional act of sabotage,” as others had accused.
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