Phil Hellmuth not only holds the record for the most WSOP gold bracelets with 17, he is also known for not being able to control his emotions at certain moments. And that's exactly what he proved once again during the latest episode of No Gamble, No Future, where he delivered an explosion that will go down in history.
The $200/$400 blinds NLH format was played and featured names like Ryan Feldman, Nik Airball, Alan Keating, Jean-Robert Bellande, Matt Hanks, Humboldt Mike, and of course Phil Hellmuth.
Phil can't handle losing
At the start of the show Phil was doing well and winning pots, but then things turned around and he started losing pot after pot. Things kicked off with a hand where Phil lost with A-K against Ryan Feldman with Q-Q. The pot here was $109,400, and it didn't help Phil's cause that he was playing two boards.
Hellmuth had to buy in for $30,000 after this hand and his first words of discontent came, F*****g morons running like this against me, it’s unbelievable. F**k you, Ryan. It’s not even fun playing against you, Ryan. The weird s**t you get away playing with. He’s such a f*****g idiot, I can’t believe he’s the big winner."
But then came the hand after which Phil had already totally exploded. Humboldt Mike found himself under a hand of jacks and Phil A-Q, sending his entire stack into the hand and making the pot worth $51,800. An ace appeared on the board, putting Phil within striking distance of a win, but the river jack buried his chances.
Humboldt Mike immediately started dancing saying, "Yes! Start the car baby. Start the car baby, lets go!" Hellmuth couldn't take it anymore and we saw another one of his outbursts. “Buddy, I told you, alright, you want me to quit? Alright I’m going to f*****g quit. I can’t play with you anymore. You’re such an a*****e, man. I don’t mind losing the flip, I really don’t. But come on, I asked you not to do that s**t. You have been more out of line to me than any other person. No, you’ve been more out of line to me than any other person has been to me in a year and a half. F**k you, man. I don’t know who you f*****g are, but I’m never going to film with you again.”
To make matters worse, in addition to the encore, Phil stood up from the table, unclipped his microphone, threw it on the table, angrily walked away from the game and refused to even rebuy. He then shared a video of the whole situation on his twitter (x), to which he wrote: "Here I am embarrassing myself, again, sigh…"
Here I am embarrassing myself, again, sigh ... https://t.co/YGjOndsWbs
- phil_hellmuth (@phil_hellmuth) August 1, 2024
Source - pokerGO, pokernews, twitter, ryan feldman