Sunday, June 7, 2015 10:46 PM Local Time
Angry, Angry Hellmuth
Phil Hellmuth is on the steam pipe.
If you listen to him tell it, Razz is his best game, and he's easily the best player in the room right now. The cards, however, are not cooperating with his rendition.
A moment ago, Adam Owen doubled through Hellmuth in a big pot where Hellmuth's had a four-card , and Owen was working with . At showdown, Hellmuth opened up for a marginal jack-low, and Owen revealed to stay alive. He won the pot, but he had to deal with a barrage of insults from across the table as he stacked the pot.
It wasn't the first lamentable hand for Hellmuth during the past few minutes. When he was done with Owen, he turned his attention to Erik Seidel, who appears to have earned his own double through Hellmuth at some point. After a few choice words about Seidel's play, Hellmuth offered a compliment shrouded in an insult: "I respect you Erik. You're a great poker player. But if you call a raise with a ten and an eight, you don't know how to play this game."
The next hand is dealt out, and Joseph Ranciato is the bring-in, showing a . Mike Gorodinsky completes, and the table folds around to Hellmuth, who is last to act before Ranciato. Hellmuth mucks his face-up. With action pending, that move isn't exactly appreciated by the rest of the table.
"I know you're on tilt," Gorodinsky says calmly, "but that's really not cool."
"Floor!" calls the dealer.
Hellmuth is issued a warning for exposing cards with action pending, though he argues that he assumed Ranciato was folding his queen.
"Not everyone plays razz as well as you, Phil," Gorodinsky finishes the conversation.
There's a dark cloud hanging over the one seat right now, and the amusement is starting to run just a bit thin at Table 362. Seems like a good time for a dinner break.