Friday, March 6, 2015 1:44 PM Local Time
Hellmuth Loses a Chunk
On a flop of , a player in middle position leads out for 1,000 and Phil Hellmuth raises to 2,000. The middle position player calls and the turn is the . Both players check and the river is the .
Middle position checks and Hellmuth bets 2,200. His opponent check-raises to 7,000 and Hellmuth snap-calls.
Hellmuth's opposition tables , good for a straight and Hellmuth flashes his hand to one side of the table and mucks his hand. His opponent asks to see the hand, but the dealer informs the player that he would have to call a floor to table the hand since it hit the muck.
"I had a set obviously," said Hellmuth.
The answer was enough for his opponent, who let the issue go.
"I'm going to last long in this tournament," said Hellmuth. "It's a good time to get unlucky though. It's early. I just want to get it in as a favorite. You guys can just get there and I'll build up the Sklansky bucks."
Phil Hellmuth - 5,400