SharePhil Hellmuth has agreed to make things right after being accused of angleshooting on the Hustler Casino Live show this week, a long list of the Poker Bratâs bad behaviour making its way from poker Reddit to poker Twitter...
Oh boy, a list if everything I did wrong last night. Super glad that they didnât include the last month or two! https://t.co/ufnrbHiAKb
â phil_hellmuth (@phil_hellmuth) May 3, 2022
Hellmuth faced the angleshooting accusations after appearing to muck his hand during a star-studded and livestreamed $100/$200 cash game, the majority of his opponents complete or relative newbies to poker.
In a hand with Twitch Poker streamer, Slime, an amateur, Phil found himself facing an all-in on the flop. What happened next shocked not only the commentators and fellow players, but the poker community watching at home...including Daniel Negreanu.
Here is the full clip of the hand.
â Daniel Negreanu (@RealKidPoker) May 2, 2022
This one is gonna get talked about.
Not so sure I would call it âa really good deal for youâ https://t.co/BW6dsTtZ4B
Incredibly, not only did Phil appear to fold, but Slime wasnât even given the chance to see the hand play out â which when they did a rabbit hunt would have given him a full house and the $80k pot.
Some were hugely critical of Hellmuthâs behaviour, with Doug Polkâs video editor, Thomas âSrslySiriusâ Keeling calling Hellmuth âa scumbagâ.
Polk himself was quick to do a special YouTube video on Hellmuthâs behaviour during the livestreamed cash game from the Hustler casino.
The video description runs: âPhil Hellmuth reached a new low to his embarrassing antics on this historic Hustler Casino Live stream featuring Ninja, Mr Beast, Ludwig, xQc, Tom Dwan, Alexandra Botez, and Slime. But did he stoop so low as to angleshoot an unsuspecting amateur poker player?â
Meanwhile, Hellmuth was refuting the angleshooting accusations, claiming that the camera didnât show him sliding the cards towards Tom Dwan for his old friend and foe to have a look.
Hellmuth explained to Joey Ingram in a mid-game interview: âBasically, Dwan said âLet me see what youâre looking at,â ... I threw him my cards... it was pretty standard and normal...I didnât do anything wrong at all.â
Poker Twitter wasnât kind to Phil in the aftermath, some of the comments below among those suitable for family reading:
- Jacqueline Burkhardt: âOmg @phil_hellmuth too? On a live stream? WTF? TBH, this kind of shit makes me not want to play poker anymore. And it's my main hobby. Poker needs a hero. FAST.â
- Jimmischillis: âLetâs just ponder for a minute if another player had committed that atrocity against Phil, flip the scene where Phil gets angled and misses $30k. My guess nuclear levels of explosion.â
- Scott Seiver: â#positivity as an ambassador of the sport to fleece 5k from a brand new player. @phil_hellmuth do the right thing when you see this and give him back his $ this is absurd.â
By the time poker Twitter had ravaged Hellmuth over this hand and other bad behaviour, the Poker Brat came to his senses somewhat and accepted he may have been out of line.
I agree w this take @BartHanson. I think chopping the pot would have been the classiest move, and not accepting $5,000. It happened so fast, I just asked what was fair and went w it. I guess Iâll give @slime_machine $5,000 plus 1/2 of the potâŠI Should have done this on stream! https://t.co/5fQW5SOAun
â phil_hellmuth (@phil_hellmuth) May 3, 2022
Meanwhile, the player wronged in the incident, Slime, came late to the Twitter spat to reveal he didnât feel heâd been angleshot, but wouldnât mind the offer of a deal...with Hellmuth snap-calling his way out of a tight social media spot...
Itâs a deal @slime_machine! @BartHanson is right, @scott_seiver is partially right (however, Scott is always mean to me even though he loves me), and my bestie @Chamath weighed in and told me I missed a good opportunity to give you a rebate. $9,000 coming your way! #POSITIVITY https://t.co/L8J5fJcWSn
â phil_hellmuth (@phil_hellmuth) May 3, 2022
Controversy aside, and thereâs usually plenty of it with Hellmuth in the game, the nightâs bug winner was chess streamer and now poker acolyte, Alexandra Botez.
MOST INSANE POT IâVE EVER WON, still feeling the excitement today lol pic.twitter.com/aYoeGHqi1M
â Alexandra Botez (@alexandravbotez) May 2, 2022
If big Phil hasnât scared the youngsters off with his antics, there may yet be a huge boost to the game on its way by including the TwitchTV and YouTube amateurs in the televised games.
