Hellmuth Announces he is Not Playing 2025 WSOP Main Event
Poker superstar says he’ll skip WSOP Main Event: ‘It’s just exhausting’.
In today's Las Vegas Review Journal and posted on Twitter.
He mentions it's an endurance challenge and puts older players at huge disadvantage.
Any chance WSOP adjusts schedule moving forward to 8 hours of play? or 10 hours of play?
Getting old indeed sucks. Not much else to it
I think they could add a rest day after day 5 or 6.
I don't agree with the calls to shorten the structure. The structure is part of what makes the main special.
All that being said my money's on Phil playing. He'll make his big surprise entrance and all the cameras will be clamoring for an interview. You have to admit he knows how to market himself. All the tirades he used to make on camera had to have made him millions in sponsorships.
I think they could add a rest day after day 5 or 6.
I don't agree with the calls to shorten the structure. The structure is part of what makes the main special.
All that being said my money's on Phil playing. He'll make his big surprise entrance and all the cameras will be clamoring for an interview. You have to admit he knows how to market himself. All the tirades he used to make on camera had to have made him millions in sponsorships.
He's incredible at marketing himself. And Phil is all Phil cares about. So when he cries about long grueling days but hasn't actually played consecutive days in the main in a decade,it's purely to get attention for Phil.
two player over 40 had won it since then, while four 39 year olds and one 38 year old won it. No one under the age of 30 has won it in the last 7.
I should point out again, only two have ever won it over age 60. If you are 50 and over you are really behind the eight ball, as you should be in a major competition.
Looks Farha should have been champ 2003. Coming in second that exhausted. Or Dan. Or somebody else not sleeping properly.
Always something else to blame but luck.
Looks Farha should have been champ 2003. Coming in second that exhausted. Or Dan. Or somebody else not sleeping properly.
Always something else to blame but luck.
Only guy with any legit complaint is Ivey who got coolered out in 10th, but no two players in history play it any differently. That should’ve been the headsup finale. CMM rolled over everyone else from Day One.
Final two hands were humiliating for Sam, and replayed endlessly, plus he turned down (insultingly) a 59/50 chop down 2-1. Same as Dutch whining about his AK bluff on the flop getting snapped by MM’s 33. I think Chan whined too after MM busted him resoundingly. Buncha scrotes imo.
Only guy with any legit complaint is Ivey who got coolered out in 10th, but no two players in history play it any differently. That should’ve been the headsup finale. CMM rolled over everyone else from Day One.
Final two hands were humiliating for Sam, and replayed endlessly, plus he turned down (insultingly) a 59/50 chop down 2-1. Same as Dutch whining about his AK bluff on the flop getting snapped by MM’s 33. I think Chan whined too after MM busted him resoundingly. Buncha scrotes imo.
Wasn’t Chan coaching MM at final table?
No, that was Jamie Gold. Chan about had a heart attack day or two earlier when he saw Gold fixing to play a big pot against Allen Cunningham. Pity AC didn’t double through him.
As for Ivey, poor guy’s still having PTSD attacks from Moneymaker and then he gets knocked out by Darvin Moon!
