Just a few days ago, hustler casino's cash game live broadcast ushered in its new issue. Unlike the previous lineup of top professionals, high-end table regulars or super local tycoons, this episode of the show is an amateur rookie of Qing Yishui, and only Poison King and Phil Hellmuth are the only two professional players. But can you imagine? They are actually the two least famous at this table, and their role is only a foil. Those amateur players are the real protagonists, they are all top Influencers.
I don't know if you know Mr beast, that is, the top YouTube Internet celebrity who holds various strange challenges, the whole box of money, the domestic people call it Brother Money, and the number of Tubing subscriptions is 94 million. In an interview before the game, he said he had brought more than a million knives and would be distributed at the table.
There's also game streamer XQC, who gets 261 million hours of viewing on Twitch in 2021. Twitch's other streamers are not at all on the order of magnitude compared to them.
Other players include game streamer Ninja, Ludwig Ahgren, Slime, chess queen Alexandra Botez, and cryptocurrency investment mogul Alan keating. Although they are not as good as Sa qian ge and XQC, they are also all front-line Internet celebrities. Behind the names of all these people, there is a huge amount of traffic.
This would have been a great opportunity to showcase and promote the game of Texas Hold'em to an audience outside of Poker. But don't be afraid of god-like opponents, just fear pig-like teammates! Phil Hellmuth once again got nervous about the game, not only did not play a positive role in promoting the game, but once again deepened the stereotype of the general audience.
First, in a one-handed three-player all-push game, Phil Hellmuth, who took the lead with the A8 all-in, received an All-in call from Alexandra Botez's sister A9 and Q5, a money-hungry brother who wanted to send money.
Before the showdown, Phil Hellmuth, who saw two followers, was still smiling, until he saw the little sister's A9, and then the public card 38922 was issued, and the smile completely disappeared. When everyone is talking and laughing, the picture turns to Phil Hellmuth, who throws away his hand with a look of displeasure, and then a series of words with F burst out of his mouth, and finally a sentence, at least I know that she will definitely lose in the end. Alexander Botez, who was still dancing happily, was also embarrassed by this remark.
Not to mention that it is extremely bad to treat a lady with such harsh language at any time.
When a group of people who have never played poker, or even touched Texas Hold'em, try to join the game, you Phil Hellmuth as a poker maker is humiliating them! The reason is just that they did something that you thought was wrong?
And that's not even the most exaggerated, Phil Hellmuth staged an even more outrageous scene in a later hand.
In the flop circle of 28A, Twitter anchor Slime used A6All-in, Throwing Brother to fold, and the action came to Phil Hellmuth. He was talking to Poison King and saying I don't know what to do now, and then quickly pushed the hole card forward to the betting line.
It was a clear fold, even the director and commentators thought so, and Slime, of course, showed his hole cards and prepared to take the pot. But at this point Phil Hellmuth actually came up with a sentence about what are you doing?
Slime was surprised and said, "Aren't you folding cards?" ”
Phil Hellmuth: "No, I didn't fold, I just showed the cards to the Poison King, call." Maybe my actions caused you a misunderstanding, so I admit to 5K. It's a pretty good deal, it's really a bargain for you, you might win, and you'll be able to get 5K more. ”
As a result, of course, Slime lost, and Phil Hellmuth took the 48K pot, which should be 43K to be precise.
Phil Hellmuth's wave of manipulations shocked not only commentators and other players, but also everyone watching the livestream!
After the show, Phil Hellmuth was quickly criticized by the players.
Dan Niu tweeted: This matter will become a topic, so I am sure "it is really good for you"
Doug Polk featured a podcast in which Thomas "Srsly Sirius" Keeling called Phil Hellmuth a "scumbag."
Phil Hellmuth himself was right about it at first, saying in a post-match interview: "At the time, Dwwan said let me see what your cards are,...... Then I threw my cards to him... It was fairly standard and normal, and I didn't do anything wrong. ”
But as more and more people criticized him, Phil Hellmuth finally admitted his mistake on Twitter.
Phil Hellmuth: I'll admit that dividing the pot evenly is the most appropriate thing to do, not $5,000. It happened so fast that I just asked what to do to be fair and then went. I think I'll give @slime_machine $5,000 plus half of the pot, which I should have done on the live stream.