Arguably the hottest discussion at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) presently is Phil Hellmuth‘s deep run in the $1,500 No Limit Hold ’em event (#6), where Hellmuth was fifth in chips going into the final day of play with 25 players left. Hellmuth was updating progress on Twitter throughout Day 2, including this Tweet he sent after going on a rush at the featured table: “I have over $400,000 in chips now. Cracked 200k about an hour ago, then heated up: had A-A, nut flush, and won the chips fast. 40 or 50 left.”
Following a long 13-hour Day 2, during which Hellmuth increased his stack from 84,000 to 556,000, he Tweeted the following: “Will tomorrow be the day I win bracelet number 12?” The remaining 25 players are playing down to a champion on Friday.
Hellmuth last won a bracelet in 2007, which also came in a $1,500 No Limit Hold ’em event. He’ll have plenty of support during his hunt for bracelet #12 on Friday, especially from fellow Team UB members Scott Ian and Annie Duke. “Sending all my positive energy to @phil_hellmuth”, tweeted Ian early Friday morning. “Good luck tomorrow!!”
Duke, who arrived in Las Vegas on Thursday, got word of Hellmuth’s success and offered her best wishes as well: “@phil_hellmuth good luck today Phil. I’m rooting hard for you!” Duke missed the first week of WSOP events, but arrived in time to play the $10,000 Seven Card Stud World Championship (Event #10) on Thursday evening. “My first event at the 2010 WSOP and I get a sweeeeet draw! That’s @Erik_Seidel to my right,” Duke tweeted. Unfortunately, her stay in the prestigious event didn’t last long: “My debut at the WSOP was very brief. I was out in 2 hours flat in the $10K stud. I am proud of the efficient use of my time.”
European Poker Tour (EPT) San Remo champion Liv Boeree also arrived late to the WSOP and has seen some good poker go to waste. Tweeted Boeree after exiting the $1,500 Pot Limit Hold ’em event, “bubbled the PLH on the last 6 hands of the day, bloody marvelous.” Friend and fellow Team UB member Joe Sebok quickly came to her aid: “@liv_boeree nooooo, that’s sick. sorry livvy. thought you were for sure gonna cash… always another tho.”
Team UB pro Brandon Cantu, who won his second WSOP bracelet last year and signed a one-year extension with the online poker site on Friday, hasn’t been faring too well this summer either. Along with a few early bustouts in tournaments at the Rio, Cantu is apparently running well below expectation at home and shared one particularly entertaining bad beat with the Twitter community: “Unreal just got in a bb gun fight with my gf in the house and missed her and shattered my computer screen… What luck!!”
The Tweet of the day goes to the ever-popular Sebok, who may or may not have been pounding Jaeger bombs and eating protein bars when typing up this doozy: “Haircut and a beard trim. Check. I look like a right sexy me bastard. That’s how we do it. Johnnie hooked it up today.”
