In one of many high moments of the 2023 World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) up to now, poker legend Phil Hellmuth on Sunday gained his seventeenth event bracelet, inserting much more distance between himself and his closest rivals on the all-time bracelet checklist. (Phil Ivey, Johnny Chan, and the late Doyle Brunson every have 10.)
Phil Hellmuth reacts following his seventeenth World Sequence of Poker bracelet. (Picture: Kay Miller/Poker Information)
Hellmuth lower a swath via the 642-entrant area, which was the most important $10K Tremendous Turbo Bounty No Restrict Maintain ‘em occasion by 53%, however discovered himself in the midst of the pack on the closing desk. There, he chased after Chris Savage, the LA participant who commanded 40% of the chips in play after leaving Lawrence Brandt in tenth place. At one level within the roller-coaster motion, Hellmuth was down to 2 massive blinds ($60K on the 15K/30K blind degree).
Hellmuth turned issues round when his pocket aces left Ivey in sixth place with king-10 and a $133,461 payday. L.A. participant Rick Savage’s time got here subsequent, adopted by Brazilian participant Kelvin Kerber and German participant Tom Kunze.
This left Justin Zaki to battle it out with helmet for the $803,818 first prize and bracelet. Hellmuth felled his Floridian opponent after only one hand of head-up play, through which Hellmuth flopped two pair and referred to as Zaki’s all-in guess, constructing a full home on the flip. Zaki walked away with $496,801.
Hellmuth has gained a WSOP bracelet in 5 completely different many years since successful his first Most important Occasion in 1989. His final was in 2021.
“That is the primary 12 months of my profession that every one the nice gamers referred to as me nice or the best,” he advised Poker Information. “Shaun Deeb is among the biggest gamers on this planet. He lastly understands and was giving me compliments like, ‘You’re the perfect participant within the event.’”
