Re: [ba-poker] Phil Hellmuth in The Wave magazine

["David S. Heller" <david(deleted the rest)>]

I thought Phil Hellmuth had the record for money at the WSOP, which may have
been what they meant.  But with the escalating payouts on all the
tournaments, that title may change hands frequently from here on, anyway.

Phil Ivey is the Tiger Woods of poker if you think what's special about
Tiger is his race.  But I took the article to mean what's special about
Tiger Woods is that he's the best there's ever been at golf, and the author
was saying that about Phil Hellmuth and poker.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Wiesenberg" <queueing(deleted the rest)>
To: "Ed Fernandez" <edf(deleted the rest)>
Cc: <ba-poker(deleted the rest)>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: [ba-poker] Phil Hellmuth in The Wave magazine


> My "really?" was directed at the whole paragraph.  I thought Phil Ivey was
> the "Tiger Woods of No Limit Texas Hold'em Poker."  I'm not aware that
> Hellmuth has won the most money of any poker player.  (Lederer and Forrest
> and others who regularly play for hundreds of thousands of dollars may
well
> have won more.  And I thought Cloutier was the all-time tournament money
> winner.  His name keeps popping up in searches on that
> subject:  http://tinyurl.com/2nfzg .)  I don't disagree that Hellmuth is
> one of the best, but I don't think "the best there's ever been" is a
> universal consensus. (Even measured by WSOP bracelets.  He's one of three
> who each have nine.)