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

[Chuck Hamilton <hamilton_charles(deleted the rest)>]

Consider the source.  The whole article read like
a self-written promo piece.  Given that, is it not
surprising that according to Phil, Phil is the best
in the world?

--Chuck

--- Michael Wiesenberg <queueing(deleted the rest)> wrote:
> 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.)



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