🤑 Hellmuth Comes Up Short WPT Legends, Papazyan Wins on First Attempt

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The plan worked like a charm as Alexander, in the big blind, moved all-in for 2. For Papazyan, it was his first tournament win of any significance. That left Papazyan, a cash game player, taking on one of the best tournament pros in history, heads-up with nearly even stacks. Away from the table, he's a proud Midwesterner, and possibly the world's biggest Kansas City Royals and Iowa Hawkeyes fan. By Jon Sofen. September 1, Players. Name required. Hellmuth, however, regrouped and slowly rebuilt his stack to respectability, playing his unconventional, anti-game theory optimal strategy. JC Tran, a two-time WPT champion and chip leader heading into the final table, had started playing aggressively as the big stack, but never really connected to make big hands. Fast-forward almost exactly 29 years later to the same casino and a now year-old Hellmuth was attempting to win another major tournament to put some icing on the cake of his remarkable career. View All Ena53 wrote September 6, pm Congratulations it was an amazing victory!! I mean, how do you do it?

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This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Since then, he's become a prolific writer about the game, offering daily news coverage for the CardsChat community. Leave a Comment Cancel reply Your message. Email required. By Johnny Kampis. June 4, Casino. The opportunity to get the monkey off his back presented itself on Thursday. He wears his emotions on his chest, and it was obvious how important winning this tournament was to him. June 6, Poker News. The tournament remained four-handed for three hours or so as no player could bust. The bad beat dropped Hellmuth to the smallest stack, with barely 10 big blinds, and as you might have guessed, it made someone extra poker bratty. June 5, Online Poker. Hellmuth had an opportunity to send DJ Alexander home in 4 th place at one point, but that darn river always seems to screw over the Poker Brat, at least so he claims. As the six-handed TV final table was starting, he was third in chips. No surprise, Hellmuth responded to the bad beat with a bit of a hissy fit. With both players having nearly identical chip stacks, Papazyan slowly chipped away at Hellmuth before winning a Like a dagger in the kidney, Hellmuth saw the bad news in the window. Discuss all the latest poker news in the CardsChat forum.