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Was it Just an Accident? Phil Hellmuth's Chips Swiped on Break at WSOP

Written by:
Nagesh Rath
Published on:
Jun/19/2022

PokerNews Jon Sofen attempted to clear the air on what exactly happened with Phil "The Poker Brat" Hellmuth's disappearing chips during a poker break at this year's World Series of Poker.

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A surveillance camera was used to determine that Hellmuth did have a stack of chips in play prior to leaving the table at the Event #38: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Single Draw Championship.

"We went on break and I'm kind of smart, I knew it was going to take them a while, so I went to the bathroom, but I left my chips in a rack and then Scott Seiver said leave Phil's chips in a rack. And then one of the other players took them and put them in his stack," Hellmuth said in an interview with Poker News.

Hellmuth understood this to be "a complete accident".

The other player in question was Farzad Bonyadi, for whom Hellmuth referred to as a "class guy".

The WSOP staff would later confirm that Hellmuth had 135,000 chips removed and placed upon Bonyadi's stack.  It was not immediately known as to why the chips were merged.

Hellmuth holds the record for most WSOP bracelets won (16).

Negreanu Talks Attempted Blackmail

Daniel Negreanu, poker's biggest money earner, revealed last week that an individual had left threatening messages accusing him of leaving his family to go live the high life in Las Vegas.

That message went into more specifics.

“I’m going to go public with what you did to your family in Lake Havasu. That was fucked – I know your little secret; the whole world is going to know!”

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Phil Hellmuth later received a text that apparently read: “Phil, give me a call if you want to expose Daniel Negreanu. We can talk money. I have proof.”

Negreanu says he is not even familiar with Lake Havasu or where it was even located.  It's in Arizona.

He did recall previous accusations pertaining to the mysterious Lake Havasu.

Negreanu played the clip as part of his popular Vegas WSOP vlog.

"I really am calling you... I want to let you know what happened after you left Lake Havasu, alright, you have a right to know...,” the crazy clip begins.

O clipe continua.

“Eu apenas pensei que você gostaria de saber o que aconteceu com sua outra família que foi abandonada.Eu tenho todos os tipos de pessoas tentando me acertar para tornar isso público, mas estou dando a você a chance de acertar, cara, só você sabe o que quero dizer.

Apesar de desejar bem a Daniel em seus sucessos, o interlocutor acrescenta: “É meio que fodido, você acabou de deixar sua família ... eu estou meio que sofrendo com isso porque tive que vê -los chorar do lado de fora da minha janela do meu quarto para você. "

Então a tentativa de extorsão: “Mas acredito que você não quer que eu torne o público, então talvez você deva me ligar de volta neste telefone porque estou recebendo todo tipo de ... comentários ... inferno,Hellmuth realmente me quer, então eles realmente querem usá -lo contra você.

“Eles realmente querem me pagar, mas estou lhe dando uma chance para eu não ir público, e você me paga, seja o que for, vou ficar quieto sobre isso, assinarei um contrato, mas me avise.Ok, Dan. ”

NEGREANU pensou em envolver o FBI.

Como se isso não bastasse, "Kid Poker" também foi abordado e acusado de "bebês inocentes de Vaxxing" por um teórico da conspiração.

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Millionaire Maker se dirige para o dia 3

O muito popular WSOP Millionaire Maker com sua história colorida Transforma um terceiro dia com Steve Yea, da Coréia do Sul, liderando a pilha de chips após a conclusão do dia 1B.

Sim, tem US $ 1.669.553 em ganhos vitalícios no circuito de torneios ao vivo.

4.429 participaram da peça de sábado.Isso diminuiu para 963.

Kathy Liebert, Robert Mizrachi e o campeão inaugural de Wynn Millions, Andrew Moreno, estavam entre os notáveis participantes do evento milionário deste ano.

Em outros lugares, Justin Pechie venceu o evento nº 34: US $ 1.500 congelamento sem limite hold'em por US $ 364.899 e recebeu sua segunda pulseira do WSOP enquanto o vencedor da pulseira pela primeira vez Ali Eslami derrubou o evento nº 36: $ 1.500 sete cartas hi-lo 8 ou melhorpor US $ 135.260.

- Nagesh Rath, Gambling911.com

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