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Main Event results

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Year Winner Winning
hand
Prize (USD) Entrants Runner-Up Losing
hand
1971 Johnny Moss 30,000 6 Walter "Puggy" Pearson
1972 "Amarillo Slim" Preston K  J  80,000 8 Walter "Puggy" Pearson 6  6 
1973 Walter "Puggy" Pearson ASpades 7Spades 130,000 13 Johnny Moss KHearts JSpades
1974 Johnny Moss 3Hearts 3Spades 160,000 16 Crandall Addington AClubs 2Clubs
1975 Brian "Sailor" Roberts JSpades JHearts 210,000 21 Bob Hooks JClubs 9Clubs
1976 Doyle Brunson 10Spades 2Spades 220,000 22 Jesse Alto ASpades JDiamonds
1977 Doyle Brunson 10Spades 2Hearts 340,000 34 Gary Berland 8Hearts 5Clubs
1978 Bobby Baldwin QDiamonds QClubs 210,000 42 Crandall Addington 9Diamonds 9Clubs
1979 Hal Fowler 7Spades 6Diamonds 270,000 54 Bobby Hoff AClubs AHearts
1980 Stu Ungar 5Spades 4Spades 385,000 73 Doyle Brunson AHearts 7Spades
1981 Stu Ungar AHearts QHearts 375,000 75 Perry Green 10Clubs 9Diamonds
1982 Jack Straus AHearts 10Spades 520,000 104 Dewey Tomko ADiamonds 4Diamonds
1983 Tom McEvoy QDiamonds QSpades 540,000 108 Rod Peate KDiamonds JDiamonds
1984 Jack Keller 10Hearts 10Spades 660,000 132 Byron Wolford 6Hearts 4Hearts
1985 Bill Smith 3Spades 3Hearts 700,000 140 T. J. Cloutier ADiamonds 3Clubs
1986 Berry Johnston ASpades 10Hearts 570,000 141 Mike Harthcock ADiamonds 8Diamonds
1987 Johnny Chan ASpades 9Clubs 625,000 152 Frank Henderson 4Diamonds 4Clubs
1988 Johnny Chan JClubs 9Clubs 700,000 167 Erik Seidel QClubs 7Hearts
1989 Phil Hellmuth, Jr. 9Spades 9Clubs 755,000 178 Johnny Chan ASpades 7Spades
1990 Mansour Matloubi 6Hearts 6Spades 895,000 194 Hans Lund 4Diamonds 4Clubs
1991 Brad Daugherty KSpades JSpades 1,000,000 215 Don Holt 7Hearts 3Hearts
1992 Hamid Dastmalchi 8Hearts 4Clubs 1,000,000 201 Tom Jacobs JDiamonds 7Spades
1993 Jim Bechtel JClubs 6Hearts 1,000,000 220 Glenn Cozen 7Spades 4Diamonds
1994 Russ Hamilton KSpades 8Hearts 1,000,000 268 Hugh Vincent 8Clubs 5Hearts
1995 Dan Harrington 9Diamonds 8Diamonds 1,000,000 273 Howard Goldfarb AHearts 7Clubs
1996 Huck Seed 9Diamonds 8Diamonds 1,000,000 295 Bruce Van Horn KClubs 8Clubs
1997 Stu Ungar AHearts 4Clubs 1,000,000 312 John Strzemp ASpades 8Clubs
1998 Scotty Nguyen JDiamonds 9Clubs 1,000,000 350 Kevin McBride QHearts 10Hearts
1999 Noel Furlong 5Clubs 5Diamonds 1,000,000 393 Alan Goehring 6Hearts 6Clubs
2000 Chris Ferguson ASpades 9Clubs 1,500,000 512 T. J. Cloutier ADiamonds QClubs
2001 Juan Carlos Mortensen KClubs QClubs 1,500,000 613 Dewey Tomko ASpades AHearts
2002 Robert Varkonyi QDiamonds 10Spades 2,000,000 631 Julian Gardner JClubs 8Clubs
2003 Chris Moneymaker 5Diamonds 4Spades 2,500,000 839 Sam Farha JHearts 10Diamonds
2004 Greg Raymer 8Spades 8Diamonds 5,000,000 2,576 David Williams AHearts 4Spades
2005 Joe Hachem 7Clubs 3Spades 7,500,000 5,619 Steve Dannenmann ADiamonds 3Clubs
2006 Jamie Gold QSpades 9Clubs 12,000,000 8,773 Paul Wasicka 10Hearts 10Spades
2007 Jerry Yang 8Diamonds 8Clubs 8,250,000 6,358 Tuan Lam ADiamonds QDiamonds
2008 Peter Eastgate ADiamonds 5Spades 9,152,416 6,844 Ivan Demidov 4Hearts 2Hearts
2009 Joe Cada 9Diamonds 9Clubs 8,546,435 6,494 Darvin Moon QDiamonds JDiamonds
2010 8,944,138 7,319

Personality and controversy

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Phil Hellmuth at the 2006 World Series of Poker.

Hellmuth is known for making disrespectful remarks about his opponents’ skills, especially after taking bad beats.[1] During the Main Event of the 2005 World Series of Poker he accused an opponent of not being able to spell "poker" after the player put all of his money in the pot preflop with King-Jack against Hellmuth's Ace-King; Hellmuth's opponent hit a three-outer (a Jack on the river) to win the pot.[2] Other famous quotes include:"Idiot from Northern Europe," "If it weren't for luck I'd win'em all," and "I can dodge bullets baby."[1]

On one occasion, Hellmuth, who is frequently very talkative during matches, so infuriated veteran poker professional Sam Grizzle that the two men had a physical altercation. Hellmuth claims that the fight was a draw and that neither one of them was injured.[3] In the first week of the show Poker After Dark on NBC, Hellmuth asked fellow pros Shawn Sheikhan, Steve Zolotow, Gus Hansen and Huck Seed to stop talking while it was his turn to act on his hand after Annie Duke raised him. They initially complied, but when Hellmuth began to talk himself, he was mocked by Seed, who said, "please be quiet so I can talk," eliciting laughter from the other players. Hellmuth then threatened never to play on the show again and walked off the set. Producers of the show came up with a ruling regarding the situation, Hellmuth returned and was eliminated a few hands later by Sheikhan.[4] Duke was the only player at the table who remained quiet while the drama played out. However, in a later interview, she said of Hellmuth's behavior, "I would call that one of the biggest overreactions I have ever seen."[5]

Hellmuth's sponsor, UltimateBet, arranged for him to arrive at the 2007 WSOP Main Event in an Ultimatebet race car, escorted by 11 Ultimatebet models (one for each of Hellmuth's 11 World Series of Poker bracelets). However, Hellmuth crashed the race car in the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino parking lot when he lost control of the vehicle and hit a concrete light fixture. After the accident, Hellmuth showed up in a limo, met his escorts, and made his grand entrance to the Main Event two hours late.[6] The accident was briefly thought to be staged by some sources, but Hellmuth said it wasn't.[7] He later made light of the accident in a television advertisement for Ultimatebet. In 2008, Hellmuth again made a grand entrance into the WSOP Main Event. As part of Ultimatebet's "UB Army" promotion, Hellmuth arrived in a convoy dressed in military garb, with eleven stars on his helmet (for the eleven WSOP bracelets he has won).

On Day 5 of the 2008 WSOP, Hellmuth folded a hand to Cristian Dragomir. Asked by the table to show his hand, Dragomir revealed that he had called Hellmuth's pre-flop re-raise with 10Diamonds 4Diamonds (a weak hand). Hellmuth proceeded to call Dragomir an "idiot," among other insults, and was eventually issued a warning by the floorperson for continued berating of another player. In addition, other players (including close friend Mike Matusow, who was seated at the same table) advised him to stop. Nonetheless, he continued to verbally abuse Dragomir until receiving a one-round penalty. The penalty was to be carried out at the beginning of play the next day.[8] However, overnight, Hellmuth had a private meeting with WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack, after which Pollack overruled the floorperson's decision.[9] (Hellmuth eventually finished this tournament in 45th place, while Dragomir finished in 29th). Hellmuth apologized to Dragomir for his behavior the next day[citation needed].

On December 20, 2008 Hellmuth was playing $200/$400 heads up limit hold em on UltimateBet, where he is a spokesman, when an apparent software glitch occurred. The $5599 pot was awarded to Hellmuth, even though he held the worst hand. (His opponent held KDiamonds QHearts for Three Kings and Hellmuth held Ten Two for two pair.) This hand became the subject of considerable controversy in the online forums due to Hellmuth's later comments about the hand. Immediately after the other player informed him of the error in awarding the pot, Hellmuth simply commented, "You wanna play or what?" and "I play U limit, right now." In addition, when later questioned about the hand, Hellmuth commented that he had experienced such errors a hundred times in his online career, "maybe 50 the wrong way to them and 50 the wrong way to me."[10] (This contradicted the official statement of Ultimatebet that no other cases of this error had been found.[11]) Finally, the previous cheating scandal at Ultimatebet led to suspicions about the plausibility of the company's explanation for the computer bug that they claim caused the error.[12][13][14]

  1. ^ a b "Phil Hellmuth Jr. Biography". Imaconlinepoker.com. 1964-07-16. Retrieved 2009-03-31.
  2. ^ "PHIL HELLMUTH Quotes, Rants, Raves and Famous Crybaby Moments!". Kickasspoker.com. Retrieved 2009-03-31.
  3. ^ "ESPN.com Chat with Phil Hellmuth". Proxy.espn.go.com. Retrieved 2009-03-31.
  4. ^ "Phil Hellmuth's Blog". Philhellmuth.com. 2007-01-04. Retrieved 2009-03-31.
  5. ^ Poker After Dark: Best Of, NBC, original airdate June 28, 2009.
  6. ^ "WSOP Updates, $10,000 Main Event, Day 1d". Pokernews.com. Retrieved 2009-03-31.
  7. ^ STING (2007-07-14). "Phil Hellmuth Car Crash Raises More Questions Than Answers". Gambling911.com. Retrieved 2009-03-31.
  8. ^ "worldseriesofpoker.com, WSOP Event 54, Day 5". Worldseriesofpoker.com. Retrieved 2009-03-31.
  9. ^ "WSOP Event 54, Day 6". Worldseriesofpoker.com. Retrieved 2009-03-31.
  10. ^ "ultimatepokershow, December 28, 2008". Retrieved 2009-03-31.
  11. ^ "Tokwiro Enterprises, "Winning Hand Correction."". Tokwiro.com. Retrieved 2009-03-31.
  12. ^ "Phil Hellmuth Scandal on ThePlayr Poker News". Theplayr.com. Retrieved 2009-03-31.
  13. ^ by PokerPages.com. "PokerPages Phil Hellmuth News". Pokerpages.com. Retrieved 2009-03-31.
  14. ^ "Poker News, "Tokwiro Releases Statement on UltimateBet Software Glitch Awarding Pot to Wrong Player."". Pokernews.com. Retrieved 2009-03-31.