High Stakes Poker thread (9/10)

[raytownloc]

Yeah, Helmuth congratulating someone for owning him on national TV, not going to happen. Really I think he betrayed his hand with all that stupid table talk. He played Baxter for a chump and thought he could outwit him, but he was wrong. He wouldn't have tried that speech with Negreanu or Doyle, he saw a new face and thought he was a mark. Suprise, in this game Phil, your the mark.

Phil has a massive ego, and basically looked terrible last season, right after they do a montage where Daniel and Antonio were saying that he's soft in cash games, so he basically proved them right. He's back to prove himself, this isn't about money, its about pride and the 27 prop makes it even more of a macho attitude in there, so Phil's ego takes over. Someone should just explain to him, look, you don't have the temperament for this game, nor the experience playing big cash games against the best in the world, he wants so badly to be respected by his peers, but guess what, they are just nice to him because he's a mark in their eyes, he's losing hundreds of thousands to Phil Ivey in Chinese Poker and giddy like a school girl just to be included in their little exclusive group. They'll never respect him, hes an insecure one trick pony, he should go back to winning hold em tournaments, its what hes good at, and quit trying to be what he's not.

Then again, he's getting more exposure and 2K an hour to play in this game so the money he's losing probably evens out or close to it... but if he keeps getting schooled in this game he just may damage his rep.

Where's Daniel? I thought he's played about 90% of HSP until this season did he decide not to play anymore? Even though he's probably down overall he's played some great poker and earned my respect, I don't think I've ever seen someone get more unlucky.