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Wasn't Phil raising UTG with horrible hands, like J2? Obviously with how ESPN has to select hands to show, we don't know how often this occurred, but I would think raising UTG is always a risky bet.

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UTG raises are more respected, especially from a nit like Hellmuth. So, tight players can occasionally make a play from UTG based on that piece of information that his opponents know.

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Phil's style is to min raise junk from every seat, then tiny bet the flop, which combined with his image and talk works really well early in tourneys against bad opponents. The bizarre thing is that he was still doing it with an M of like 3-4 which is just so bad it makes you wonder how he's won so many tourneys.