How does Phil Hellmuth win tournaments?

[UATrewqaz]

His biggest strength as a player is getting basically getting bad players to put in alot of chips when they are in really bad shape in a hand.

In big tournaments that's quite a useful skill to have considering what % of the field are terrible players.

[JJBuffone]

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lol donkaments

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This is pretty much the correct answer.

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When is it not?

[plzleenowhammy]

His excellent insurance bets.

[john voight]

hes pretty good @ the games he plays.

[wcsherry]

Eleven. [censored]. Bracelets. Ship it.

[btmagnetw]

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His excellent insurance bets.

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[Gonso]

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Eleven. [censored]. Bracelets. Ship it.

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He plays in virtually every WSOP event there is, year after year, doesn't he? Not to knock the guy buy I'm sure there are a number of players that could produce similar or better results if they entered as many as he did.

[KSOT]

People underestimate the power of infinite patience and extreme aversion to risk.

[JulioYalil]

he accumulates chips from other players participatin in the tourney by beating them in hands. he either does this by makin them fold or having the best ranked hand after all community cards have been dealt. he keeps doing this until all players have been eliminated from the tourney and he has accumulated all the chips.

[insyder19]

High stakes poker cannot be taken that seriously because the stakes they play are not the one they usually play in Vegas. And Hellmuth is a tournament player. And yes I gotta say you don't have as many good players sitting at the same table at the WSOP.