﻿{"id":18108,"date":"2026-06-12T14:49:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T06:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hunter.poker\/?p=18108"},"modified":"2026-06-12T14:50:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T06:50:25","slug":"phil-hellmuth-rant-wsop-elimination-bad-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunter.poker\/en\/phil-hellmuth-rant-wsop-elimination-bad-beat\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Hellmuth raged after being eliminated from the WSOP: &quot;I&#039;ve fucking had enough.&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"18108\" class=\"elementor elementor-18108\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c77cee7 e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"c77cee7\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b2b5bb9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b2b5bb9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18048\" src=\"https:\/\/pub-dc2de6f8f0454e48ae0895383ea4705c.r2.dev\/hunter.poker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1-11-300x199.webp\" alt=\"Phil Hellmuth raged after being eliminated from the WSOP: &quot;I&#039;ve fucking had enough.&quot;\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pub-dc2de6f8f0454e48ae0895383ea4705c.r2.dev\/hunter.poker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1-11-300x199.webp 300w, https:\/\/pub-dc2de6f8f0454e48ae0895383ea4705c.r2.dev\/hunter.poker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1-11-18x12.webp 18w, https:\/\/pub-dc2de6f8f0454e48ae0895383ea4705c.r2.dev\/hunter.poker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1-11.webp 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em> Phil Hellmuth, a 17-time WSOP bracelet winner, released a video venting his frustration after suffering a bad beat elimination in a WSOP event. He stated that he was fed up with his repeated losses in crucial hands in recent years and vowed to win 24 bracelets.<\/em><\/span><\/p><p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #000000;\">Phil Hellmuth tries to maintain a positive image on social media. But a bad beat elimination during Wednesday&#039;s World Series of Poker (WSOP) event prompted the &quot;poker brat&quot; to unleash his fury.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #000000;\">The 17-time WSOP bracelet winner released a three-minute video after being eliminated on Day 2 of the #33:$10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High-Low 8 or Better tournament. In the video, he expressed his frustration after two weeks of the long WSOP.<\/span><\/p><h3 class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong><span class=\"\">Poker brat starts spitting<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18052\" src=\"https:\/\/pub-dc2de6f8f0454e48ae0895383ea4705c.r2.dev\/hunter.poker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2-10-300x200.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pub-dc2de6f8f0454e48ae0895383ea4705c.r2.dev\/hunter.poker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2-10-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/pub-dc2de6f8f0454e48ae0895383ea4705c.r2.dev\/hunter.poker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2-10-18x12.webp 18w, https:\/\/pub-dc2de6f8f0454e48ae0895383ea4705c.r2.dev\/hunter.poker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2-10.webp 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p><p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #000000;\">&quot;Guys, over the past few years, I haven&#039;t really shared many negative posts on social media. I know I always say, &#039;Hey Phil, you&#039;re rich. You have fame, wealth, health, you have everything,&#039;&quot; Hellmuth says at the beginning of the video, before launching into his rant.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #000000;\">Hellmuth ultimately finished in 37th place, earning $21,162. He was in excellent form late in Day 2, &quot;playing great poker.&quot; But as he explained, his game ended when the only player with more chips than him at the table called a huge bet on the turn with a hand that had only three outs, and one of those outs appeared on the river.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cHe was basically done for,\u201d Hellmuth said. \u201cHe called with 520,000 chips, and I thought I was about to take the chip lead.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #000000;\">Hellmuth&#039;s frustration after being eliminated began to surface: &quot;I&#039;ve just had enough of losing in these hands for the past three, four, or whatever years.&quot; The BetRivers Casino ambassador went on to say that he doesn&#039;t like sharing negative emotions on social media, &quot;because I&#039;ve been incredibly lucky in life.&quot;<\/span><\/p><p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #000000;\">&quot;But, you know, then people will think, &#039;How did Phil play?&#039; You know, they don&#039;t understand that in these big pots, I always have the best hands,&quot; he continued.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #000000;\">Hellmuth, who has always been passionate about winning a gold bracelet and proving that he can still be a top competitor, claims that he has always struggled to go all the way in tournaments because players make bad calls and win by luck.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #000000;\">&quot;I&#039;m fucking fed up,&quot; Hellmuth raged. &quot;Yeah, I&#039;m healthy. Yeah, I&#039;m lucky. But come on. I mean, if this crap keeps happening, I&#039;m not going to win any games.&quot;<\/span><\/p><p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #000000;\">Hellmuth later expressed his frustration at being eliminated from the final table last week in the #9:$10,000 Omaha High Low 8 or better tournament. He finished seventh with $54,214, but was unlucky at the final table and failed to win his record-breaking 18th gold bracelet.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #000000;\">&quot;I just want you guys to know that I&#039;m still a great player, and I&#039;ll still keep betting money when I get the best hands, day after day, week after week, month after month, until I fucking have 24 gold bracelets,&quot; an angry Hellmuth shouted.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #000000;\">Hellmuth will have even more opportunities to extend his gold bracelet record this summer.<\/span><\/p><h3>Want to change Texas Holdem from \"can understand\" to \"can win\"?<\/h3><p><span style=\"color: #333300;\">If you want to learn more about Texas Hold'em, you can continue reading\uff1a<\/span><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/hunter.poker\/en\/texas-holdem-history\/\">The Origins of Texas Hold'em: Why is it the World's Most Popular Poker Variant?<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hunter.poker\/en\/texas-holdem-hand-rankings\/\">Texas Hold'em Hand Rankings and Showdown Rules (Beginner\u2019s Essentials)<\/a><br data-start=\"2628\" data-end=\"2631\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hunter.poker\/en\/texas-holdem-betting-actions\/\">Texas Hold'em Betting teaching: Check \/ Bet \/ Call \/Raise and Betting Strategy Analysis<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hunter.poker\/en\/texas-holdem-position-strategy\/\">The importance of Texas Hold'em position? 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