Phil Hellmuth saying he’s not taking part in on this 12 months’s World Collection of Poker’s Primary Occasion, Kevin Martin discovering gold in a sock drawer, and GGPoker shaking up its ambassador squad are the quick stacks CardsChat picked up in its newest orbit of poker information.
Hellmuth not taking part in WSOP Primary Occasion
Phil Hellmuth took to his socials to inform the poker world he won’t play on this 12 months’s World Collection of Poker’s Primary Occasion. His motive: At 60, he’s too outdated and the two-week lengthy marathon occasion is an excessive amount of of a poker grind.
“I believe that basically hurts the older gamers in a a lot larger proportion than the youthful gamers,” he stated by way of a video on X. “And I’ll say this: extra nice gamers come and inform me that they blew the principle occasion as a result of they obtained too drained with 100 left, 50 left, with 30 left. It’s became an endurance take a look at. I don’t suppose that the World Collection of Poker Primary Occasion is measuring talent.
It’s nonetheless my favourite occasion on the earth, don’t misunderstand me, I don’t wish to miss it. However I do know that I can’t do this. I’m 60 years outdated. I don’t suppose I might have performed it at age 50.”
Hellmuth was 24-years-old when he gained the Primary Occasion in 1989. The primary of his record-holding 17 WSOP brackets, it got here in a subject of 178. Final 12 months, extra 10,112 gamers battled for the $10 million high prize.
Hellmuth is asking WSOP organizers to make the blind ranges shorter and add an additional day or two off to the occasion as a way to make it extra honest to older gamers like himself.
He’s performed each Primary Occasion since 1988.
ElkY is out
French professional and poker persona Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier and GGPoker have parted method. Grospellier took to socials thanking GGPoker and informing his followers.
“GGPoker and I had an unimaginable journey collectively, however our trip has come to an finish. That stated, I’ll nonetheless be taking part in on GG and WSOP every so often, so I sit up for seeing you all on the tables,” he wrote.
GGPoker employed Grospellier as one among its ambassadors in 2020. He labored in the identical position earlier than for each partypoker and PokerStars.
The choice could also be performance-based. In line with the Hendon Mob, he solely had two cashes in 2024 (he did win an Asian Poker Tour occasion in March for $367,793). His 2023 was somewhat higher, cashing eight occasions. All however a type of cashes got here whereas taking part in in Asia.
Martin discover gold
These poker gamers, man. GGPoker ambassador Kevin Martin discovered $35,297 in a bitcoin pockets that he had forgotten about.
“This dude’s message made me dig up an outdated crypto pockets in my sock drawer. I believed it had possibly 1k on it. It has 0.37 of a bitcoin,” Martin wrote.
Yep, practically $40K stuffed in his sock drawer. The person who instructed he test his e-wallet, Erius777, obtained “somewhat tip,” Martin stated.
