Bryn Kenney referring to Phil Hellmuth as a “minor league poker participant” did not set nicely with Dan “Jungleman” Cates who defended the “Poker Brat” in a six-minute YouTube video.
The insult directed on the 17-time World Collection of Poker (WSOP) champion occurred throughout an interview on the Digital Social Hour Podcast with host Sean Kelly.
“Lots of people label Hellmuth because the ‘Event G.O.A.T.,” however I might love to listen to your opinion. As a result of he would not actually play within the greater stakes tournaments such as you do,” Kelly advised his visitor.
Kenney first talked about that Hellmuth is the “largest profitable WSOP participant,” which is hard to argue provided that Hellmuth holds the file for WSOP bracelets and closing desk appearances by a large margin.
“He has his profession, which is spectacular, too,” Kenney stated of Hellmuth’s WSOP efficiency.
However that’s the place the compliments ended. He went on to assault the 1989 world champion’s efficiency on the highest stakes.
“He is performed some excessive rollers and hasn’t actually fared very nicely in them, and you recognize, after I take into consideration who’re the very best gamers in poker, if you happen to’re not competing on the highest degree, you possibly can’t actually be in competition for it,” Kenney argued.
Kenney then instructed Hellmuth might be “the top of some sub-category that exists some other place,” implying that Hellmuth is solely the very best World Collection of Poker participant, not an general G.O.A.T. He then knocked Hellmuth’s supposed incapability to thrive when competing within the “small fields with the very best gamers.”
“In case you’re enjoying in opposition to largely beginner gamers on the World Collection, you are nice at beating the beginner gamers. It is like you can be the King of Triple A,” Kenney stated.
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Cates took to his YouTube channel to defend Hellmuth in opposition to the criticism from Kenney, who not too long ago grew to become the primary poker participant to succeed in $70 million in The Hendon Mob reside match cashes. He first knocked down each gamers a bit by saying “they’re each somewhat stuffed with s**t.”
“I discover it ironic that Bryn Kenney is saying he is the very best on this planet for really what is comparatively much less of an achievement than what Phil Hellmuth has executed,” Cates stated, referring to Hellmuth’s WSOP bracelet file in comparison with Kenney’s Hendon Mob stats. “That is really what you must have a look at. You must have a look at how comparatively troublesome issues are, not how completely troublesome issues seem like.”
Jungleman then made an analogy to defend Hellmuth. He defined that it is much less of an accomplishment to invent a pc now than it was when computer systems have been “arduous to construct.”
“It was an accomplishment to construct a pc when nobody knew what the f**ok a pc was and somebody introduced it into existence,” Jungleman continued.
The analogy he is making is that Hellmuth dominated in poker earlier than solvers, sims, and all of the examine supplies gamers have at their disposal these days. He is arguing that Kenney has racked up large ends in poker in an period the place greater buy-in tournaments can be found than within the Nineteen Eighties and Nineties, and that Hellmuth’s rise to greatness in poker was harder.
Hellmuth, as Jungleman talked about, did not simply win WSOP bracelets within the pre-GTO period of poker. He is received three since 2018 and set the single-series file with seven closing desk appearances on the 2021 World Collection of Poker.
Cates admits that Kenney is now a superior poker participant to Hellmuth, however he would not approve of Kenney marking himself as the very best poker participant on this planet, utilizing a trick out of Hellmuth’s advertising playbook.
“That is clearly an influence play that’s full f*****g b******t, as a result of as somebody I declare to be higher than Bryn Kenney, really, I am questioning why the f**ok is that this man capable of get away with calling himself the very best on this planet,” Jungleman stated. “I do not assume that is actually proper. If I do not personally assume it is proper.”
Jungleman then wrapped up his video by suggesting “the world can be a greater place” if those that declare to be the very best on this planet however actually weren’t would cease doing so.
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