Phil Hellmuth donning a blue wig for an additional poker pageant entrance and the Asian Poker Tour canceling a sequence whereas two tournaments we’re nonetheless operating are a pair quick stacks CardsChat picked up in its newest orbit of poker information.
Phil Hellmuth pulls a Poseidon at WSOP Paradise
On Sunday, hours into Day 1b of the $5,300 World Sequence of Poker Paradise’s Most important Occasion, Phil Hellmuth walked into the room dressed because the king of all oceans, Poseidon surrounded by girls dressed as his mermaid haram, 17 in complete — one for every of his record-best WSOP bracelets.
It is sensible as a result of the sequence is happening at Atlantas Paradise Island. Dressing up and making these selfish entrances late on the primary day he chooses to play has develop into one among his many signature strikes. This annoys some gamers who can get caught between making a crucial tournament-altering determination and a mermaid, however Daniel Negreanu defended the Poker Brat through a sequence of Tweets:
“Yearly Phil Hellmuth does a grandiose entrance to WSOP important occasion, and yearly some individuals complain about what’s in the end a minor inconvenience throughout a poker match, saying it’s ‘disrespectful.’
Personally, I feel these individuals ought to be thanking him for the colour and outrageousness he brings to the sport as a result of ultimately, these execs are all richer, partly, due to Phil’s antics each on and off the felt. You don’t have to love it. You’ll be able to suppose it’s obnoxious and self-indulgent. I wouldn’t do it… however I’m glad Phil does.”
Asian Poker Tour pulls plug on sequence in Hanoi
Asian Poker Tour officers pulled the plug on the Hanoi Billions 2023 not solely in the course of the sequence, however whereas two tournaments the place nonetheless operating, citing “extenuating circumstances which have arisen, ones that, regardless of our utmost efforts, we’re unable to beat.”
The sequence was scheduled to run from Dec. 1-10, and was 4 days into its Most important Occasion when the 47 remaining gamers had been advised the tourney wouldn’t be completed on Friday. These gamers had been paid in accordance with their chip stack dimension, and since Van Sang Nguyen, of Vietnam, had the most important stack when play was halted, he was declared the winner and was paid $180,000.
The tourney was shut down the identical day the APT bragged that its headliner in Hanoi was the most important poker match to happen in Vietnam: 2,350 entries (1,334 distinctive).
Gamers within the sequence’ Double Stack had been additionally affected by the shuttering. The tourney was ended and chopped 176 methods.
After the APT made the announcement through Twitter, it stopped individuals from commenting.
Right here’s their entire assertion that was launched on Dec. 8:
“The Asian Poker Tour regrets to announce the cancellation of APT Hanoi Billions 2023 for the rest of the sequence from December 9-10, 2023. All participant funds are safe and the strategy for receiving funds has been detailed under.
The choice to cancel the remaining days of the pageant has not been made flippantly. It’s rooted in extenuating circumstances which have arisen, ones that, regardless of our utmost efforts, we’re unable to beat.
The protection and well-being of our gamers and workers are of paramount significance to us, and we should prioritize these considerations above all else. We’re actually sorry, and we respect your understanding throughout this difficult scenario.”
APT has but to elucidate why they needed to cancel the sequence, however a clue could also be with the venue, the Nation Conference Heart, which isn’t a on line casino or card room.
