Not Quite the OK Corral
Sunday, June 21, 2009 - Gene Bromberg
Today was the $5,000 No-Limit Shootout event, where some of the best Hold-Em players in the world sat down and did battle until just one at each table was left standing. Phil Hellmuth survived all the way through to heads-up play, where he squared off against Andrea Benelli. I think it was Johnny Chan who once said that chips are like bullets–the more chips you have, the more ammunition you bring to the fight. In this heads-up match Phil was terribly outgunned–Benelli held about 90% of the chips and extended his lead until the final confrontation. When he wanted to raise Benelli would grab a neat cylinder of yellow 1,000 chips (which barely made a dent in his stack) and slam them down on the felt.
One the final hand Phil limped on the button and Benelli grabbed a fistful of chips and set them before him. Phil stacked up the last of his chips and pushed them forward, and this should give you an idea of the discrepancy in their stacks. The yellow ones are 1,000, the green ones are 25. Better to have yellow chips:
It’s also better to have K-Q than K-10, which were the cards Benelli and Hellmuth respectively turned over. Phil got no help from the board and he was out, left to vent his frustrations over the last two days to well-wishers on the rail while Benelli moves on to play tomorrow.
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