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Phil Hellmuth Video Ranking: four / five

VARD LEADS THE DAY

After the World Poker Tour Paris National Series’ Day 2A that was noted by the qualifying of twenty-three poker players for the third day; the remaining survivors from the first day, 109 players assembled for the Day 2B yesterday. Among these poker players we see popular faces like Olivier Chaignard, Emeline Her, Tristan Clemencon, Anthony Lellouche and Jean Paul Pasqualini.

After some levels of playing, over half of the pack fell like Hemeline Her, Jean Paul Pasqualini, Tristan Clemencon and Antony Lellouche and there were only twenty-nine survivors. On the eve of the third day, Alexandre Viard is sitting at the top of world ranking with a deal of 528,000 chips followed by Remi Le Meur (473000 chips) and Clement Bonin (384000 chips) in the top three of the chip count of the day.

Out of twenty-nine poker players who survived that day, there were Davidi Kitai (323000 chips), Antoine Saout (283000 chips), Benoit Botteau (206000 chips), Peter Drochon (187000 chips), Marc Inizan (62000 chips) and Jean Daligault (49000 chips).

These twenty-nine players will participate by the twenty-three qualifies players from Day 2A. Therefore, Day 3 will assemble fifty-two survivors from the second day of which forty will go into the money list. At the beginning of the third day, Alexandre Viard is the chip leader of the Day 2A as well as 2B followed by Jean Luc Voyer, Clement Bonin, Bruno Soutavong, Enjoubault Jacques, Shinya Shimada, Franck Boyer, Nicolas Cardyn, Remi Le Meur and Yann Detychey.

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Phil Hellmuth Video clip Score: five / 5

HELLMUTH PULLS OUT

Prominent poker player Phil Hellumuth has decided not to participate in the $125,000 buy-in PartyPoker.com Premier League Poker V which is slated to take place in Vienna next month. Hellmuth is known as The Poker Brat and it was expected that he would join the likes of Phil Laak, Tom Dwan, Daniel Cates, Luke Schwartz and several others for the event.

Hellmuth has player in majority of the Premier League of the Poker events and he is 11 time World Series Of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner. He enjoyed his best run way back in 2007 when he finished third at the final table after winning four out of the six group matches.

The inaugural series was won by Finnish star Juha Helppi for $ 125,000 and Hellmuth has decided that with so many disappointing results in the Premier League enough is enough. Hellmuth’s decision can be understood considering that there is a star-studded line up for the latest series and he has not received any kind of support from his arch rival Tony G, who has taken a few digs at him.

At his PartyPoker blog, Tony G has written that Hellmuth has not got any sponsor and therefore he does not have the bankroll or the heart. This could lead to a war of words between Tony G and Hellmuth and the former enjoys an upper hand when it comes to torturing Hellmuth. The event will be produced by Matchroom Sport and will be presented by a Team Party Poker Pro Kara Scott.

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Phil Hellmuth Video Ranking: four / 5

HELLMUTH RAISES $110K

The 2nd Annual Phil Hellmuth’s Hold’em with Agrace HospiceCare charity event took place on the 17th of December in 2011. Professional poker player Phil Hellmuth went back to Madison, Wisconsin for another successful charity event. All the money raised in this event will be donated to the Agrace HospiceCare, a community-based, non-profit hospital devoted to offering expert emotional, physical and spiritual assistance to patients fighting life threatening conditions.

The Phil Hellmuth’s Hold’em with Agrace HospiceCare event of 2011 became a great success as it raised around $ 110K. According to sources, the event will take place again in 2012 around the same time. The event was attended by many celebrities as well as poker pros such as the champion of 2007 World Series of Poker Europe Annette Obrestad, the fourth-place finisher in 1998 WSOP Dewey Weum, Eddie Blumenthal, Anthony “D1rtyR1v3r” Nardi, Mike “Wisco” Murray and Mark Kroon. Other celebrities included Carleen Wild, Leigh Mills and Charlie Shortino from NBC 15, UW Badgers and NFL player Derek Engler, golf pro Jerry Kelly. Mark Johnson, part of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and the Badgers coach for the women’s hockey team, was also present at the event.

The charity tournament was an entertaining one with Laura Schultz winning the title. Schultz had to overcome some stiff competition from other players including the defending champion Kroon. Wisconsin businessman John Orr was the final table bubble boy in the 10th place, progressing towards players like “Madtown” Jerry, Nardi, Morgan Machina, Kroon and John Green. Nardi tried his best to defend the title, but finally he finished the tournament at the fourth place. Schultz claimed the title by conquering Green heads-up.

The next day a number of attendees were selected for some unofficial poker games with Kroon (winners: Mark Stevens, George Kingand and Gary Rice), Obrestad (winners: Wayne Harris, Scott Saunders and Dick Solis) and Hellmuth (winners: Paul Guyette, Mike Saunders and Josh Nelson).