1996 United States Poker Championship 1/5

[godzac]

Goold old Gabe

[cloudstrife1288]

oh yaaaa baby I wanna see some hot poker action!

[champions20000009]

OVER $1000 OF FREEROLLS A DAY ON HIGH PULSE POKER

JOIN TODAY USING CODE POKERCHIPS

~~~ NO DEPOSIT REQUIRED~~~

[Koopatroopa01]

Phil was such a pimp back in the day.

[pokerplayer232]

@pp0u1110 Paul Mckinney is a character, thats for sure. I've actually played him at casinos and some home games. He has a world series of poker bracelet, and has played almost his whole life.

[gix500]

a mime is looking for his shirt

[arlichar11]

gottta love the big stogey...i cant imagine playin pker without one

[AA72AA72]

Did Phil's mommy dress him up to go see Santa at the mall?

[PoliceRPG]

how the fuck can you watch this garbage if they dont use whole card cams

[PoliceRPG]

lol they are treating phil helmuth like he is the god

[srki22]

Wow, players were so bad, average is around 110k and blinds 2k/4k and the button raises to 30k!!! So bad!!! 7.5x on the button. Even Phil raises to 3x which is wrong when the average stack is only 25bb. If an average today's losing player went in the past he would crush them!

[weefeatures]

'texas hold 'em, it's a variation of 7 card stud'....

nowadays it would be the other way round, my how things have changed :D

[sondre2409]

gabe!

[BigSamFoSho]

I once folded 9 3 offsuit, I swear

[jh872sf]

I see Phil is wearing a shirt from the Herb Tarlek collection. lol

[Bulloxe4]

wow, and this was only 14 years ago

[Yamakashi1]

i love how phil hasnt changed anything from his repertoire "we were just now talkin with my friend about how i can get kings or aces and get him all in drawing dead"

ROFL phil, suck my dick.

[Yamakashi1]

how is texas holdem a variation of 7 card stud

[dimit0]

they started with 100 players....lol

its about 100 times more now..

[Dryndal]

@dimit0

they started with 4000 players...

[Arlekhine]

Who the fuck is Dan7426?

[JimenezLeon]

everybody played so tight phil could just run over a table back then.

[i99xx]

hellmuths blouse looks like shit lol

[benjkamu]

4000 was alot in 1996

[Delirious1977]

Wow, back before hole-card cameras, there was absolutely NO reason to televise any of this.

[jhalas20]

much better without hole card cameras. you got to make actual real reads and not be influenced by the camera.

[quipster811]

Wait a sec., is that Fred Chamanara walking past at 1:50 ?

[Dan742617000027]

Who the fuck is Fred Chamanara?

[supern00b]

hahahahHAHAHAH

[FakeAssKilla]

@Dan742617000027

he also played at hsp 10 years later

[Dan742617000027]

@FakeAssKilla

You know, it's funny. I just watched a few episodes of High Stakes Poker recently & the table included Fred Chamanara, Daniel Negreanu, Mike Matusow, etc.

So now I finally know who Fred Chamanara is!! XD

[bahlgren342]

lol look at Gabe

[iagoil]

Wow!!!

Once upon a time Hellmuth was young!!!!!!!

[TLing]

Anybody else find it funny that this is only 7 years after the '89 WSOP, where Hellmuth looks like an extra from Freaks and Geeks, and Phil now looks basically like he does today?

[fredpunk123]

gabe caplan

[thegreenleprechaun]

His phrases don't phrase me

[SNPTproductions]

4:22 Standing up after pushing all in is a bad tell.

a free tip for ya all

[Yamakashi1]

yeah..but

maybe its reversed.

[qazwsxoi]

Surindar Surnar had so much hair!!

[wankstankonia]

Everything from the compering, to the graphical transitions, commentary to the bad clothing and hairstyle of the 90s is such a far cry from what you see today! Its amazing.

[tyrone37]

man phil thinks hes so good because he has 2 braclets. i think hes lucky and not good. he won both braclets vs 9 person tables and only like 100 people in each. i won plenty of freerolls with like 1500 and i got a 36th finish in a freeroll. so if i can get through that feild i think i can get through 100. id have 100 braclets if i was in his shoes

[adamframe]

Are you talking about online poker?

[jclwhite]

Doesnt he have 11 bracelets?

Its hard to argue with.

[sergeidave]

LOL. Then what are you doing here watching youtube videos instead of playing big poker games and winning big money?? A 36th finish in a 1500 guys freeroll? Come on, I've placed 2nd more than twice in 2000 player fields and I KNOW I'm very far from being something other than a humble amateur. Online, freeroll, come on, this is a totally different story. Those guys pay big buy-ins so they better be decent players, not online rookies like US.

[G00DFELLAZ]

2 bracelets? you mean 11?

And believe me i'm not a fan of Hellmuth, he's a great texas hold em tournament player though, probably one of the best of all time with TJ Cloutier and Stu Ungar without a doubt.

Bracelets aren't everything though, one of the greatest player to ever live had only 3 bracelets (i'm talking about Chip Reese)

Some of these guys just don't want to play wsop events as much as Hellmuth.

But did you just compare an internet field full of donks to the world series of poker?

[hubertandclyde]

@tyrone37 I know your comment is over a year old, but wow you are an idiot.

[nikeboy921]

@hubertandclyde when I read his comment I was dumbfounded with what I was reading...

[loopstheloop]

hA!

poker before the glass table is SHIT boring

[freddyfvckface]

Hellmuth, for all the money he wins , dresses like a bum, always has the worst hairdo, AND is a suck .... his mamma raised him wrong

[punkrocker1208]

um.... its 1991 in this vid coon

[asd9028]

do u know wat or who a coon is

[punkrocker1208]

yep. a coon is a nigger. nigger.

[asd9028]

u call me a nigger. u negro

[fcthcthpsthc]

nice shirt Helmuth, did you make out of a fucking 80s keyboard or a crossword puzzle you asshole?

[deadmonable]

do you think he is going to answer to you you moron?

[AlphaOmegaAWH]

Was Phil Hellmuth the Poker Brat from the beginning or was it like a gradual evolution?

[ELowkey7]

nice shirt Phil!

[ELowkey7]

Gabe Kaplan looks so young

[KillEveryoneKillPhil]

lol retro poker XD

[MaxEm87]

"a variation of seven card stud" no- not really

[LEECH44]

actually it is you stupid dumb fuck

[MaxEm87]

there are three types of poker: draw, stud, and community. A variation of stud would be stud hi/lo or razz. Texas holdem is a community game like omaha, so no its not really a variation of stud

[ZorkinStein]

Wish we could at least know the community cards

[gaud123]

Do they still have this tournament?

[stashJ8]

yes, but espn cancelled the tv contract for the event after either 2006 or 07 im not sure which one, but the event still goes on, although w/o the tv draw the number of entrants have gone down

[4463013]

only 55 people there this year

[osumb17]

whats up with phils shirt..still in the 80s

[downer12256]

the "best holdem player" in the world waits for the aces or the kings to knock the aggressive guy out..what a plan phil

[vRoja]

Surinder looks a whole lot like Borat with the 'stache.

[suneel7]

its only 1996 and damn check out the style.. what the hell are the wearing

[benschke4]

there wearing the clothes of your mum

[Raskolnikov32]

lol at the big gay tache on Surinder.

[andybananas1]

did he say 4000 entrants..thats nuts,..i thaugh entrants were minimal bfore the poker boom

[asong1588]

he said 100.

[trane1959]

nice shirt, Phil

[segasonic623]

I believe I just found 32 down... "RECURRENT"

And 13 across: "NEPOTISM"