100th WSOP Cash Finish!

Date: 2013.10.17 | Category: Poker | By: Phil Hellmuth

(by Rich Ryan, reposted from PokerNews.com)

In 1878, Tommy Bond became the first MLB pitcher to win 100 games. In 1920, Joe Malone became the first player to score 100 goals in the NHL. In 1970, Sonny Jurgensen became the first quarterback to throw for 100 touchdowns in the Super Bowl era of the NFL. In 1980, Brian Taylor became the first player to make 100 three-point shots in the NBA.

On Thursday, when the bubble burst in Event #5: €2,200 No-Limit Hold’em at the 2013 World Series of Poker Europe, 13-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth became the first player to ever cash in 100 bracelet events. Eight-time bracelet winner Erik Seidel also cashed in the event, and remains in second on the all-time cashes list with 80.

Here is the top 10:

Rank	Player	Cashes	Bracelets	WSOP Earnings
1	Phil Hellmuth	100	13	$12,268,218*
2	Erik Seidel	80	8	$4,651,450*
3	Men Nguyen	79	7	$3,165,159
4	Humberto Brenes	72	2	$2,264,333
5	Chris Bjorin	68	2	$2,428,929
6	Daniel Negreanu	67	5	$5,064,839
7	Barry Greenstein	64	3	$2,924,033
T8	John Juanda	63	5	$4,643,331
T8	Chris Ferguson	63	5	$4,068,677
T8	Berry Johnston	63	5	$2,094,362

_{*The earnings have not been updated through Event #5}

What’s impressive about this list is the amount of bracelets Hellmuth has compared to how many events he’s cashed in. Exactly 13 percent of the time the Poker Brat makes the money, he wins a bracelet. Seidel has the second-best bracelets-to-cashes percentage within the top 10, winning gold in 10% of the events he reaches the money in.

Here’s the bracelets-to-cashes rate for the 11 players who have won six or more bracelets:

Rank	Player	Bracelets	Cashes	Rate
1	Johnny Moss	9	27	33.3%
2	Doyle Brunson	10	36	27.8%
3	Billy Baxter	7	30	23.3%
4	Johnny Chan	10	45	22.2%
5	Phil Ivey	9	52	17.3%
6	Layne Flack	6	37	16.2%
7	Jay Heimowitz	6	39	15.4%
8	Phil Hellmuth	13	100	13%
9	Erik Seidel	8	80	10%
10	T.J. Cloutier	6	60	10%
11	Men Nguyen	7	79	8.9%

Moss, Brunson, Baxter, and Chan all benefit from small field sizes, while five of Ivey’s bracelets have come after Chris Moneymakerwon the 2003 Main Event. Four of Hellmuth’s wins have come in the post-Moneymaker era.

All of Flack’s bracelets have come after 1999.

Among players with 50 or more cashes, the one with the lowest bracelets-to-cashes rate is Tony Cousineau. Cousineau has cashed in 58 bracelet events, yet he’s never finished higher than fourth.

Hellmuth was unable to turn his 100th cash into his 50th final table appearance or 14th bracelet. The Poker Brat lost most of his stack against Ariel Celestino, when the Brazilian fired three barrels on a board that came . Hellmuth folded to the third bullet, an all-in bet, and Celestino showed the .

Convinced his opponent was bluffing, Hellmuth went into a tirade, and later tweeted that he folded :

PHIL_HELLMUTH @phil_hellmuth

Tough tough spot, but if I trust my read and CALL, then I’m chip leader. I had 8s-6s on 8d-5d-2c-5d-3d board and he bet big every street!October 17, 2013