Hand of the Week: Play the Player!

Date: 2012.10.30 | Category: Hand Of The Week | By: Phil Hellmuth   

On day two of the World Series of Poker’s Main Event in 2008, I found myself bluffed out of a huge hand by a fellow player from my home state of Wisconsin.

I was more than a little steamed because the young Wisconsinite – who I will call “Green Bay” because he had dressed the part in a Green Bay Packers sweatshirt, my favorite NFL team – just couldn’t resist the urge to flip his cards after I folded to rub it in: a stone cold bluff.  Look, he made a good play, but it’s always war at the poker table, right?

I told him (after I was done being a Poker Brat): “Good play, but you never should have shown me your hand.  Now I’m going to watch you and take you down.”

Getting personal in these things is never a good idea, but sometimes I can’t help myself.