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Flashback Moment: Family Portrait, 1973
1973 pic of my family! So lucky to still be really close to everyone… Dad, Mom, Ann, Me, David, Kerry, and Molly. We’re all spread out over the US, but we still make time for big family gatherings several times a year. And our annual Christmas poker tournament is legendary!!
Send me your awkward family photos! Submit them and I may show them right here on PhilHellmuth.com.
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From the Archive: Hellmuth’s Hold’Em, Feb. 28, 2005
Texas Hold’em poker takes five minutes to learn but a lifetime to master — so says traditional thinking. From the outset, it appears simple: After the four rounds of betting are complete, each player forms the best possible five-card hand by selecting three cards from the five “shared” community cards and his or her two hidden “hole” cards. Granted, there’s a little more to the game than that. Read More »
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Sport Report: The Science of Picking the Perfect Bracket
There were over 1200 submitted brackets in my PH ESPN NCAA Tournament Challenge this past March and more than $3.5 billion spent on bracket tourneys overall in 2012! With cash like that you’ve gotta have a strategy for picking the winning teams right? Read More »
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Where in the World is Phil: Shadow Creek Golf Course
Love the incredible Shadow Creek Golf Course in Vegas. In my book, lunch over the 18th green + hitting balls all afternoon = relaxation. I’ve started to realize that playing golf well takes almost as much concentration as poker!! My form’s getting better every day, but it’s still no match against my buddy Tiger Woods.
Question: if you had to play 18 holes using ONLY 1 CLUB what club would you choose and why?
Photo courtesy Shadow Creek Golf Course
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Weekend Review: Social House LV
Hello Kobe Sashimi!! The amazing guys at Social House blow me away every time. The owners also run PURE, Studio 54, and LAX (to name a few) but personally, I think they did it best with Social House. Plus the restaurant’s usually packed with celebs. I recommend the Kobe Sashimi, the Kobe Gyoza, and Yokai (after dinner drink).
What’s your favorite restaurant in Vegas?
Photo courtesy of The Angel Management Group
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Trust Your Instincts
I have received a number of complaints recently through newspapers and Card Player magazine along the lines of “Phil, please don’t tell us the results of a ‘Poker After Dark’ episode before it airs.” Furthermore, it is now in my contract with NBC and “Poker After Dark” that I cannot reveal the results. OK, I can still talk about the lineup and a hand that I played during an episode. As many of you know, “PAD” appears on NBC six nights a week, 52 weeks per year at 2 a.m. A hit show, it gets better ratings than most other late-night programs.
“PAD” reminds me of the old days when I competed with mostly great players, many of whom have something interesting to say because they are clever, witty and sharp as a tack. And some are just plain characters! I love the fact that “PAD” shows every hand — or the vast majority of them — instead of “highlight-hand poker” that appears everywhere else. The hand that I’m going to talk about in this column occurred during a show with Clonie Gowen, Phil Laak, Gavin Smith, Mike Matusow, David Williams and me.
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