The Hellmuth Train Wreck

Date: 2007.05.07 | Category: Hand Of The Week | By: Phil Hellmuth   

In the $25,000 buy-in Tour Championship event that I played in last week, I feel like near perfect play would carry a player for three days, regardless of the hands you pick up. The structure was that slow and good.

Of course, picking up A-A and getting most of your money in pre-flop against someone who then outdraws you would be a tough way to avoid going broke. But other than a really unlucky situation, I believe that I should last at least three days, at least when I’m on top of my game. After playing perfect poker for three days, I woke up on Day 4 feeling miserably tired. So what? I woke up super tired Day 2 as well and pushed through that all the way to the chip lead. I should have been able to push through this too, but for some reason I struggled.