Listening to Phil Hellmuth and Dave Ulliot's interviews after they bomb out first in another Poker Premier League heat, you wonder if they might have been suffering from genuine paranoid delusions all these years rather than just behaving like a couple of ego-centric cretins.Hellmuth and Dave Ulliot are fairly old by now anyway, but given their opponents in this competition have yet to start shaving (except Annette maybe), both of them are looking and playing like ancient relics.
They're like a couple of Lancaster Bombers with dialog clocks and a payload of conventional bombs. They can cause a lot of damage if they can get close enough to their targets, but are so easily spotted they can be destroyed long before they get anywhere near them.
Tom Dwan, Peter Eastgate and little Annette Obrestad on the other hand are like a fleet of Stealth bombers with digital read outs, traveling at 2,000 miles an hour, firing lazer guided bombs which destroy their targets without anyone having seen them or heard them.
If Hellmuth and Dave Ulliot were genuinely mental one might feel some sympathy for them, but unfortunately it's far more likely that their ego's have just cocooned them in a shell impenetrable by reality. It seems no matter how badly they play, both of them are still able to convince themselves they were unlucky.Their ego's may be secure, but their money and chips are certainly not safe from the attacks of their only very recently post-pubescent opponents. It could get quite messy. Nurse, the screens please.
2 comments:
I'm convinced that Hellmuth and DevilFish just play up for the cameras and those around them. There is no way on this Earth they are that retarded. The come across as proper twats!
To be fair, Devilfish is a different class player to anybody else in the field. His instincts are almost always right. The amount of bad luck he gets is unbelievable.
Hellmuth is simply not suited by the fast paced format. He's pretty darn good at the long events though.
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