Re: Hellmuth Lateness Policy
There's no way they just happened to be waiting there.
ESPN asked Phil when and where he was going to arrive...or Phil just told them, "Hey...you guys might want to bring your cameras to this spot and this time."
It was about 115 degrees outside that day (I'm not exaggerating, that was the high temp) and they wouldn't have left a camera out there just for the hell of it.
ESPN cameras were running around trying to catch anything interesting on about 170 different tables...so it's not like they actually had a lot of extra cameras/people to spare.
FWIW - I was at Johnny chan's table and he showed up about 40 minutes late.
I saw a pic of him in some magazine (Bluff or All-in or one of those) of him with a group of people at some restaurant 'the night before the WSOP'. He was wearing the exact same t-shirt in that photo the night before as he was at the main-event so I'm guessing he might have stayed out kinda late the night before.
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