What a difference Hellmuth Makes - Page 3

daryn · #1 07-28-2005, 09:05 PM

i agree 100%. his analysis is often dead on even without seeing the hole cards

ClaytonN · #2 07-28-2005, 11:40 PM

What turned me into a Hellmuth fan, really, was the fact he took so much time out of his personal life to contribute to the CardPlayer final table radio broadcast into the wee, wee hours of the morning. And keep in mind, that morning was his birthday. And he's giving a really enjoyable final table broadcast. That says things.

I also totally agree with his opinion on why it would be silly to play Negreanu HU for any large sum of money.

Smoothcall · #3 07-29-2005, 01:30 AM

Well i don't necessarily agree it was so nice of him to take time out of his busy schedule. I think Phil is thinking business and wants to broadcast one day maybe. And keep his name in the limelight and well known to sell books and other such things.

Btw what did he say about playing the HU matches against daniel? Does he think he plays better than daniel? And why did he say it was silly? Thanks for your response.

ClaytonN · #4 07-31-2005, 06:37 PM

[ QUOTE ]
Well i don't necessarily agree it was so nice of him to take time out of his busy schedule. I think Phil is thinking business and wants to broadcast one day maybe. And keep his name in the limelight and well known to sell books and other such things.

[/ QUOTE ]

Possibly, but I would like to think a lot of people would not go out of their way to promote their own business by staying up until 6 AM of their birthday [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[ QUOTE ]
Btw what did he say about playing the HU matches against daniel? Does he think he plays better than daniel? And why did he say it was silly? Thanks for your response.

[/ QUOTE ]

He said it woulnd't make sense to play Daniel even IF he was a 55% favorite. He explained self-weighting strategy in layman's terms.

#5 07-29-2005, 12:32 PM

I thought his broadcast of the WSOP main event final table on cardplayer was really entertaining. He talked about himself a lot of course, but he also gave analysis about the hands that you don't hear on WPT or ESPN ever.

carpe2k · #6 07-29-2005, 08:35 PM

Interesting about the McEnroe comparisons. Doyle Brunson and Howard Lederer were on McEnroe's Show (when it was still on last year) and they both joked with John about a certain player who was the "McEnroe" of poker. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

CaptSensible · #7 07-30-2005, 01:14 AM

I thought Howard Lederer did a great job when I saw him doing commentary. I liked him and Annie together too.
Howard was a "just the facts" kind of commentator but his understanding of the game makes his commentary fascinating to me. Personally I think Helmuth is great. As a player and commentator. I like his brattiness. He kind of expresses the way we all feel when we get that suck out bad beat, lol.
What I REALLY like about him is that he knows he's a brat and earlier on expressed an understanding that it wasn't cool and he needed to become a bit more mature about it all. I, personally, think that it's good buisness for him and he realizes that what was once just "bad form" is now good tv. I think he uses that image to his advantage now.