Annie's Up, Phil's Down
2007-09-13 11:16:00
By:
Gene Bromberg
Day 2 of the WSOP-E Main Event was split into two flights, just as Day 1 was, and so once again Annie Duke and Phil Hellmuth took to the felt in the hopes of building a big stack. Annie worked that plan to perfection, doubling up in a big hand with pocket Kings against A-K that helped push her near the top of the leaderboard. She currently sits with 191,700 chips, good for fifth place (with the second half of the field playing today, of course).
Phil...Phil didn't have a very good day. Not at all. He's still alive, mind you--but he only has 10,500 in chips. Which isn't a result likely to put Phil in a good mood. And for most of the day, he wasn't.
Reading through the
live updates, just about
every page features at least one entry where Hellmuth is in the middle of some manner of tirade. In Phil's defense he just about his entire stack when he was coolered in a hand with Mark McCluskey. Phil had pocket Sevens, McCluskey had pocket Jacks, and the flop came J-7-2. Set over set tends to get expensive, if you're the unfortunate soul with the under.
And as you might expect, Phil was bloodied but unbowed, pacing around the rail and sharing his inner thoughts with the crowd:
"No one plays the short stack like me."
"I'm the smartest player in the world."
"They just don't understand the beauty of it."
"I'm three levels above them. If I was just one level up, they'd get it."
"I love the challenge, I've come back hundreds of times."
The challenge for Annie and Phil resumes tomorrow, as the remaining players gather in one room for the first time and resume the battle for the bracelet.
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