Famous Poker Legends

Archive for September, 2009

The self-described “poker brat” is one of the poker’s most controversial and intriguing players. From time to time he demonstrates something that is very rare even amongst high stakes poker players- a level of ingenuity. Hellmuth is originally from Madison, Wisconsin. He is a university dean son. He started to play seriously poker when he was accepted at the University of Wisconsin and very soon after that he discovered he was more interested in playing poker than in studying. Hellmuth played his first World Series of Poker at the age of 24. He managed to shock the world of poker by becoming the youngest winner in the history of Binion’s annual classic and upsetting the two-time champion Johnny Chan. Hellmuth is well known for terrorizing with devastating hot streaks the poker circuit. In all Hall of Fame events at the Horseshoe in 1991 he finished in the top five. He won two years later an unprecedented three World Series of Poker events. In 1995 Hellmuth won the Hall of Fame championship as well. Amazingly, all of Hellmuth’s big wins have been in Texas Hold’em events having in mind that he usually plays all games. At the moment, Hellmuth lives in the Bay area of San Francisco. He can be seen at most important tournaments and he continues to play high-stakes poker.