Short-Stack Roller-Coaster: Phil Hellmuth Chops a Pot, Wins a Pot, Loses an All-In

A player raises from middle position to 42,000, Phil Hellmuth moves all in from the cutoff for 166,000, and his opponent calls with . Hellmuth turns over , and as long as there aren’t three hearts on the board, he’ll stay alive.

The board comes , and it’s a chopped pot.

Phil Hellmuth  –  189,000  (9 bb)

The next hand, Hellmuth raises from the hijack to 86,500 (46% of his stack), and everyone folds. Hellmuth takes the pot.

Phil Hellmuth  –  233,000  (12 bb)

The next hand, the UTG+1 player (whose screenname ends with “K344”) moves all in for 101,000, and Hellmuth moves all in over the top from middle position for 231,000 with .

K344 turns over , and needs to improve to stay alive.

The board comes — Hellmuth flops a pair of queens to K344’s flush draw, but K344 pairs his four on the turn and his nine on the river to win the pot with two pair, nines and fours, to double up in chips.

K344  –  248,000  (12 bb)
Phil Hellmuth  –  130,000  (7 bb)