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Love him or hate him, you simply cannot deny the star power of one Phillip Jerome Hellmuth Jr. Forget the antics, forget the hissy-fits, forget the tantrums, just look at his body of work and what he has accomplished in this his "comeback" season.
Like it or not, the man sure knows how to play poker ... and guess what? He can be humble in defeat - here is a tweet he posted a few hours ago ...
@phil_hellmuth
phil_hellmuth Congrats to Brian Rast, he played great, and all of the poker world truly loves him...Great guy...
This one really stings for Hellmuth though. He had a 17M to 2.4M chip lead but was unable to stop Brian Rast's charge, and, in the end, Rast picks up his second bracelet of the series.
Both players enter the PTPR Top 15 - Rast jumps all the way up 5th overall on the 2011 PTPR Tournament Player of the Year Leaderboard. Defending WPT World Champion Scott Seiver's and Owais Ahmed's performances also put them on the PTPR Leaderboard while Ben Lamb improved his position on the list, moving to 8th overall.
Other notables who scored PTPR Points in the event:
Matt Glantz, George Lind, Jason Lester, Vladimir Shchemelev, Jeff Lisandro, Yan Chen, Josh Arieh, Michael Binger, Barry Greenstein and Sebastien Ruthenberg.
Here are the payouts (in USD) for the final table participants:
1 Brian Rast 1,720,328
2 Phil Hellmuth 1,063,034
3 Minh Ly 665,763
4 Owais Ahmed 482,085
5 Matt Glantz 376,750
6 George Lind 300,441
7 Scott Seiver 243,978
8 Ben Lamb 201,338
PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2011 World Series of Poker
50K Poker Player's Championship
July 2-6, 2011
Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino | Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Buy-in: $50,000 | Prizepool: $6,144,000 | Entries: 128
FINAL RESULTS:
BRIAN RAST 151
PHIL HELLMUTH 91
MINH LY 76
OWAIS AHMED 66
MATTHEW GLANTZ 61
GEORGE LIND 56
SCOTT SEIVER 51
BEN LAMB 46
JASON LESTER 36
VLADIMIR SHCHEMELEV 26
JEFFREY LISANDRO 21
YAN CHEN 19
JOSH ARIEH 19
MICHAEL BINGER 19
BARRY GREENSTEIN 16
SEBASTIEN RUTHENBERG 16
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