Phil Hellmuth's WORST POKER HANDS || Lex Reflects

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

So what do you think of version 2.0 of Lex Reflects?

[@samkerr4095]

I think you should do at least a video a week of Hellmuthian implosions

[@davidmulligan7175]

I think if you do an old school vid or even new of yourself one week and then a version of this from someone else the week after would be great

[@davidmulligan7175]

Also, one week would be good to reflect on if something big happened in the poker world. For instance, Airball losing 750k last week.

[@hehehehehehehehehehe2881]

Says the guy eho has been losing for 8 years straight, lmao. Maybe sit this one out clown

[@dimenigma9274]

Great one. Suggestion for the next episode the big cash win of Rampage on Hustler!

[@Nikkithedog-t6b]

Hellmuth is so outclassed by deep stack cash game players and he legitimately had no business playing at that level. Losing money scares him. All that fear is non existent in tournaments.

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

Meh it's definitely just a different game. I have to say I commend him for recognizing uncomfortability being this deep

[@dantonkull6491]

Dude Phil Hellmuth is not a professional poker player, he is just a brand ambassador at this point. Just no point commenting on him, he doesn’t care about the game.

[@Glitch47278]

@@dantonkull6491 agreed, I don’t think he could beat live 1/2.

[@kingsally2864]

bro he limps TT off 15bb in MTTs, what do you mean he doesnt have fear there?

[@QuantumRizzX]

Do you see his sponsors? I’d be afraid to lose money too if I was sponsored by stuff nobody buys

[@wietsehasper1838]

This format is really good! Love the content grind Lex!

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

Appreciate it!

[@shemgoltz]

Lmao @ at the Kevin Martin roast at the end of the video. You're a savage Lex 😂

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

I mean it had to be done. Come on.

[@Vlozh]

Lex reflects was my favourite series of yours and it got 3 times better now! At least on par with what Doug is putting out. Great stuff man.

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

Big compliment thanks dude

[@gilialadim]

I watch you so much on streams that it feels like a friend is commenting on the video, not a pro with technical terms etc. It's so friendly and so much fun watching you analyze Phill's hand and behavior. Thanks mr Lex and keep up the videos.

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

Ayyyyyyy thanks bro

[@JamesTailor7]

Hellmuth does that a lot, lying about his hand afterwards when it really doesn't make any difference. This was a crazy analysis, very detailed and clear!

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

I don't understand haha. Kings is already pretty unlucky

[@KevinDurantisnot]

As much as the word narcissist gets overused nowadays , he is the true poster definition of it to the point he impulsively wants to protect his image by lying

[@alexandruion7660]

He is lying to get sympathy from other players I think or some kind of unknown brain disorder.

[@billymabum3514]

AA vAk is much stronger than KK vAK . He’s just trying to make himself look more unlucky

[@user-vx1up7ty7z]

@@LexVeldhuisTV I think it's just a reflex to avoid giving away his actual hand. Doesn't make sense half the time, but he's not thinking straight any time he loses a big pot

[@isaacentebi7383]

hearing you talk about the cash game scene and analyzing hands is top tier content, keep it up mate gl

[@Giltechhh]

Loved this format. Also really liked when you looked back at some of your OG online hands in the early stages of your career

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

Ty! New one from the past out this Thursday

[@wackaflacka548]

Just found your content recently Lex, really enjoying it so far. Really like your method of explaining and breaking things down.

[@67steinip]

Love the new version of Lex Reflects............and that tiny bit of needle on the end to KMart haha

[@24Cristiandiaz]

Look at you go Lex! The channel is on fire with awesome content!!

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

Trying different things

[@Matthew-gg8ep]

Lex these are just great content mate really appreciate you putting these together

[@ronhunt2254]

It might be the biggest pots he's lost. But the list of his bad plays is endless

[@ronhunt2254]

His biggest weakness is he won't be bluffed and that's very exploitable

[@kevintwine2315]

He’s actually getting worse at cash games, which I didn’t think was possible

[@ronhunt2254]

@@kevintwine2315 he's better in tournaments. One buy in make your chips last. He can't cope with high stakes players with many bullets

[@Blue1479758]

​@@ronhunt2254 ? The man is kind of known for his legendary folds

[@ronhunt2254]

@@Blue1479758 not in cash games the pros treat him as the fish

[@diezelsyndicate553]

I definitely like your content over Polks you're speaking faster and not wasting time on your opinion instead putting time into explaining what are some of the best responses to bets re raises etc

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

Stylistic preference I think. Doug makes great content, but I appreciate the shout!

[@kevanrennie9106]

Great video as usual! I'm stealing the ''echo tilt chamber'' quote 😁

[@dorkovic]

I've been, and still am, enjoying Lex Reflects from ep1, but I will say I enjoy watching you reflect on old tv-hands more. I think there's just nothing like the good old Big Game.

[@IINomad]

Lex, your commentary is so good. Like many levels better than anyone else in the game now.

[@willie838]

Love all your KZbin content lex. Keep up the good work.

[@thekimfamily1380]

Lex, you should find the clip where the villain ('Mad Genius') talks about coming up to Hellmuth before the game and tried to shake Phil's hand, but Phil didn't want to (lol). He talks about this hand and said it was so much sweeter doubling up after that happened.

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

Damn! That would have been great to include!

[@danieldonnelly4255]

I prefer when Lex reflects covers recent hands and not hands that happened 10/20 years ago, poker was different back then and those hands have being replayed to death

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

Yeah it's just to show people my history and connet it to my past. People have asked me to do my old hands a lot

[@danieldonnelly4255]

@@LexVeldhuisTV Fair enough. I really enjoyed this Lex reflects, keep them coming. Thanks for the reply.

[@sabincioflec8413]

I like the format but i really disagree about the flatcalling KK that needs protection in comparison to AA that can be flat there sometimes. You can see the same thing in gtowizard or any sim where we flat a 4b a lot of AA in position especially ( i suggest even OOP since you can strengthen your calling range ) . If you push out with KK some AK and some QQ/JJ you don't mind since especially AK has decent equity, but with AA the reverse is true.

[@jeffreyguilmot8772]

Love the kmart needle

[@ffallenaangel]

I love phil helmut even do he is what all know. His line "he called a rise wirh q10 honey" eill forever be my fav poker line

[@danmanpowerup8684]

I really like how you don't scrutinize Phil's play based on general opinions of him as a person. You were professionally critical and absolutely fair in all situations - you're the man Lex, big love dude.

[@MsSuckmynutz]

He's an arrogant clown

[@KenmeriCaptain]

really great content and I like how you talk about his mental along with his game play. good vid lex!

[@daveconchevsky7419]

Really loving the YT content Lex - appreciate the effort you're putting in! :)

[@joes.8351]

This is good, I actually prefer this type of analysis to going deep into solvers, but I'm just a rec. I would like to see this type of format done on Nik Airball. Good job regardless.

[@PatrickPray]

Wow, love this content. Really hope Lex makes more videos like this. Actually feel I learned something... Thanks!

[@heinrichh.6369]

really love this kind of content as much as i love watching Hellmuth tilting. Great video Lex!

[@brettmasonmedia]

You are doing some great content. Earned a subscribe.

[@prinzalbert818]

this was super nice lex!

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

ty!

[@marioholzl5439]

The Best Poker Content in yt.. and thats the truth... thx Lex for your nice Videos

[@shipit1timeplz517]

Love the commentary and have always enjoyed your streams

[@happysunshinemassacre6673]

dude I love Lex Reflects 2.0, great commentary on these PH hands. The AK I could not believe, I was like why are you folding when you should be raising? but yeah you nailed it, he is afraid to play this deep so he should be buying in shorter

[@muffinman4811]

Love the lil roast of kev at the end there lmao

[@landon6397]

Very good stuff lex, keep it coming! 🤙🏽

[@Don_Artie]

love the dig at kevin out of nowhere on the end haha

[@andreassaaro5611]

very nice format I like to keep it up!!!!!

[@noah4463]

So fun and informative!

[@urex1717]

First time seeing one of your videos. Liked, subscribed and hit the notification bell as well.

[@MichaelBonet-mu2vf]

Great commentary, thanks Lex

[@matthijsdenengelsman3574]

As always, thanks for the insights Lex!

[@bills1157]

I really enjoyed that,fascinating insight.

[@kentonevans]

Excellent analysis and presentation.

[@gablen23]

It's amazing how one of the best, and certainly the most successful, tournament player can be so lost in a cash game! It's like a completely different game.

[@simoneggler5184]

He is definitiv not the best pokerplayer. Why you never see him at the high roller? For example triton? 100k or 250k buy ins? He is playing the 10k or 25k tournaments. true. In these fields are not the best.

[@bankrollbilly]

He just tilts alot

[@stevenloube6784]

@@simoneggler5184 Eh, those high roller events are statistically a lot easier to win than the fields that Hellmuth plays. Yes the average player is better, but the tiny fields can allow things like what happened to Negreanu, blown out all summer (a lot of it run bad) and then win a 30 person field and talk about owning the world again! Those giant buys in are a bit incestuous in that the same players are all backed by the same people and they are just spreading around money. Yes, some are winners, some are losers, but they all are just trying to add $10 million to their tournament winnings while not actually making much, if any, money.

[@simoneggler5184]

@@stevenloube6784 when you are not good enough in the high roller events than you win statisticly these by around zero procent. The last triton main event (100k buy in) had way more then 100 entrys. Around like 140 entrys I think .. You will never see hellmuth in these events. There are also WSOP bracellet events that are high roller as well. 250k buy in for example. Hellmuth doesn't enter in these events aswell. I agree. he targets the smaller field WSOP events for bracellets. For example the H.O.R.S.E or dealer choice or stud or whatever. That does say actually alot about his skill level. He is more likely to add another bracellet to his all time record. I don't think by the way that negreanu (correct?) Is one of the best players. Good Players would be for example: Tan Xuan, Stephen Chidwick, Thimothy Adams or Fedor Holz.

[@mauriciolandos4712]

He's the opposite of me, I suck at both though, but I consider myself at least decent at cash games, where as in tournaments all I do is lose money.

[@geoffg6847]

I love this lex u are making us all better at the game. Thanks

[@jaccrazor]

Love the format. Would it make sense to mix in a couple of hands where you hide villain‘s hole cards? Gives a whole different perspective to a hand analysis imo.

[@spoder22]

awesome video but i would've liked to hear you talk more about the exploitative side in these hands. Regarding the KTo hand in particular - obviously the turn lead is bad from a logical and theoretical standpoint. But JR and Keating aren't pros, I don't think they're good enough to be thinking on a high level about Phil's range and how it doesn't contain strong hands. So I think that discussing theory and range construction isn't very relevant. Is there any merit to leading turn here just to set your own price to draw (or for other exploitative reasons)? I still think it's a bad play exploitatively, but would like to hear your thoughts

[@penpal222]

First time watcher! Love your analysis!

[@edjahh]

Hey Lex, thanks for the content! Small sidenote, when face cam in full screen the quality looks a bit iffy. Not in the smaller frame, just to let you know.

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm you might be right

[@issimi]

I would love to know what the board was in the hand, where Hellmuth folded AK preflop!

[@SoulfightPoker]

Lex you gotta make it to Hustler, that would be absolute insanity 😂 Lex v Keating 500bb deep. Thanks for the content my man

[@HomeStudioBasics]

Lex, fantastic analysis! Always used to see you on T.V. so it's quite strange watching you on KZbin now talking about hands. Great stuff. Just had quick question: You were talking about How we want our opponent to have missed fds on the river. Then you said, "If we make missed Fds available for our opponents that means we increase the amount of folds they have." I was a bit confused by this. Did you mean to say "we increase the amount of bluffs they have?"

[@dantonkull6491]

Dude Phil Hellmuth is not a professional poker player, he is just a brand ambassador at this point. Just no point commenting on him, he doesn’t care about the game.

[@benmeredith9984]

Congrats on the good score yesterday, amazing stream

[@c_c698]

Love the Lex Reflects videos! I do think it's important to note that Hellmuth did make Kmart whole after this. He apologized, paid Kevin for his lost travel funds and said they would meet up some time soon. Classy move by Phil after having a(n understandable) meltdown in the game. Keep it up with these awesome Reflects vids, Lex!

[@wwz1011]

excellent analysis. Helmuth should seek you out for coaching.

[@essambialy]

Love the new format

[@johnd5619]

echo tilt chamber is a perfect way to describe it!

[@AcesH1gh]

Gotta love the variance rollercoaster

[@yippypubb1942]

100% Fantastic watch!

[@alkjash]

I think its interesting that even if Hellmuth had A10 instead of K10 in that hand, it doesn't change that much. Turn hes either way ahead or way behind instead of drawing to nuts, and river, he's only beating the same bluffs (missed clubs) and losing to every value bet. Maybe he's beating some random 89 or QJ that villain decides to turn into a bluff but generally unlikely given play on earlier streets.

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

I mean AT is a lot better. I'm not really buying into the misread my hand thing for sure, but it's not something I've heavily researched.

[@tyroneshuz]

You were bound to run out of your own hands at some point. I love this series, and the new format is fine too. Find some other maniacs (like your past self) to reflect on like Tom Dwan and Fedor Holz.

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

Yeah there will be a lot to choose from!

[@daverogers4195]

Arent they 750bb deep in the hellmuth ak fold hand or is there straddle?

[@toubieonedahomie4220]

Yo Lex, gg lastnight!

[@matttaylor7846]

Dang, think I learned some good stuff ❤ awesome vid, Phil is the gaoat

[@ProjectGameVault]

The “I quit” at the end is the most immature thing I’ve seen from a poker professional 😂😂😂😂

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

It's actually one of the most mature things they can say to be honest :)

[@kevinyin2663]

Oh sir, search "Hellmuth" and watch some of his classics

[@samrizza8785]

​@@LexVeldhuisTV💯💯

[@beerus3695]

@@LexVeldhuisTV thats true but you can’t be the first to leave your homegame 😂

[@userac-xpg]

knowing when to quit is a crucial skill for successful poker players. You could be on tilt, outclassed, or sometimes it just isn't your night. There is always another game tomorrow.

[@StefanJacobs123]

"own echo tilt chamber" classic 😅

[@StrangerDanger604]

Way better commentary than Polk's channel

[@ggermm]

10:25 “echo-tilt chamber” 😂

[@ensomniiac]

New subscriber here Lex. Amazing content

[@suhas.7760]

"He closes down the walls in his sort of like own echo-tilt-chamber" 🤣😃👌says it all.

[@jasonkiselis2866]

Excellent Lex!

[@sabinoharriague4754]

Would be hilarious to do a "get hellmut money" teamup and Showcase it

[@tictacufo3326]

😂 I'm only 5min in, this is so good

[@killy2626]

It's good. Make more like this. Thank you.

[@shanebraund9987]

Phil not playing a lot of tournaments now. He has always been a losing cash game player.

[@Franciscasieri]

6:03 Keating has a set of Queens in an alternative Universe...

[@parkbahce100]

Lex 'the spot' Veldhuis :)

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

If you know you know

[@martindim7182]

Great content! I believe the K10 hand, going by what the commentator said and what He said, He might have misread His hand. He might've thought He had an Ace.

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

I'm not sure tbh

[@alexandruion7660]

Phil is all about small ball short stack poker. Folding AK vs JR and Keating is insane. It feels like he is waiting for the nuts to cooler these recreational players but that is a bad way of thinking. You have to get involved in pots..not play scared money.

[@NC7491]

On the AK hand Helmuth was 750BB deep vs the guy with TT and 1400BB deep vs Keating. Genuinely hard to play well at these stack depths. That's why Keating can VPIP a lot as well.

[@rossa7226]

It isn’t that hard to play tbh. Much harder but the basic summary is play more speculative hands pre and probable call a lot more than raising without the nuts

[@jppagetoo]

@@rossa7226 Harder to play? Yes and no. It harder to play if you can't take a wide variance. This deep stacked you are going to be up and down huge amounts. It's still the same game, make reads and play smart. Phil tilts way too easily with big losses, that is why he struggles in cash games so much. Eric Hicks is a good deep stack cash player, Phil was not.

[@rossa7226]

@@jppagetoo yeah I agree, it’s harder to play if you aren’t good at cash games and don’t understand how the amount of bbs effective affects relative hand strength etc. but it’s also why garrett etc crush them because it’s easier to leverage people who cap their ranges pre flop.

[@JulioSilva-bt1vh]

when will we see you in the hustler Lex ? Brazil love you broo

[@devanishant]

I object to the title. Phil told me that the hand he played against me was the worst hand he ever played. It was a 2/5/10/20/40/80 pot limit hold'em game at Binions. Phil was the 20 blind and raised. I woke up with AA in the 80 seat and re-raised. He was all in on fourth street. Never did show his hand.

[@larsrademaker576]

Great video again! Do I sense that you like that he lost so much :P

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

Nahhh I actually think he played some of these spots quite well also. I mean I'd rather see someone else at the table win than him, if I had to choose..

[@MrAgmoore]

He got away from a set of Queens. A lot of people would go broke with overpairs.

[@larsrademaker576]

@@MrAgmoore true!

[@simondaughtry4619]

Phil plays textbook "I have a lot to lose" poker.... He plays like Jen Tilly. I'd take Jen Tilly over him in this game. Phil has serious emotional obstacles with high end cash games....How did his game get so bad? He is drastically immature.

[@T-roc57]

The KK at the end was a weird hand & spot but not on the river...lol the other 2 kings are beating him nvm any other diamond.

[@LexVeldhuisTV]

true but still. Relatively tough spot

[@ludocostag]

Hellmuth is probably the player with the highest disparity in quality between tournaments and cash games. In the history of the game.

[@userac-xpg]

that's because in tournaments you rarely have a stack more than 20-30 BBs

[@jorism]

Lex Reflects is Flex

[@paularized1]

Phil is the greatest player of all time. Oh wait, wrong Phil. My bad.

[@Mcpokapoka]

Yes sir you got the gift for doing that..👏👏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@sonicboomers122]

4:25 is the ultimate display of why Phil gets made fun of so much. It's really not just the blow-ups, that does not help, it the excessive pridefulness and I am smart than you mentality when really, no he isn't. He just folded the AK he could have got off with being told it was a bad move, but the point fuck all the way off. When you have years of similar or worst mistakes, it makes some people question the value of WSOP bracelets, which is not fair. Probably the greatest moment for anyone to watch is during the Hustler the Casino Streamer live stream with Ludwig and Mr. Beast. Towards the end, Phil has to call a All-in Pre-Flop AJs against a short stack, and Mr.Beast and a bunch of the streamers are chanting at him to not be a pussy and Call. He folds the best hand preflop and 5 bricks run out.

[@pelimies1818]

That felt goooood!

[@jack42011]

ODD. Helmuth generally buys in Short at these games, yeah, definitely uncomfortable with all that money in front of him, he knows he runs horribly at the cash table, mostly because of his lack of aggression...

[@reppingl]

You’d think Phil’s family or financial advisor would’ve forced him to stop playing these stakes at this point. He’s been bad at them for the entire time I’ve been watching poker, which is close to 15 years

[@user-sk4wf3ve6z]

Don't think it's his own money to be honest,he has a lot of sponsorships who get advertising from his blow ups on TV because millions of people watch them.if you notice hes always covered in names of casinos or tournaments.its not a coincidence and I'd say he gets put into these games just for publicity when he tilts

[@BigJohnFury400]

He is not the player he once was. He is now a borderline fish. And yes I am not a pro myself bla bla but i'm talking about what he perceives himself to be and the reality. He is absolutely atrocious at these levels nowadays. I dont think anybody is in anyway afraid to play him.

[@oldnew7478]

He NEVER was good in cash games, only good in defeating noobs at poker tournaments. He gets invited to cash games for that very reason!

[@MrNeilsmallwood]

​@@oldnew7478 exactly that. He knows exactly how to do well in $500-$5k buy in tournaments which make up the majority of the WSOP schedule. He does very well in those and has made a living from it. He just doesn't play cash games well.

[@warrenlee7064]

@@oldnew7478 yes, he only got invited to feed the real players

[@joshuag6057]

The KT vs QQ might be the worst I’ve ever seen someone play a hand at any stakes. Jesus what even was that

[@DJSARG3NT]

Great video

[@MrMarco855]

Phil loses more money because he made a bad call on the river, then he feels compelled to call the guy 'crazy'. Then he lies about his hand, claiming that he had aces. Lex was trying to understand why Phil would lie about his hand, I believe that it's all about his image. Calling with Aces is one notch better, or less humiliating, then calling with Kings. I think that's all it amounts to. His ego is such that when he makes a bad play he doesn't want anyone to know how bad it was, so he'll lie trying to save face. I remember when Phil's nemesis Tony G. lied to him once. He told Phil that he hadn't looked at his cards. Tony made a bet, Phil was convinced that Tony hadn't looked at his cards so he went all in. Tony turned over Ace/King, Phil had Ace/Jack. It was apparent right away that Tony lied. Phil objected, mildly at first but it got pretty ugly before it was over. The others at the table and the commentators agreed that it was a dirty thing that Tony G. did to Phil. I disagree. Phil was livid that Tony lied, but I see Phil lie all the time. If you watch Phil long enough, at least I got the sense that he's cheap, a tightwad. He's very willing to accept an advantage if another player were to give it, but since Tony lied obviously it was to Tony's advantage. If you can't accept that Tony would lie in that situation, then you shouldn't bet or raise based upon that information. In effect, Phil enjoys having an advantage but if the other possibility occurs, that he was lied to, then he considers that to be a crime. There were many other situations that make me think that Phil is a cheapskate, not the least of which is buying in to a game for 10K or 20K, when the others at the table are in for a minimum of 100k. It's not automatic that this strategy works, but I think it's a clear indication that Phil's trying to win big without taking the same risk as the others. I don't know why they don't stop a player from doing that by establishing an appropriate buy in minimum. One question; why do the other players let Phil get away with calling them names, particularly when it's a new guy or one that Phil doesn't know very well? I couldn't accept it very easily; I'd probably respond in kind. Nobody sits down to play and wants to be insulted or to get into a nasty argument. In this case, the guy did nothing to Phil, no slow-rolling, no bragging about taking his money, just nothing. Phil can't leave like a gentleman, he's not satisfied until he throws down a couple of insults. I think that's also a result of his huge ego, because if he fires off an insult or two, in his mind that somehow makes the guy look bad and therefore Phil doesn't look quite as bad. That doesn't make sense to me. Doesn't Phil realize that people have feelings?