http://grantland.com/hollywood-prosp...phil-hellmuth/
Phil Hellmuth appeared on Brian Koppelman's (one of the writers of "Rounders") podcast recently and, despite veering off into insufferable name-dropping Phil territory from time to time, I thought it was a pretty interesting listen.
A few nuggets:
- Phil claims to have originated "small ball."
- Phil argues that all of the sophisticated math that the "Internet Kids" use can be learned in just a few hours.
- Phil basically claims that he was the inspiration for Mike McD
- Phil says that he was about to ink a huge sponsorship deal that fell through because of Black Friday (I'm guessing it wasn't a deal to reup with UB, so I figure that leaves Stars, Tilt, or maybe some site that would have been affiliated with Epic Poker?)
- He's never, NEVER cheated on his wife, but he wants you to know that he's had many opportunities to do so.
- Lest you think he's too clean cut, though, he has smoked weed #greenmagic