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Originally Posted by Greg (FossilMan)
There is some small chance that he's telling me the truth, and Phil got that phone call, and lied saying he had 77 when he really did have KK. We will never know for sure.
My bad, just watched this hand again. The board was K
J
4
J
. Tony D had J
T
, Hellmuth had 7
7
. Not sure why I always remembered that as trip tens as opposed to trip jacks. Mandela Effect, WSOP-style.
The single largest piece of evidence that there was at least some minor editing: in a wide shot as Tony D faces Hellmuth's turn 3-bet, Tony rechecks his hole cards. The telecast cuts to the lipstick camera. However, in the hole card view, we see Tony is holding a stack of about 15 chips in his right hand. In the wide shot, his hand is empty. In fact, at no point in the hand do we see Tony holding chips like that – it's only in the one lipstick shot.
Pretty cool that you got to ask Tony about this hand, though. Despite 441's work in the editing bay, his side sounds quite plausible. Hellmuth's side is weird, though. It doesn't seem like the way he would play 77 there. A smooth call with KK pre makes more sense, as it's in line with the trappy "you're gonna give me all of your chips" thing.
One other funny part of that hand: when Tony raises the turn, Hellmuth stands up as if he's about to go into his "I mean, come on... I mean, what is this... you give me this, you give him this" shtick. But instead, he sits down and quietly three-bets. This also strikes me as being consistent with Hellmuth having KK and now hoping Tony has a J.
Anyway, 'preciate the insight.