Phil Hellmuth wins the pot even s he loses the hand

Earlier Saturday, the # 1162170993 hand was distributed at Ultimate Bet. It featured Phil Hellmuth and another player by the name of DOUBLEBALLER.  However, at the end of periods, s Hellmuth is seen winning the pot even s he held the poorer of the two hands. Ultimate Bet has officially made State of incident which she is currently studying.
Earlier Saturday, the # 1162170993 hand was distributed at Ultimate Bet. It featured Phil Hellmuth and another player by the name of DOUBLEBALLER.  However, at the end of periods, s Hellmuth is seen winning the pot even s he held the poorer of the two hands. Ultimate Bet has officially made State of incident which she is currently studying.

It is worth noting that the software on the CEREUS n platform change had nothing to do with this problem. In his official blog, Paul Leggett, the official cameraman, mentions, "earlier today, we were put aware that our software had paid a losing hand rather than pay the strongest hand. We are currently examining the situation which is our first priority at the moment. C is the first incident of the kind that we met. »

Staff d Ultimate Bet adds qu it is currently being the situation in order to put the finger on the exact cause of the malfunction of the software. Hellmuth thus qu Annie Duke are associated with this poker room that, last Sunday, was holding his benefit tournament "Ante Up" for a work of charity in Africa. Hellmuth holds the record of 11 World Series of Poker bracelets.

TwoPlusTwo forum members were immediately posted the hand in question after the incident that began at 4:15 am (time of l is) Saturday morning. The table of $200 / $400 was witness to the hand played: Hellmuth was on the small blind with 10-2 of spades. DOUBLEBALLER had K - Q and the flop fell J-K-K with two hearts after the action has been capée preflop. On the flop, DOUBLEBALLER checked and Hellmuth is alla d an implementation of $200. DOUBLEBALLER revived it at $400. Hellmuth called recovery. C is the CEREUS software distributed the 2 of hearts on the turn. DOUBLEBALLER alla y d a $400, and Hellmuth bet raised to $800. DOUBLEBALLER raised more beautiful to $1,200 and Hellmuth paya.

At this stage, Hellmuth had a pair of two and his opponent was dominant with a set of Kings. The river gave a 9 of clubs and DOUBLEBALLER $400 qu Hellmuth bet called. Handmade historic L informs us that DOUBLEBALLER had K - Q, for a set of Kings and qu Hellmuth Mücka his cards. On the other hand, he won a pot of $5,599 instead of his hand mucker.

In the chat a bit later between these two adversaries, DOUBLEBALLER revealed that Ultimate Bet had credited his account in the amount of $2,300 for this error. However, the fact that Phil Hellmuth has been at the table had a much greater impact in the online community. The message of Leggett on the blog d Ultimate Bet, 17 hours after the incident, received 20 responses. It revealed that more d information would be given Sunday. However, at 2:00 pm (time of l is) this Sunday, yet no further information n had been given.

Ultimate Bet had been under the spotlight after the discovery of cheating scandal put in place by the genius and champion Russ HamiltonWSOP, which was associated to l company. Hamilton as well as other players were able to see the cards of the other players to high limits. This scandal has been the subject of l program 60 Minutes on CBS News television as well as the subject (d) presentation (d) an article in the Washington Post. Following this story, Ultimate Bet players have joined those of Absolute Poker forming the CEREUS network. Both sites are owned by Tokwiro and are regulated by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission Canadian.

One could read in an exchange between DOUBLEBALLER and Hellmuth in the chat of Ultimate Bet "I play U limit, right now and miracle U beat me."


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