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PokerStars - Phil Hellmuth, the Poker Brat

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A 24-year-old kid with the dream to win all the Poker matches with the help of his brilliant math skills and his memory, he wanted to be one of the members in the list of top Poker players of the world started out as a world champion in the year 1989 defeating Johnny Chan. He’s none other than Phil Hellmuth . Source: Wikipedia Today he sits atop with his name on the 14th place in the list of top Poker experts, way ahead of Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey, and Johnny- the champ. In an interview Phil said, “I thought I was the best Texas Hold'em poker player in the world by far, I was doing things they'd never done before, using a different style and making small-size bluffs instead of bigger bluffs. I protected my stack. I'd be willing to risk 10% of my chips on any crazy gamble, but I always protected the 90% and put myself in amazing positions”. When he was competing with all the other players he realized that Chan used to go down and win 3-3 games in a row whi