The finale of No Gamble, No Future hit the PokerGO airwaves on Tuesday, bringing viewers an action-packed ending to the show's seventh season – which included an expletive-laden rant from Phil Hellmuth in the wake of losing the final hand to Joe Stapleton.
In the hands prior to his outburst, however, the 'Poker Brat' was cobbling together a decent run. First, he picked off a bluff from Taylor 'Lightning' Wilson with the help of his 'Big Reveal' button before extracting value from Jennifer Tilly with quads.
Then, it all took a turn for the worse as he ran two pair into Tilly's straight and the countdown clock to a Hellmuthian flare-up began to tick.
Bleep button working overtime
"I'm even and I'm steamed," Hellmuth declared as the dealer went about their work. With the $100 double straddle in front of him, Hellmuth was looking for action and he got it as Nick Wright raised to $300 with 
. Stapleton looked down at 
in the big blind and opted to just call the $300 rather than put in another raise of his own.
Hellmuth peeled 
in the straddle and quickly bumped it up to $1,200.
"$1,200? And it's you? Snap call," Wright said as he discussed watches with Tilly. Stapleton made the call as well and the pot swelled to $3,700 as the dealer spread the 
flop.
In the face of a check from Stapleton, Hellmuth reached for chips as if to bet, but eventually verbalized a check of his own. Wright had to double check his cards and then checked as well to bring in the 
. Stapleton took the initiative on the turn, firing out a bet of $2,000. Hellmuth called instantly, but Wright fled the scene.
With $7,700 in the middle, the river 
didn't change much and Stapleton bet $2,500. Hellmuth didn't like it. As expletive after expletive tumbled out of his mouth, each carefully bleeped out by the PokerGO editing team, he took to his feet.
"I showed the ten-deuce so this time of course I have queens," Hellmuth said with a sigh as he slunk back into his chair.
"Alright, Stapes," he continued while flicking in a chip for a call.
The string of bleeped-out expletives resumed as Stapleton showed him the winner.
"Philly! Where's the big folds tonight?" asked Wright.
"Nick, shut the f**k up," Hellmuth replied. "You're not a pro so you don't know you don't needle a guy..."
"You don't have to be a pro to know that what I just did is shitty," Wright countered.
No Gamble, No Future airs Tuesday evenings at 8:00PM ET, exclusively on PokerGO.
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