Phil Hellmuth improved to 7-0 in his last seven PokerGo High Stakes Duel heads-up matchups with his win over Nick Wright on July 28. Hellmuth’s next High Stakes Duel matchup against Tom Dwan is scheduled for this Wednesday, August 25, and is one of the most highly-anticipated poker events of the year. Very few poker players have had success against Phil Hellmuth in the heads-up realm, but after a late-night clash at the Aria Resort & Casino on Friday night, a new name can be added to that list; Mr. Beast.
Yes, the Mr. Beast from YouTube. In one of the more interesting lineups that you will ever see assembled at a poker table, Phil Hellmuth tweeted out on Friday night that he had just finished filming a “Poker After Dark” session with Doyle Brunson, Texas senator Ted Cruz, and YouTube superstar Jimmy “Mr. Beast” Donaldson.
He also mentioned in another tweet that later in the evening, he would be playing a $10,000 heads-up matchup against Mr. Beast. Needless to say, Hellmuth likely thought he’d be making some easy money off of the poker amateur. But the heads-up match did not go according to plan. In Hellmuth’s first update, he reported that Mr. Beast had “just moved all in with 7-2!! And bluffed me out of my shoes!!”
Moments later, Hellmuth tweeted out that he would need a rebuy for another $10,000. Apparently Mr. Beast had called Hellmuth’s pre-flop raise to $1,400 with 10-9 and flopped a straight against Hellmuth’s 9-9 on an 8-7-6 flop. The next update didn’t go much better for Hellmuth as the 15-time WSOP bracelet winner recorded a video of his ace-king all-in against Mr. Beast’s 9-6 offsuit.
