Relive Phil Hellmuth's bubble boy 'pain' in latest No Limit episode

Update: The WSOP has pulled the No Limit series from YouTube after quotes were found to have been fabricated using AI.

In the latest episode of No Limit, the documentary team's cameras focus in on the build-up to the money bubble in the 2024 Super Main Event at the World Series of Poker Paradise and introduces audiences to an unexpected subject: Liv Boeree. 

In conversations with the series creator Dustin Iannotti, he made it clear that no matter the amount of planning and preparation done, there's always a luck factor in play when it comes to documentary filmmaking. Boeree's appearance in the series comes as part of that luck factor. While Boeree's presence comes as a highlight, the real gem of the episode comes at its close – an off-the-cuff interview with Phil Hellmuth, directly in the wake of his elimination on the stone bubble of the tournament. 

Boeree, center, was the sole female player to make it to the 2024 WSOP Paradise Super Main final table.

'This one's weird. It hurts' 

If you're in need of a reminder, Hellmuth was the last player eliminated from the tournament before the money – a role affectionately referred to in the poker world as the bubble boy. In the immediate aftermath, Hellmuth wasn't keen to stick around, but Iannotti and his crew chased down 'The Poker Brat' in the hallways to hear his thoughts on the beat. 

"This one's weird, it hurts. Then they're like, 'Oh, Phil, don't leave because there's three other all-ins.' So, if one of the other all-ins goes [out], at least I get $28,000," Hellmuth explains to the cameras. "Then I have to wait for that, I'm sitting on the stage. And then, of course, everybody's cheering – which, I don't blame them, $57,000 is a lot of money to a lot of people. It hurts me to not to cash, but I don't blame them for cheering. The whole thing is a little brutal." 

Phil Hellmuth bubbled the 2024 WSOP Paradise Super Main Event, and Iannotti's cameras were there to capture the moment.

In listening to him speak, it's clear that Hellmuth cares deeply about the competitive aspect of tournaments – he always wants to make the money, he always wants to make a deep run. After all his years in poker, it still hurts him to fall short of those goals. And yet, he searches for the silver lining in this failure. 

"I'm not losing sight of the fact that I'm so blessed," he says. "I try to find the positives always, but I am in pain... a little pain."