| Event 71: $5,000 No Limit Hold'em |
| Winner | Phil Hellmuth |
| Runners | 452 |
| Paid | 68 |
| Final Table | 9 |
| Player | Position | Points |
| Phil Hellmuth | 1 | 25 |
| Matt Glantz | 6 | 8 |
| Griffin Benger | 15 | 1 |
| Koray Aldemir | 26 | 1 |
| Liv Boeree | 31 | 1 |
| Anthony Zinno | 37 | 1 |
| Cliff Josephy | 45 | 1 |
| Chris Ferguson | 53 | 1 |
| Selector | Points | | Selector | Points |
| Chris B | 26 | | Vince 2 | 25 |
| Del | 26 | | Craig 2 | 8 |
| English Tom 2 | 26 | | Barrie 1 | 2 |
| Irish Tom 2 | 26 | | Irish Tom 1 | 2 |
| John 1 | 26 | | Jo 1 | 2 |
| John 2 | 26 | | Paxo 1 | 2 |
| Nic 1 | 26 | | Chris H 2 | 1 |
| Richard | 26 | | Chris K | 1 |
| Tommy | 26 | | English Tom 1 | 1 |
| Aneurin | 25 | | Jake | 1 |
| Barrie 2 | 25 | | Joe | 1 |
| Brian | 25 | | Justin | 1 |
| Debbie | 25 | | Karen | 1 |
| Gareth | 25 | | Luca 2 | 1 |
| James 1 | 25 | | Simon L | 1 |
| Paul | 25 | | Stephen 1 | 1 |
| Rob | 25 | | Stuart | 1 |
| Stephen 2 | 25 | | | |
He's only gone and done it!
Phil Hellmuth holds the record for the most WSOP 2nd places (10), but he failed to extend his lead here. What is there to say about poker's Donald Trump that hasn't been said before? Well, he's humble now, so he tells us though, like Trump, when Phil tells us how humble he is, we know it's just a matter of time til he disproves his words.
As long as I have been interested in poker, I have been reading about how bad a player Hellmuth is. People had him written off as some out-of-date old-school plodder years ago. Then he would win another bracelet, they would come up with some rationalisation for it and write him off again - then he'd win another and so on. Even this week, I was reading the same old stuff about him, and then he goes and clocks up another one. I wish I was as bad as him.
Anyway, this was a massive result, with hundreds of points sloshing around, so how has it affected the points competition? 511 points were piled up from #71, vastly more than any other event but, amazingly, not one of the top 14 players scored more than 2 points, and most didn't get any. The highest-placed selector to score the 25 was 15th-placed Paul, almost 50 points behind the lead. The Hellmuth effect has been to move a lot of middle and lower-placed people up the table, but not affect the leaders at all. Of course, this result enables another big result to bring some previous also-rans into contention but, for now, they're still off the pace.
Phil 'Have I told you how humble I am' Hellmuth brought his traditional Brian Yates pose into play heads-up
