If you were to go by youtube alone, you would think Phil has never won a hand of poker in his life hahaha. Super cool interview, really cool hearing about this side of Phil, seems like a pretty down to earth dude. A normal dude who went on to become a world class poker player. Respect to Phil!
I'm not particularly a Phil Hellmuth fan, but the way he opens up about his character and the history behind it so honestly, I find pretty strong actually.
@@coldblood92 He is an old skool player and absolute no fish. But i agree and also think that he will be crushed online @ low/mid stakes cash. But that said he was and is a good live tournament player and a legend.
Hey man! I want to say a very good THANK YOU Jonathon and Phil for pulling and putting this interview together. I already bought AND read completely Hellmuth's #POSITIVITY book and ready to jot down my own personal steps with actions.! THANK YOU very much for enlightening myself to a possible incredible life journey. Rob
Phil is an amazing person and a man who has not only won big prizes but is one of the guys that boosted the popularity of poker a few years ago. Thanks Jonathan and Phil for this great interview!
Phil knows wayyy more about gto strategy than other players give him credit for..you can't win like that (live OR online) with just pure "luck" or "white magic".. period!
I commented on this before, I played in his charity tournament, I Final Table it and they sent me to Vegas. I will say that he is one of the nicest, sweetest gentleman that you will ever meet.
I love this interview. One of my 2021 goals is to meet Phil and Jonathan at the 2021 WSOP. Both are great models for fulfilment in life as well as at poker. Phil is now an old-timer: I can't wait until he's old enough to play us in the Seniors and Superseniors... Love you guys.
Phil is a vary down to earth and has a good hart... Congratulations on your business life style... Poker can be good and can be bad and but for you poker has built great life... After seeing this and understanding who Phil is as a person and not who you see on TV or how the media makes him out to be I have a great respect for him as a poker player would love to have a position like his is standing like his in the poker world because he has truly made it to the top...
Listening to your questions and Phil's reasoning to his actions leads to better understanding behaviors of players and career choices. Been unemployed since last year and have saved all most enough to sign up to your premium coaching course. This interview is encouraging as you both talked about different people at any age preparing to reach for goals from the heart. Hope to develop skill and patience in the game of poker thru your coaching teams. Kathryn
Congrats Jonathan for the interview, it was really good. The thing I like about poker players is that they think about the question before they answered
Pretty impressed w PH after this interview, he obv has narcissistic traits but it is pretty clear he doesn’t have a narcissistic personality disorder. He is grandiose and arrogant but the fact he can admit that he seeks attention because he has low self esteem because of his upbringing, this self reflection and sincerity means he is definitely not disordered. Also, People feel good around Phil in social settings away from the table, with disordered narcissists people feel uncomfortable and that something isn’t right.
So cool to see this side of him... It’s reassuring that there are successful people with ADD too, I’m glad he shared that. However, from what I’ve read at least, it doesn’t always get better with age. Jonathan you had great questions, I’m looking forward to seeing Daniel’s. And to reading the books. Thanks, another great video!
Fwiw, I was told by a psychiatrist about 10 years ago that I have the worst ADD he has ever seen, but I tend to channel it mostly into beneficial things. I don't view it as a bad thing as long as I stay in line.
@@PokerCoaching No way! There are so many youtubers with ADD... I was rediagnosed in February, before that I thought it was my fault I wasn't trying hard enough. I don't view it as all bad but it can be draining, I'm learning to stay in line and use my hyper focus to my advantage. Resilience and grit is something people with ADHD share and I saw you post on IG that being an important trait for poker players too. I've been watching a channel called How to ADHD. She has an awesome video on ADHD and Emotional Dysregulation that I would like Phil to watch, the Poker Brat all makes sense now lol
Pretty honest interview about himself I like it I didn't hear any ego until he said that he was better at games and all his family and then now he's better at any new poker game that comes out he's a month ahead of everybody LOL and I use exploitive poker quite often at the casino I play at 2-5 and higher and it can work better than GTO sometimes against certain player types and that's what he does I still think he gets crushed in deep stack cash games but probably nobody plays a smaller stack as good as he does and this format against Daniel is perfect for his game he'll probably beat Daniel
In the early 80s I lived at the Morehouse Commune in SF. Everybody had to keep a want list. The when you get something you wanted, you just cross it off your list and you can add more at any time. Sometimes people came into your room and saw your list and gave you what you wanted, or offered to trade you one item on your list for one item on their list. Of course, this was people living in a house, 25 of them, and was supposed to be a supportive environment. (something you may not find in 2021)
I think... if Phil managed to Win the WSOP Main event again..he would refresh his Legend status. I know it is a lot to ask, but there is so many younger and also successful players in the field that it is easy to be a bit lost in the heap.... BUT then again, Helmut IS and will always BE a Legend.
It is no pure chance he has done this a hell of a lot in tournaments throughout his career. Most people get low stack and chuck it in, I have once come back with 1.5 big blinds and won a tournament, so never ever just give up. (obviously with 1.5 bb I did chuck it in at that point of course but rebuilt and went on and won!).
Phil Hellmuth is the TOM BRADY of the poker world! He wins on all levels for long periods of time. He is ten steps ahead of the rest and he continues to win in any arena he steps into. That is all...LOL
Finally... a POSITIVE video by someone on Phil! Thanks Jonathan! I'm so sick of seeing all the negative videos about Phil. I don't understand how Doyle gets all the respect in the world (he deserves it, by the way), but Phil, who plays a game more similar to Doyle than the new breed of players, does not. Just doesn't make sense to me.
Phil has given a lot to poker, and whether he is seen as the best of not, matters little. He also is entitled to a life outside of poker. People today often take the opposite viewpoint no matter what you believe just to throw it up in your face (The contrary generation). The point is, its up to you to own or not own what people say about you. There are many people with their own ideas that got respected later. It was interesting to learn more about PHil. Some of the trash talk I have seen in poker seems unfriendly, and trash talk really should not give you any advantage. You have to tune it out and stick to your plan. A lot of poker players are no more than poker players, and they have a narrow view of others. Phil has crossed over that point, and realizes there is more to life than poker people. Most gaming environments have too many egos, too much trash talk, and people making the wrong decisions in the thick of it. When you can follow the career of a famous person, say like Efren Reyes, you get the see their whole life roll out from the success of youth, to the golden years and what they do there. Phils story is still midstream. Maybe he should worry less about what he thinks he hears, and just follow through to where he knows he is going....... ( Hearingness, it explains how we hear things. For example, somebody could in fact hear they are good looking, when in fact they hear they are still an ugly dog. Be careful about how you interpret what you hear. And its not easy when you are hearing things every day. People should thank Phil for his (gift) contribution to poker, and leave it at that.
I'm starting to like him more and more. I just don't know how he wins with his strategies that are often really far from gto. He can't be lucky because in the long term there's no luck involved. He's probably just a gto robot that is programmed against gto players
JL: No, I'm not talking about YOU playing BJ, I'm talking about everyone else playing BJ with only 10K to their name. PH: Yep Yep. I'm getting there. Just let me talk about me for a bit and circle back to your question in about 5 mins. Love me some PH 🥰😆
You know, I admire what Phil has accomplished. Unfortunately Phil is the Rodney Dangerfield of poker for legitimate reasons. Respect isn't something that comes from how many bracelets you have.
When I first got into poker I thought hellmuth was an arrogant narcissist but nowadays I think he’s a likable arrogant narcissist. He’s great for poker
Phils berating an degrading these players puts them on permanent tilt Phil is very shrewd and knows exactly what he is doing. :People lie, numbers dont Floyd Mayweather
Hellmuth Mad Libs ;"The Internet guys___my reading skills____,my autobiography____.(Hand)$#@* this is so sick. Everytime I _____ this guy_____. See I'm a bad loser but you're a bad winner and thats worse." Lol but in all seriousness he's one of my poker heroes.
@@PokerCoaching Haha I wasn't being literal Jonathan, but thanks for the good luck wishes....I am sure you weren't being literal either? :) By the way, your poker lessons in the past have helped me a lot. I have had a sabbatical from poker, but when I was studying with you, I was winning and cashed 7 from 8 live tournaments and won one! The only non cash in that time was the actual bubble for a huge chip leading pot. So for anyone playing, they should listen to you and learn, all the best.
There's no argue - he won the most titles so he's the best in that area. Nowadays everybody tends to overcomplicate things. Who's the best soccer team in germany? The one with the best pass-to-goal-ratio or the one with the most titles!? And honestly for me it's the same in poker. When I started out knew NOTHING about equity, solvers and so on, just played by gut feeling. And won almost 50% cash games. Now the more I get into this scientific math stuff, the worse my results get. So I'll rip that shit out again and get in the mood. Think about it, if everyone plays the same style, follows the same rules - how is it gonna work out for you!?
Hellmuth is the man, everyone has been saying he’s behind the game for years, say he gets too emotional,they underestimate his ability and he crushes them 😂
to be more accurate, phil is the greatest wsop tournament player. NOT the greatest poker tournament player overall( i dont see him winning regularly six figure buy-in tournies).. and definitely NOT the greatest poker player. that said, he is the best wsop tournament player fo sho.
He admits to having very low self-esteem from childhood, which everyone knows because he feels the need to show off all the time, talk about himself and demean others. He needs to show others that he is a winner, he literally uses gold-rimmed glasses for that reason, and this sort of mental gap is kind of sad and annoying to me.
Jonathan.Little. A person loses all that he has gained when he ACTS "LIKE A TOTAL JERK" even if it's 1% of the time. If childhood issues effect you NOW that is NO EXCUSE. Much like Jimmy Conners "great tennis player" Let his passion turn him into a NOBODY. Bobby Fischer's greatness is much diminished by his later-in-life insanity. HELMUTH, GROW UP!!!!!!!!
I see it as very entertaining. Let's face it, who is it you want to watch in Poker after Dark or any tv tournament? Least he has got some appreciation now of WHY he reacts like he does sometimes. Many people never look at themselves and say xxx affected me. I think it is commended to own your self, admit your insecurities and what causes you to act in a certain way. But for me and so many possibly millions of poker fans, the blow up's are what makes PH so interesting, and him describing why he is like he is, for me is to be admired!
About Phil Helmuth. Have "WE" learned NOTHING? Look where the tollerance of "abnormal" childish behavoir has left the world in the last 4 years (and before). Nothing good can come of childish aberrant behavior. We do NOT tollerate it in ourselves.