{"id":5919,"date":"2010-07-13T22:28:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T21:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=5919"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:11:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:11:55","slug":"phil-hellmuth-latest-entry-to-a-poker-tournament-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/phil-hellmuth-latest-entry-to-a-poker-tournament-in-history.html","title":{"rendered":"Phil Hellmuth: Latest entry to a poker tournament in history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5930\" title=\"Phil Hellmuth's WPT entrance\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/phil-hellmuths-wpt-entrance.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/phil-hellmuths-wpt-entrance.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/phil-hellmuths-wpt-entrance-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Day three action of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/bellagio-cup-vi-main-event-and-wpt-royal-flush-girls.html\">WPT Bellagio Cup<\/a> is underway. 353 players have registered for the Bellagio Cup this year, a big success! Last year less than 300 players played this $10,000 event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Very interesting fact about this WPT event is that the deadline for player registration has been extended through the 1st level of Day 3 (1:30pm Tuesday 13th July) to accomodate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wsop-main-event-live.html\">WSOP Main Event<\/a> bustouts.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\">Phil always late but surely not this late?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Phil Hellmuth announced yesterday via his Twitter account that he will be making his appearance at the last possible moment. This will make it the latest entry to a poker tournament in history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Accompanied by WPT\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/bellagio-cup-vi-main-event-and-wpt-royal-flush-girls.html\">Royal Flush Girls<\/a> the Poker Brat has entered the tournament over 48 hours after it first started and at the end of the 11th level!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Phil Hellmuth is always &#8220;fashionably late&#8221; to poker tournaments. He was two hours late when he won the world championship in 1989 and he&#8217;s come in late to every tournament since then.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He sat down with 40,000 chips and the blinds at 1,200\/2,400 at 1.30pm! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/tony-gs-open-letter-to-phil-hellmuth.html\">Phil Hellmuth<\/a> said &#8220;I am serious about winning!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Here is the full video of the late entrance:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\">Ivey, Negreanu, Durrr, Laak and PartyPoker qualifiers<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Some of the other big names playing the WPT Bellagio Cup:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Phil Ivey<\/li>\n<li>Tom Dwan<\/li>\n<li>Kathy Liebert<\/li>\n<li>Chris Ferguson<\/li>\n<li>Jimmy Fricke<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Negreanu<\/li>\n<li>Sandra Naujoks<\/li>\n<li>Phil Laak<\/li>\n<li>Shaun Deeb<\/li>\n<li>Allen Kessler<\/li>\n<li>Annette Obrestad<\/li>\n<li>Steven Van Zadelhoff<\/li>\n<li>Joe Hachem<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PartyPoker has sent 3 online qualifiers to this event as well:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Roy Wullschleger<\/li>\n<li>Phyllis Fields<\/li>\n<li>Jorn Walthaus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day three action of the WPT Bellagio Cup is underway. 353 players have registered for the Bellagio Cup this year, a big success! Last year less than 300 players played this $10,000 event. Very interesting fact about this WPT event is that the deadline for player registration has been extended through the 1st level of<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/phil-hellmuth-latest-entry-to-a-poker-tournament-in-history.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2182,300],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38348,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5919\/revisions\/38348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5919"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}