Re: The Nascarization of Poker
Hellmuth crashes
by Dan Michalski, Jul 8, 2007 | 11:25 pm
LAS VEGAS–We all know poker, or at least the WSOP, is going NASCAR. Well Phil Hellmuth was at a track somewhere today — about two hours ago — and he was supposedly driving a car up on a red carpet … which was all fine and dandy until he wrecked the $200,000 vehicle into a pole.
Well done, Philly boy! If it wasn’t for bad luck, you would never wreck high-performance automobiles! Supposedly ESPN has video footage that will be airing tonight.
UPDATE: Here’s what actually happened
Karridy says:
July 9th, 2007 at 1:56pm
Funny… I’ve always seen him as more of a train wreck kinda guy.
DanM says:
July 9th, 2007 at 4:44pm
It looks to me like he is blaming the pole. Like seriously, what kinda idiot pole plays like that?
donkey says:
July 9th, 2007 at 7:33pm
There goes “The Big Phil”. What a douchebag.
Garry says:
July 10th, 2007 at 9:37am
Looks like the definition of push to me.
Appears to still be in the throttle when he hit the pole.
J.E.H. says:
July 10th, 2007 at 10:15pm
I know he wants to be Number 1, but this is taking “pole position” too seriously.
Thank you! I’ll be here all week. Please tip your waitstaff…