Busting Phil Hellmuth -- Day 2, continued

My table is very tough to begin with, and then Phil Hellmuth is moved to Seat 1. He immediately starts to berate the table, telling us all how bad we play. He asks what we did after making the money last night, and then volunteers that he had to write a 3000 word article for USA today that would be read by 4 million readers. I offer to make an over-under wager on how many times the article had the word "I" in it--Phil being a notorious egomaniac--and the whole table, incuding Phil, guffaws. I actually have a soft spot for Phil--he shows every hand he plays to impress us with his style and he puts half the table on tilt. But short-stacked Phil is playing weirdly tonight. He limps on the button with AK and then whines when the flop is 9 8 5. The internet players have no respect for Phil and criticize his strategy mercilessly. Phil's strength is his ability to read players. He figures out the Morgan has A A because Morgan pretends to look around nervously before re-raising an all-in player. Ray Henson, perhaps the other best player at our table is not so astute and moves all-in with K K, losing 2/3 of his stack.

Despite Phil's good reads, his is steadily whittled to the point where he has only 8000 left and must post a $3000 big blind. Everyone folds to me and I find 10 10 on the button and raise. Phil has Q J and we have a race situation (I am about 55% to win.) The board comes all small cards and Phil is broke. He is a true gentleman and shakes everyone's hand before leaving.