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During the final hand of the latest No Gamble, No Future! episode the two arguably most famous poker players on the planet, Daniel Negreanu and Phil Hellmuth, got tangled up in a cash hand with $83,600 in the pot.
The PokerGo commentator perfectly predicted all of the chips going in the middle once the player’s hole cards were revealed. Phil Hellmuth aka ‘The Poker Brat’ looked down to find pocket rockets while Daniel Negreanu aka ‘Kid Poker’ found himself sitting with AdQd.
Hellmuth actually slow played his aces and there was only $7,000 in the pot prior to the flop. Then the flop came out with two diamonds which meant immediate action for Daniel’s 4 cards to a flush and two over cards. Here is how it all played out on the final hand of No Gamble, No Future!
They ran the board twice, as is customary in these high stakes poker games. Both times the Turn and River came out Club-Heart and Daniel Negreanu never got the diamond he needed to complete his flush.
When it was all said and done, Phil Hellmuth won a massive pot to end the night *and* he got up to give a classic Phil Hellmuth speech in front of the camera.
Hellmuth starts with the rhetorical question ‘am I the best player in the world?’ before rattling off an endless list of his poker accomplishments. He is, without debate, the best World Series of Poker player of all-time. On top of that, Phil Hellmuth is arguably the best poker tournament player in the world.
But in terms of the ‘Best Poker Player in the World’ that gets subjective because cash games are very different than live tournaments, as everyone is well aware, and there isn’t a plethora of databases to track cash game success and winnings like there is with tournaments.
It is easy to hop on the WSOP website or the HendonMob database and look up who has won the most money in poker tournaments, the most bracelets, or the highest cashing percentage. But to really get a sense of who the best cash game poker player of all time is you’d have to ask those in the known and go off their word, not verifiable results.