Hellmuth Spirals Out of the Main Event

After building his way up to nearly 500,000 earlier in the day, Phil Hellmuth let the young kids get the best of him. Hellmuth lost a few pots here and there and was down to under 100,000. He raised to 20,000 from the hijack and Viktor Kovachev three-bet to 57,000 out of the big blind. Hellmuth announced all-in for 64,000 and Kovachev called.

Hellmuth tabled but was dominated by Kovachev's . The board ran out and Hellmuth was unable to come from behind. He battled with Kovachev and Jan Mach throughout the day, spewing words at them everytime he lost a pot. Unfortunately, he was unable to turn up any white magic today, hitting the rail in 56th place.