Confusing Hellmuth
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Under the gun, Shawn Keller opened to 1,050, and he found calls from James Weekes, an unknown player, and Perry Friedman on the button. Action came to small blind Phil Hellmuth, and he stacked out a squeezy reraise to 6,050 total. That drew a quick fold from Keller, but Weekes was not deterred. He promptly moved all in for the low low price of 19,775 on top. That folded everyone back to Hellmuth and cued the table talk with dozens of spectators right on the rail next to him.
"Wow, what in the world does he have?!" Hellmuth wondered, his inner monologue not functioning again. Finally, he made the call to put Weekes at risk for his tournament life.
Weekes turned up 
, and Hellmuth angrily tabled 
. "That's a sick play, man," Keller said.
Hellmuth astutely noted, "Wow, I got it in with the worst hand."
The worst hand would stay the worst on a board of 
, and Weekes has doubled up close to 55,000.
Hellmuth is down to 19,000, and he took a few seconds for Twitter after the hand: Hit $50,000 in chips, then made a misstep for 19k w A-Q (vs A-K, he slow played), and lost 13k w top pair...still have 20k...