The Hellmuth surname made noise on poker screens once again, but this time not just because of Phil. In episode 14 of Hellmuth’s Home Game, the youngest son of the seventeen-time WSOP champion, Nick Hellmuth
The show, broadcast by CBS Sports within the Poker Night in America format, proposes a different table: without voice-over narration, with all the attention focused on the chats, jokes, and personality clashes between the players. And there, in that relaxed but sharp environment, Nick appeared to sit alongside well-known names like Jennifer Tilly
Before the heavy action started, Phil Hellmuth
The debut couldn’t have had a better script.
In one of the most talked-about hands of the episode, Nick received 9 -9c-v, exactly the same hand with which Phil Hellmuth won the WSOP Main Event in 1989. He raised from the hijack, there were calls, and the action reached Phil in the straddle with A K. The father, amidst laughter and good drama, threw out a phrase very much in his style before re-raising big. Nick responded all-in. The rest folded, and the dream duel was set: Hellmuth vs. Hellmuth for a pot of US$6.850.
They ran the hand twice. In the first, Nick took half the pot. In the second, he took it all and left his father watching. “Elder abuse,” Pink joked, crowning one of the most entertaining moments of the episode.
Nick’s debut was not only symbolic. It was also profitable: he finished the session with US$12.500, a profit of US$7.500. Not bad for a first time on television. The dynasty, it seems, has a successor.
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