Although Phil Hellmuth isn’t a member of the final table of the WSOP Main Event in November, he’s going to have a protégé hitting the felts.
Jeff Shulman, currently 4th with 19,580,000 chips, has enlisted the poker brat as a coach for the upcoming final table action. No matter what you think of Hellmuth’s antics, he’s obviously an accomplished player. With 75 in-the-money finishes through the years at WSOP events, Hellmuth also has 11 bracelets. That’s good for #1 in the industry.
Shulman thinks they have similar playing styles, and thinks he could use some pointers in short-handed play without drastically changing anything.
Don’t expect him to be a loud mouth, though. Shulman is usually a quiet player with little to say on the tables. Shulman finished in 7th place in 2000 and looks to do better than that this year. This is the 4th time he’s played at WSOP final table.
Do you think this will payoff for Shulman? If you’ve made it to the final table, you’ve got to be doing something correctly.
Tags: Poker Pop Culture, Tourneys, WSOP
