2009 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship

$20,000 Heads-up Championship
Day: 3
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Event Info

2009 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k♠7♥
Prize
$500,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$20,000
Entries
64

Wow! Hellmuth is Gone!

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A dejected Phil Hellmuth (foreground), moments after his stunning loss to Bertrand Grospellier (background, right)
A dejected Phil Hellmuth (foreground), moments after his stunning loss to Bertrand Grospellier (background, right)
A murmur rose through the gallery as Bertrand Grospellier and Phil Hellmuth got all of their chips in the middle preflop just five hands into their quarterfinal match! Grospellier had the slight chip edge and the preflop nuts, {A-Diamonds} {A-Spades}. Hellmuth could only shrug and look disappointed at being dealt an awful cooler when he turned over {Q-Hearts} {Q-Clubs}.

"Could you guys play longer? We've got a show to make!" asked NBC poker analyst Ali Nejad.

"I'll try to hit a queen and keep it going longer," replied Hellmuth.

Try as Hellmuth might to repeat the famous suck-out that Tom "durrrr" Dwan performed against him last year, it wasn't going to happen. The board ran out {10-Clubs} {8-Clubs} {3-Diamonds} {10-Spades} {2-Spades} to send Hellmuth to the rail. Grospellier is through to the semifinals in another lightning-fast quarterfinal match.

Tags: Bertrand GrospellierPhil Hellmuth