Hellmuth Lays Down a Nine

Phill Hellmuth recently hopped into the field and has gotten off to a rough start.

In a recent hand, Oscar Johansson opened to 3,500 from the hijack and was three-bet to 7,000 by Hellmuth, who was in the small blind. Johansson called.

Both players drew one and then Hellmuth bet 15,000. Johansson responded by sliding a stack of t-5,000 denomination chips into the middle, which was enough to put Hellmuth all in for his last 25,500 behind.

Hellmuth tossed his arm into the air and said, "I made a really good hand."

Hellmuth rechecked his hole cards and tanked a while before eventually folded a ninety-seven face up.