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“Did you see how many final tables he called me with?” might be Phil Hellmuth ’s new cry to his wife after the 16-time WSOP champ went on a rant about the 2021 WSOP Player of the Year award… 1 is @WSOP “Player of the Year” losing its luster? POY has never been about “Cashes and min-cashes,” this is absurd! It’s about final tables and wins. Deeb has two final tables (1st, 5th) and roughly same points as Jake (5th, 3rd, 3rd, 2nd, 7th) and me (6th, 5th, 4th, 2nd, 1st) — phil_hellmuth (@phil_hellmuth) November 1, 2021 Hellmuth was clearly unhappy about the scoring system used to decide the title that Shaun Deeb won in 2018, with Daniel Negreanu a two-time winner and the Poker Brat himself never having lifted the accolade.
A second tweet explained his beef: “Another player has one Final Table (3rd in online tourn) and 2,000 pts! Who cares about 10th- and 14th- and 300th place?!? Who wrote @WSOP POY 2021 rules? It’s not right. POY isn’t about cashes! I’m calling on WSOP to make it right in 2022. We need new voices to be heard…”
Hellmuth landed his 16th career bracelet last month but despite this and his four other final tables, he currently sits only third in the 2021 standings, one spot ahead of Deeb but behind both Jake Schwartz and current leader, Anthony Zinno.
The debate over how much weight should be given to final tables, victories, or even podium placings as opposed to min-cashing the way Chris “Jesus” Ferguson did to lift the POY title in 2017 was a lively one.
Dan Zack offered up “Best ‘x’ number of finishes is the best solution to this. Just take the top 10 or so results for each player,” which Hellmuth agreed with, while Daniel Negreanu claimed: “This idea isn’t new. I’ve been clamoring for it for years. Top 12 finishes count. The rest discarded.”
Negreanu was famously pipped at the post in 2019 after a discrepancy was discovered by Russian poker journalist Alexander Elenskiy, leading to Australian Robert Campbell being awarded […]
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