shawn sheikhan

“Who do you think you’re playing with?”

Yeah, what DID they think? It’s Phil Hellmuth ladies and gentlemen, playing his best game on Poker After Dark during season 3 (episode 13). I saw the Poker Brat making two consecutive  great plays during ‘Hecklers week’. It all starts in the movie below after two minutes:

First Phil raises it up preflop with KQ off and his friend/enemy Sam Grizzle exactly does what Phil was expecting him to do: to pick on him early in the tournament. Phil performs a little show and then moves in, forcing Sam to lay down his crappy Ace. Subsequently he raises it up again with AT and Shawn Sheikhan defends with A2. The Sheikh outflops Phil but makes his standard horrible play by just calling Phils continuation bet with obviously the best hand. On the river, Phil is right again: he only needed a quick glance from Sheikhan to know he was going to get called by the worst hand because Phil’s bet would be perfectly disguised as a bluff. That’s why he has 11 bracelets.