2013 National Heads-Up Poker Championship Episode 10

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presented by wsop.com back in 2005, phil hellmuth gave the

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tournament money leader Scott Seaver faces three-time winner of the bracelet, Mike The Mouth, Madison Scott. This is a tournament that many players believe they are destined to win. Why do you think you will do it? I've thought about it from the beginning. I've been playing very well.

I have been lucky. There is no reason for that to change. Mike, you said this is your tournament. Do you think you were still unstoppable? I am absolutely unstoppable like them. I used to say like the great Ivan Drago said, you're going to lose, good luck to both of you, I'm going to crush you and in the other semi-final is 13-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth, across the mat from the 2012 world poker tournament, player of the year joe sarok joe you've beaten some very tough players to get to this point what challenges does phil present um basically I don't know how he's going to play you know he's been on TV a lot but you know he's not going to play the same way every time, so I don't know what I'm going to do, well, where would I be to win this event?

We'll see how it plays out Joe, if you won this event, where would that be on your list of accomplishments? It would be among the best achievements. I mean, this has been the toughest course this tournament has ever had and it hasn't been easy. Phil. There is always a fine line between playing well and running well. How well are you playing? I'm playing. the upper end of my range as kids like to say well good luck to you both let's put the cards in the air and with that we say hello matt vasquezian along with ali najjad lots of excitement in the room as they go the semi-finals. going on, but I also felt some nervous energy, particularly from Joe Siroc.

It is his first time at this event. Hellmuth, however, is played every year except 2007. Where you, Joe, grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Albuquerque, yeah, I went to a very nice golf course. It's called Las Campanas down there, I haven't heard of it, but I don't play golf, it's okay, it's like a Nicholas designed course, Albuquerque is a fun place, yeah, Phil starts with five suited holds and the new Albuquerque fan calls 2000. 9-4 for Joe who checks on our first flop, six queen jack, a pair of clubs ruffing for both players, this is about who wants more rock checks with position.

Hellmuth will try it and Joe bends his hand. Phil draws the curtain. At Pade, you all don't notice the first person to say thank you when the dealers say that good luck takes all the luck. You guys always screw that up. I always get that thank you first. I always win. I mean, if Siever doesn't do it. put some of this knowledge in a fortune cookie somewhere he's missing a golden opportunity both suited players with diamonds mattiso with queen jack and our flop king two seven with no diamonds on the flop both check on the turn mataso pairs His jack quickly passes feeling disinterested in Mike can't blame him for wanting to pick up what he thought was dead money in the River and stern pairs are four.

Both players check and Mike Madison takes the pot. His mouth has been pretty quiet up to this point in the event, but you wonder for how long. that's going to last sitting in front of scott thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you phil we both support you can you guess why I have a saying that I've always told little kids be careful what you wish for is an original queen 10 for phil here he calls and suited 6 two for joe joe checks we'll call joe the whip from now on so phil would flop it's eight nine four no hearts two over cards and a straight draw for phil as the action has been transferred to him and he checks behind the turn to phil now, but a straight shot to joe, you know, hellmuth checked on the flop.

He's been taking some pretty cautious lines on the hands he's been playing since the rock passed to Phil, who bets and will take him out and I wonder how long Hellmuth can get away with it before one of his opponents gets up and starts to get aggressive, so originally from Albuquerque he went to college or for three years. months, like a community college discovered internet poker right away, yeah, yeah, roommate abandoned the abandoned side, it worked, that's the cliff notes version, mate well, regardless of college pedigree, All players start this round with four hundred thousand in chips, the blinds are at two and four thousand giving a lot of play in the early stages Since its inception in 2005, this event has been exclusively no limit Texas hold'em three chips in play, including the yellow and the black, with a value of twenty-five thousand on the left in quotes the old generation the new generation on the right There is no doubt that it is new or old, this is the most difficult course we have seen at this event.

There are no easy paths to the semi-finals for any of these four. I don't know, I've seen enough Madison explosions in person to know. how many re-raises you probably still have nothing nothing I never have anything I just saw you blow up too many times in big tournaments right where you can taste the wind this is when you blow I did it this is the move where I have a chip leader uh in um uh mohegan sun with 46 left, it was like two to one chip leader and they called 39 places, guess where I ended up 44 45 40. yeah, I put it, I tried to think I bet the chip leader who had two aces, you know, really I think Scott Seaver is a good guy, but you wonder how much of what we think is wrapped up in friendship is actually pure competition coming out of him, passive-aggressive, eh, big right hand for Scott. ace 10 jack 10 suit for mike and the flop oh look at this flop ace king jack top pair for siever madison matches his jack both players with inside straight madison has bet 8,000. siever after checking calls the 8,000 becomes five of hearts quick check check to the river eight of spades good with madison having checked behind him on the turn seaford has to calculate that ace ten is good he bets 24,000. and madison misses well he lies down for micro he is embarrassed by that no, not really a Pretty big hand, yeah, good ending for me, I appropriately credited Scott for a king or ace.

I think you would have me. I think I do too. The early stages of the semi-finals here at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, the

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is. presented by wsop.com winning a second NBC heads-up championship eight years after the first would be great, it means everything is a great indication, this would definitely be my greatest live achievement, this tournament has 64 of the strongest players in the world world, it would be an honor to win back when Phil Hellmuth won this event in 2005. His opponent, Joe Sorak, was not allowed to legally enter a casino.

He didn't have any problems. He is young. That's the point, but he doesn't get caught up in the age differences. Jose Rock. He's beaten some tough opponents to reach the semi-finals and faces another here: 13-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth. Well, if this match were decided on his credentials alone, Matt Sarock would be nothing more than an afterthought. Over 17 million in career tournament winnings from him for hellmuth just under 2 million for sorak hellmuth has 95 world series caches sorak was just 16 years old. The key to Helmy's success so far has been opponents being willing to play his small-ball style and if Joe hopes to advance, he'll have to find it in himself to take the offensive in this game, something we frankly haven't seen much of him until this moment.

Okay, in the other semifinal, Mike Madison and Scott Seaver, two players who think a title is inevitable. Something, of course, has to give quickly. Thoughts on this, well Scott Seaver has a lot more heads-up experience than Mike and I'm not going to pick against him twice. Let's get Sieber on the right path blue final. Okay, we have this on the record officially. I got Helmuth Sieber in the final, yeah, which means if you're smart you'll back the truck back to Mataso and Sorak. There is an audience pole. I wonder when was the last time he wore the sports jacket.

How about, on your microphone? I mean, it's like new, so, it's pretty new, raise how much 10-8 for Madison, he'll run up to 8,000. Jack for a diamond catcher and he calls you, it seems like you want to see a lot of flops with me, maybe. you have to put 12,000 on it, you might have to, oh and a big flop, a straight for kills, so he always flops jacks, seaver checks and madison bets 8,000. I want to see a lot of turns, scott calls the turn, king of diamonds, madison makes a king. high straight but scott has a diamond drawn now sievers checked his diamond draw with the two jacks and madison is going to check behind him pairs of kings in the river on the board eight thousand eight thousand a blueberry is what I will be for you I thought that He's straight, sir yesterday huh, I was hoping the two would fall on the turn yeah, maybe I'd get you some cheese, you'd do it, I'd know you, I know you were all over that flop, well, too bad, turn credit for getting me cheese, I got most of the cheese I was going to get, you did it, Mike takes a small lead early in the match, you got some cheese and some cranberry on that last hand to improve, yeah, Jax just isn't a good hand when you face a thousand, you face a hundred. a thousand jacks just isn't that good for him damn it, I'm not going to bend Jack's head up, how's that?

I'm saying he had jacks, but I'm not going to double jacks. I'm the king fourth receiver, he raises to eight thousand folding jacks, microphone with jack. Nine calls, yeah, okay, you're a better player, so why would I follow you? And the flop jacks for kills, so middle pair for Siever Madison comes out for 8,000. I told you we and the turn and the three of a kind now for Mike, what? made the call right, he's definitely not going to fold now it's a bad card for siever with the top pair makes it less likely for mike to have a jack in his hand and of course king four looks much more attractive sixteen thousand to scott, he calls, here's a river river is a queen of spades check check check check players check check check and mike madison with a three of a kind takes the pot, I was hoping to get a little extra cheese from Scott at the end, there I'll put you like five sixes and if you had a pair, I know there's no way you're going to make a big bet at the end, this match can be summed up with an overload of confidence and a lot of that confidence comes from the microphone, the mouth, I hate to tell you. but I'm going to win this, anyone, I'll tell you, I'm probably one of the best, if not the best, short stack player or I come after players that I never give up on, you know, I never bow down and I just hold on concentrated.

I'm not going down, I'm like Rocky, just keep getting up, keep getting up, that's me, well first Madison was telling Julie that he was Ivan Drago, now it looks like he changed to become Rocky as we take a look at some of Mike's. event's social media mantra, as you can see he's almost out for a win, even summoning the spirit of Kelly Clarkson as part of his creed, you might have to run an iPod check line, there's still two one thousand and four thousand here, uh, next hand. Yeah, next time you said Siever also has his own version of what we've seen from Mike, where you hear him vocalize what he wants to happen right now, how many eight thousand and eight, this time Mike puts in a race to the eight thousand. with king nine, calls fast and stern, I get it and the flop, four two, seven, we're friends, check, check, okay, come on, you think someone's going to bet here, check, check, oh well, it becomes eight of swords, I am, but that's all.

You're going to rob me, Scott, that's 12,000. You've got to get the little guys to win the big one exactly exactly. Mike bends his hand. Confidence continues to rush in as he looks to continue his best streak here in national heads-up poker. Championship How long is too long to make a decision at the table? seven or eight minutes is too long six minutes two minutes is enough time to be at the poker table a little more than two minutes two minutes a couple of minutes is a really long time. I don't know for a minute. I think anything more than 30 seconds shouldn't take more than 30 seconds. 20 seconds.

Less than 10 seconds. If it's for a total decision, you give people a little more freedom. What bothers me is when a player takes a minute to make each decision it is sometimes unbearable, well if it were up to me we would have a shot clock in poker, a shot clock with electric light bulbs that allow people to shock them. I'm a fast talker and quick thinker, so a shot clock would be an advantage for me. For my part, I would never call it a watch because it is very important to my image to be seen as a good person.

I think there should be a shot clock. It took me four or five minutes to decide. the hand, which I think is too long, but in general poker should move a little moreQuick, time is running out on this tournament next week at 2 p.m. on NBC, it's the finals inside the poker room at Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas. blind to three and six thousand between phil hellmuth and joe sarah good point ace king for helmuth will raise to fifteen thousand lord with hearts ten joe raises to 46,000 I'm going to raise well this is a different look at In this match we went from weak pots to now a bet of four, 75 more at one hundred and twenty-one thousand pots being prepared at our featured table.

Sorak would be wise to just take the loss and he actually has a good hand, Phil Ace King I'm sure wow. no perry but you didn't have a pair yeah that's a lot for me with the ace king you're right I was scared to death well hell hitting soraka look at the big blob trying to buy a respectable table image How am I? I only make 70,000. I feel like I should be up like 200. You've won every hand, that's pretty outrageous, that's amazing, you've made me top Tripp's top hair twice, at least, at least that one. Number of times.

He crushed me in every way possible, but we're basically even. Scott is getting cut, that's good news for me, it's six thousand three and six thousand blinds. He's the one who was used to running well and resumed king up for him on the flop. checks and now mattison makes a beat, can't check again after showing you what he had last time, steven gets the best flush draw on the turn that just doesn't work and bets 11,000. oh so you're saying mike calls seven this time is the only way for him to make the best hand and it's a six, seven o'clock, that's dead rivers, seven o'clock, seven, my age, Jack just got smoked here, but I mean, sometimes You just have to try it anyway, you know?

What I mean is that sometimes you have to try 25. He bets 25,000 on Scott Madison folds Scott, that's 25,000. Siever feigning relief there's another robbery, another thief, guys, I don't know about you, we're betting here, so I thought it was better. that just trying to get in with ace king that's what those phil kids do for me that's gambling how are you going to exert an advantage? you're just trying to get in with ace king I'm not folding, I had a bad feeling, but it wasn't right, the crowd got into action, the scouting report is pretty aggressive, so I'm like scouting it, who would you scout? ?

Oh, I don't know, the scouts are Scott Mike, how are you doing? I was looking though there was a scouting report Scott Mike, how are you playing 15,000 sievert? I've never played and I didn't ask you. I think it's pretty accurate. No, no, Mike. I didn't ask you how he played. Wanted to. Wanted to. I found out I wanted to praise him, Sorak, while I was waiting for Phil to look at his hand as he ran to 14,000 with 9-4, you just volunteered it, Mike oh, bullets for Phil, well, if the ace king is betting, the aces certainly aren't They are engaged. sunglasses there is a protocol for playing aces mate 38 helmet three raises to 38,000. and joe folds his hand without biting not with nine fours offsuit at least sorak the 2012 world poker tour player of the year and has some nuances of his own oh What a joke, he says, I'm going to put on my neon glasses, his grandfather with your wraparound blades, that was the maximum headroom edition, I'll answer your old school, 5'4 for Phil, he calls the same suit , four twos for Joe, then he I'll check both players with the poor end of the deck and two pairs for Phil on the flop, so rock pairs are four.

He also has a draw in the wheel and passes. Hellmuth Bent Six Thousand Joe bets 18. Okay, I'll do it. call him and phil equals snap called what does that tell you? joe would have been happy to just win the pot right there now he's going to have to put helmuth in some kind of hand queen of clubs and a flush draw now for phil well it looks like soraka he's going to try to represent the flush here while looking for chips 29,000 is the bet you are milking me good boy you are milking me good for 29 phil calls now soraka has built a pot of over a hundred thousand is she going to do it? close and give up or he's going to shoot a third barrel there's your answer sixty nine thousand I call phil calls 69 and he takes a big pot two pairs for phil hellmuth beats a pair of joe syrah sorak couldn't I figured he was going to win the pot when he put his hand face up at the end.

There, a big flop for Phil Hellmuth leads to a big stack raise for him. The brat is inching closer to the second finals appearance of his career. Welcome back to the national heads. poker championship presented by wsop.com despite the high stakes the four remaining players are still having fun as they make their bet for a place in the final it's early but phil hellmuth and mike mataso are in the lead the semi-finals continue right now sieber and mataso are pretty close to a tie, but phil hellmuth has a three to one chip lead over joe sorak ali, how can phil close this out right?

I think if you don't rush, don't rush too much, the temptation to shut things down can often be your demise. and phil is someone who has demonstrated the ability to be patient, sit back and wait for the right opportunity to try to close the door call 4 000 with suda queen 4 king 8 of another suit for joe and I can tell you from experience that being on the other end Watching someone who is able to demonstrate that kind of discipline is incredibly frustrating because all you're asking for is the opportunity to win a big pot to try to get back into things when your opponent doesn't give it to you, it's maddening. a 16,000 raise for phil, the call he makes and this could be a little bit the kind of opportunity that we know sorak wants is to play these bigger pots and have hellmuth sitting in hands as queen four suited frey ace two in the flop a straight draw for phil twenty thousand joe leads twenty thousand and phil fultz doesn't want to call with the wheel draw and be left hanging on the a side board.

I didn't feel like you were super strong there, I limped off with another reasonable hand, yeah, it looks like you thought about raising, I was thinking about raising, well who knows how much of that is true, but this is poker, there's no obligation to tell the truth , eight two for Phil as he screws that up and watch the pendulum swing. has gained momentum in sirock corner now you know joe sarock may seem comfortable at the table now, but his well traveled lifestyle put him in an awkward position a few days ago he told this story via twitter he came home from a trip wrote his moped in the I was stopped on the highway I decided to leave the moped in a parking lot and Joe explains the rest.

I got a ticket for driving my moped on the highway. I just got back from the airport. I didn't know if there was another route. I was pretty sure. the moped wasn't allowed on the highway, but I don't know, I guess I felt lucky and now the moped isn't working, it's just sitting in a random parking lot. I didn't look at the ticket price. the amount is due in a few months you know I'll probably pay out of the profits here you know there's a lot about that story that would alarm most of us here's the good news I'm going to find the silver lining we know he'll never go to ruin your funds with transportation costs, I'll tell you if you tell me what we missed here trying to negotiate a full deal of cards, no doubt queen eight to joe phill with a chip advantage greater than two to one and again he bites his hands this He's the guy I was expecting lifting all the butts This was a guy I was expecting Now Helmuth has put up eight deuces and seven layups but Sorak doesn't know that he probably thinks he's intimidating him Well, Joe's path to the semi-finals was really difficult defending champion of the main event greg merson 2010 heads up champion huxseed who also has the most wins in this event bluff magazine player of the year dan smith and in the quarters defeated world series of poker heads up champion 2012 brian hastings if he can beat phil hellmuth, that will be the third main event champion he will have dispatched in his run to the final.

He's already amassed a hundred thousand dollars for the full effort of jack seven seventeen, raises to seventeen thousand queen 10 for joe and makes the call to hellmuth probably feeling that the order has been restored his pre-flop raise was honored and he didn't raise again on the flop all diamonds five seven two pair of sevens for phil flush draw for joe joe has passed to phil that's 20,000. and joe folds his hand discipline Joe folds, he doesn't want to have a diamond taken from him and then have to play the game of guessing at the Hellmuth event, that's two streets, the dance on center court continues, both players ran to get here, but right now it's Phil Hellmuth. with the advantage, something shady was going on at the top table actually back in las vegas, at caesar's palace, for the national head to head poker championship, mike mataso and scott seaver still locked in a very close showdown mike's path to the semi-final started with his good friend michael mizuraki madison switched gears against swedish internet phenom victor blum barry greenstein stood in the way of a quarter final berth and mike overtook him and in the quarters he defeated johnny world hennigan and there's michael the Grinder mizraki well, when tweets are only 140 characters long, I think you wouldn't spend 139 of them on exclamation points.

That's the last hand of four eights, not four eights, right. He feels ridiculous. Let's raise the blinds. We can raise the blinds enough. So we don't want to have to do it. Worry about that, suited, queen seven for Mike raises to 16,000, queen, trey for scott and he calls this time. It's Mike Matassa of the position. The flop king makes seven middle pair for Mike. Pretty ugly board for scott. scott busted mataso 14,000. oh it's okay to give up Siever at some point, well instead he'll raise to 36,000. He's just playing the odds 36 times Madison missed this flop it's just a continuation bet, but once you see Mike's call, there are possibilities.

Is he connected? Turn pairs of kings on the board. He's going to try to represent trips here and for Madison, queen seven becomes a little more attractive when the board pairs like this. Mike called. Here is the river and the river's ace of spades. Well, yes. there is a continuous flush and the ace could freeze things because a two or a seven no longer has a kicker problem, both players must pass and Mike Madison with two pair takes the pot, so you have it, you have it, it's a good one word. over here I like that you got it those are my favorite words in poker you got it who's funny mike what's he been doing he's been playing a lot of mixed games phil has expanded his main blinds up to six and twelve thousand here pocket deuces for hellmuth pays ten nine by sorak those shadows make me wonder whether or not he's enjoying phil in 3d and he raises to 36,000. so he's back to his old tricks, you know the way he plays poker and the way he behaves in the game . the table doesn't really match, you'd think it would just be passive and relaxed, but that's not the case.

I'm on the case and Phil is going to put Joe in hell. He smells like a rat to me. Phil takes that pot, but if it wasn't for a lucky ace, he may not be here at all, here's how he outplayed his first-round opponent, hall of famer mike sexton, justin smith bluffed his last chips, putting phil in the money, a marathon match against david sands moved phil to the quarters where he overcame the dangerous Eugene match and when you look at those four opponents, that really is a great introduction heading into the semi-finals and potentially the final, not that there has been any easy road in this event, but those are the types of opponents. that really tests your medal, especially doc sands, he's an incredibly difficult opponent to train helmuth 24. he's counting a raise to 24,000. jack six suited for joe oh, everything's going well, I haven't lost to him yet this hand, phil folds, i haven't lost with that hand yet, a small 24k gift for sorak, well joe gets some chips back, but AC DC used to sing.

There is a long way to go to the top. There is still a big lead for Phil Hellman in the 2013 National Heads-Up. The Poker Championship presented by worldseriesofpoker.com is presented by Caesar's Palace Las Vegas. A routinely spectacular experience inside Caesar's Palace. It's the 2013 national heads-up poker championship. Phil Hellmuth and Mike Madison represent the old school and for Madison only Scott Seaver is on the path to a final birth seaver began his heads-up career in this event with a win over will field then defeated another newcomer and kyle julius former heads up finalist vanessa russo was next to fall and reach the semi-finals siever I beat heads up specialist Daniel Jungle Mancates.

I was pleasantly surprised by Siever. He seems so comfortable in every one of his games. He is sociable and outgoing that he almost diverts his opponent's attention from the task at hand. He sometimes has sevens in hand. Madison's ace king certainly isn't going to divert Mike's attention from that hand. He now he comes. Mike raises again to 59,000. I'm all in. Scott moves all in and Mataso quickly calls. He is the king. We are turning. Good luck, thank you. I have the three percent advantage everythingWhat I need is enough, does it suit you? It's scott seaver who's at risk this is happening it's my time buddy it doesn't make a difference i agree it's your time to get out of scott seaver's tournament life on the line with pocket sevens against mike madison's ace king oh my god, it's not mike let me tell you what you're going to do yeah you don't have to do it that's fine and meanwhile a developing situation between phil hellmuth and joe siroc hellmuth has put soraka all in and joe just called and that's much longer than soraka is supposed to stay in this pot with queen jack suited, you don't see me worried, we'll get back to that first, the showdown between siever and mataso, let's take a look and queen five on the flop. fantastic queen to me, siever is right, don't worry, I don't do results, guiding six outs for madison, that wasn't one of them, she ate a heart, that would be nice, they should let you squeeze it, at least you know that card brought something more outs Grinder, shouldn't they let you squeeze the river?

Whoever is behind, yes, yes, exactly, whoever is behind, you have to squeeze the river. Scott needs to fade an ace, a king or an eight, three, thirty-eight rivers with ten of diamonds and Scott Seaver has it. he doubled down on leadership things that just happened happened to the best one two three twenty three thirty eight oh that was my moment I guess I was wrong yeah he really did well we'll see if Madison can get rid of that in the meantime back at the main table. there's a flop between hellmuth and sorak queen jack of hearts versus ace jack of clubs the rock is already packed and the flops seven eight trains well he saw joe's little exhale he knows it's a long climb uphill he's fishing with the queen and phil has matched his ace on the turn but soraka got a flush draw it's never easy they always make you sweat now he's fishing his heart out let's go to the dealer nine outs for joe sorak to compete can he hit runner runner to double can't ten of clubs on the river and that means That Phil Hellmuth is going to return to the heads-up final.

A good fight could have just as easily been a heart. Yes I know. I wish I knew he had made boats. Yes, it was a lot to say, but if you win it. It's even a bad time to miscount your stack Mike Mataso singing even though he's low on stacks here these two are all in only this time Madison is at risk and by the way I thought the mouth wasn't going to come out on this one . no, this is not the mouth, this is the voice and the flop ace 10 king a pair of aces for the mouse start counting that uh 152 there buddy, I've seen this one before, let's move this here I don't care about the thing I don't care about them the spins on the turn, but the spins are the queen of diamonds madison has made broadway wait a minute.

Seaver can now only cut with a jack and the two of clubs from the river mike mataso has doubled aha a couple more Those and we will send you back home there young 152. Sure, he knocked down the top that is fucking locked where they belong . A couple more of those. I feel homeless sitting on the sidelines crying a little waiting for me. I know, let's talk to Julie. I'm here with Phil Hellmuth and Joe Sorock. Joe, you're heading home. What was it about Phil today that affected you? Nothing really affected me. You know, we're just playing our games.

Uh, you know, I made a couple of mistakes, what were those mistakes? uh well the main one because it just happened is on my mind uh I miscounted my stack a little bit and uh colin allen and queen high when I had an ace jack okay phil we move on. I congratulate you, what are your general thoughts on the match? I knew he was going to be dangerous, you know, I mean he's the World Poker Tour player of the year and I know he's got a lot of speed, so, but I thought he played. a really controlled game, very smart, and I'm not surprised, I'm just lucky that ace jackhand held his ground and can keep going, well you're moving on to the final, congratulations, Phil's competitor will come out of this match where scott seaver has a two to one chip advantage over mike madison with a six suit for scott, he calls ace king for mike who will raise to 37,000. 25k more for scott to call, call 37, he does it, he's going to be in trouble.

On this flop, he doesn't know it, but he doesn't want to see an ace unless he comes up with a six oh. He's in even bigger trouble. Now Mataso flops Aces and Kings and quickly checks. Both players check on the turn. Another king in a complete. pot through the mouth quickly bet 30,000 and seavers took one to cut the last ace his name is not scott called at the river grinder stretching to see a hundred thousand to scott who folds big fold mike big fold mike big fold, most importantly, the right crease, sometimes the lights and the moment can impact the sirock game with a decision he regrets and a result he regrets even more in the semi-finals against an opponent to be named later welcome back to caesar's palace phil hellmuth has made all the right moves at this year's event.

He is in the finals after eliminating Joe Sorak with that victory. Hellmuth now has the third-most wins in NBC heads-up history. Phil will face the winner of Scott Seaver and Mike Madison. the lead mic is in much better shape than he wants he lines up to eight and 16,000 here Scott with ace two will run to 32,000 eight suited layup for mike is good and madison re-raises to 75,000. the re-raise to A more favorable alternative to simply calling with one hand that week and it turned out that Mike Madison took the lead now. 20 grand isn't much, it depends on how you use it.

Queen eight suited here for Mike, he calls pocket shops for Scott 50. I raised him to 50,000. Quick call for mataso who already has 20 another 30 more certainly doesn't want to get used to playing 100,000 pots with queen eight suited suit, although the queen six flop is six queen mataso pairs your queen well unless of course you can get used to hitting flops like this and making the best hand. Interestingly, Scott Seaver took control of the betting from Madison and is now going to call the 40,000 that Mike bet that you weren't expecting. Check out this line from the man with two tens with three pre-flop bets, seven of spades on the turn, both players check and the river gives both players a full house with Mataso owning the bigger boat, Siever checks, Mike bets 100,000 Oh, and Scott. hate this, could the mouth be on the stone lantern? call call he calls and mike mataso takes a big pot, that's right baby, he will punish him now it's punishment time, the punishment time took him a couple of tries, but he understood the syntax of the word with punishment and mike mataso well in fact he extended his lead and in the process brought out a side of scott seaver that we had not yet seen in this event near the quiet side 40 260 the leader jack 10 for scott here and moved everything in the other matches this one matched my decision, okay, it matched my decisions, it matched enough with the ace 10 suited for madison when she said it was a big deal, but I'm really lucky with a jack 10, honey, right now, here's the flop, Seaver he will hit a jack to jump to the front.

Jack, he will do it, we have to tighten all the ends, he needs to fade a four or an ace to double up and take the lead, he is an ace, how much does Mike want to get this ace in the river? and Mike Madison goes to the finals, it's my time honey, yeah, take out Phil Hellmuth, yeah, always a pleasure, my name is good, you certainly don't need to ask if this moment means anything or not to Mike Madison. Wow, what a fun match Mataso's victory means. Two old friends will face each other for the championship. phil hellmuth seeks a second title while the mouth tries to show that it is his moment scott it seems that you have won every hand throughout this championship you were surprised to lose there in the end you are always surprised to lose but it has to happen sooner or later and Mike played very okay and that's how it feels, how do you feel like you played?

I feel like I played very well. I'm happy with how I play and these things that happen. He played very well. I'm so mentally exhausted. He played so well it was unbelievable. Well, you're far from done. He now he gets Phil to talk to us about what that matchup will be like. Well, I mean, I was hoping to have a really fun time, just have a fun time with him, but I'm so Scottish that it's rained on me. I mean, he put me through a tornado, but you know, I somehow fought back to lose that king ace.

I never gave up and I thought I played very well and yeah, let's see what happens. Now is the time to refocus because you have a lot ahead of you. up thank you gentlemen thank you always alan about you we're betting around here that's what I like to hear these things just happen you'll lose be careful what you wish for you've got it you're milking me good boy maybe I'll get it a little out of here good news for me good fight brings phil hellmuth next saturday on nbc a championship you won't want to miss for raleigh najib and julie donaldson matt vasquez saying see you later from caesar's palace las vegas to win this event again It would be amazing, amazing, I think I have a good chance this year.

I think it's my time. Will I go to the next game and lose? No, because it's my time. He's done it like that the last four or five times he's been deep. He calls me. I'm meant to win it, I know I'm going to win it and then it ends 12. You know, I texted him and said, listen, I just want you to know I'm going to be in the finals. I hope you're there because I'm going to destroy you and I've been blessed and fortunate to have some skills and some luck and have accomplished a lot.

It would be nice to have another NBC heads-up championship feather in my cap, yes it's in A Little Race, I'm going to rip that thing up, though I'll send it back where it belongs.