He acted like he made a mistake and had meant to raise to 9,000. Negreanu raises to eleven times the big blind from the button - 45,000 with a big blind of 4,000 in the €50,000 Super High Roller during the 2013 EPT Barcelona. 'Negreanu looks to his rail with a tell-tale smile as he scoops the pot.' Gleefully shameless in revealing his Machiavellian trick, the anger built inside Hellmuth, seeping out after Tony’s triumphant joy at a safe board playing out by stating simply and sadly, “Oh, you lied.” Hellmuth, holding A ♠ J ♦, decided that was good enough to move in the rest, whereupon Tony G, like a clown peeling off his mask to reveal another, even more, flamboyantly-decorated clown mask underneath, declared the call and turned over A ♥ K ♥.

Tony G to Phil hellmuth: 'Of course I lied! It’s poker Phil – what do you think this is?' In the following hand of pot-limit hold'em, Tony G claimed to have re-potted Hellmuth's pot-sized open without having seen his cards. We love players going at each other and these two have been known to sit down at most tables just below boiling point. and Phil Hellmuth go together like water and oil, yet just like so many bitter rivalries in poker, their friction is our addiction. So while the following may not be the five 'worst' angles ever, they are certainly five examples of behaviors at the table that caused some uproar - and were caught on film. We did a video on the incident as well.Ĭontroversy❗ Get and thoughts on a possible angle in the #EPTBarcelona Main Event #- PokerStars LIVE shots have been taken for years, and some of the 'best' angles surely didn't make it to air.

Zhou - right down the lens of the camera - looks set to fold after much thought, complete with folding motions, but at the last minute. But we'll let you judge for yourself.ĭuring the hand, Nikolay Ponomarev made a standard three-bet with ace-king against the pocket sixes of Quan Zhou, his neighbor to the right. Just last month, the EPT Barcelona Main Event broadcast saw a little controversy mixed in, with many calling a hand that played out on the live stream an angle. Some anglers don't look to hide their malintent, while in other cases, the angler's deceptive intentions are made quite clear. Armenian Mike and the Rack of RegretĪngle shots, intentionally deceptive tactics used to take advantage of an opponent within the strict rules of the game, are as old as the game of poker itself.

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