Hellmuth Out, Almost Not Even Fair
Phil "Poker Brat" Hellmuth nursed his short stack through most of the first couple of levels today. But his situation was precarious throughout -- made more so by the fact that he was sharing a table with Dani Stern, Ashton Griffin, and chip leader Tom Marchese who recently moved to Hellmuth's left.
Finally came a hand in which Hellmuth and Griffin exchanged a couple of raises to get the last of Hellmuth's 25,000 in the middle. Hellmuth had 
and Griffin 
. The board went 
, and Hellmuth is out. Griffin is now up to 126,000.
"That's almost not even fair," said Hellmuth afterwards as Mike Matusow again wandered over from the next table. "Mike, I had the tens and he had the queens!"
"Tens don't beat queens," Matusow sagely observed.
The Mouth speaks the truth.