Phil Hellmuth Wins the Footrace

Phil Hellmuth has never lacked for chutzpah, nor for a high opinion of himself, but seeing as he keeps breaking records at the World Series of Poker we might just have to take him seriously.

Now that Phil has won the race to 11 bracelets, beating out contemporaries Johnny Chan and Doyle Brunson, he adds to his record breaking accomplishment of cashing 59 times at the WSOP.

His accomplishment took place in Event 15, $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em- here are the results:

1 Phil Hellmuth Jr. $637,254

2 Andy Philachack $394,594

3 Rick Fuller $247,518

4 Morgan Machina $161,425

5 Scott Clements $112,997

6 David Simon $82,506

7 Fabrice Soulier $64,570

8 Ut Nguyen $48,427

9 Taylor Douglas $38,025

And, as an extra bonus, here are the results from Event 16, the $2,500 H.O.R.S.E:

1 James Richburg $238,881

2 Walter Browne $131,445

3 Chris Bjorin $83,249

4 Tom Schneider $54,769

5 Ali Eslami $42,501

6 Robert Mizrachi $31,985

7 Herb Van Dyke $24,536

8 Harry Kazazian $17,964

9 Alexandra "Alex" Vuong $12,181