Phil Hellmuth had to wait a bit for his new opponent for High Stakes Duel III, and it has now been announced that it would be Nick Wright of Fox Spo…
Phil Hellmuth had to wait a bit for his new opponent for High Stakes Duel III, and it has now been announced that it would be Nick Wright of Fox Spo…
Phil Hellmuth had to wait a bit for his new opponent for High Stakes Duel III, and it has now been announced that it would be Nick Wright of Fox Sports 1 to face Hellmuth in the $50.000 buy-in heads-up match.
An outspoken TV personality, and a recreational poker player, Nick Wright claimed he wasn’t taking on Hellmuth just for fun. “This isn’t fantasy camp,” he told viewers. “I’m not just going to hand Phil Hellmuth $50,000 so he can invest in a new Dogecoin. No, I’m doing it because I want to win.” However he knows the task facing him and is relying on Phil being thrown off his game playing an amateur.
“Phil has had massive success in this event playing against professionals who clearly think they’re better than him, but now he has to play an amateur who has no such delusions,” Wright stated. He added: “I am almost incalculably worse than Phil at all forms of poker, most notably this form that he may have mastered. I think that should work in my favor! It might actually throw him off! Phil and I have a bit of history, we’ve played a bit together… he thinks he’s picked up a number of physical tells of mine.”
Wright’s humorous nature was exposed in his follow-up: “Little does he know that I always had this match in mind, and I was just setting him up for the long con. Wait, is he going to read this? Damnit.”
The duo will face off at 5pm ET on July 28th in the PokerGO studios inside the Aria casino, with their first-round battle seeing stakes of $50k a piece on the table, the heads-up SNG format unchanged from Hellmuth’s previous battles.