Phil Hellmuth well-known as “the Poker Brat,” he is the regular participant of the WSOP events and has already had eleven golden bracelets for the tournaments. Hellmuth has decided his own game is over and as he has never tested his heads-up card skills before, he competes in causticity with Mike Thorpe and Alex Keating at the first and second tables correspondingly. There are some rumours that Helmut has not been able to finish the play with Keating, in the end he has demanded to talk with the Tournament Director, Jack Effel.

The scandal goes on into the Top 20, both of the poker players Helmut and Keating made something out of nothing and accused of favoritism. Very soon this feud attracted much attention, they were advised to behave correctly and to stop the quarrel, as the result the game had to be continued. This difficult situation certainly influenced much on the other players at the table. During the break Mike Thorpe meddled in the altercation, but it couldn’t be called the positive fact. Mike Thorpe was the first who left the game, but the next was his opponent Phil Hellmuth. But Alex Keating watched closely for the game and it was he who surpassed him. But Marc Naalden became the main winner of the Sunday tournament. He took the first place and got the bracelet and $190,770. It was the first WSOP victory for the Dutch poker pro, though it was the fourth time when he took part in the events of WSOP.