Brian Rast was the man who was there to stop him after a truly exceptional comeback heads up. Helmuth appeared to dominate the early stages of the heads up battle taking pot after pot and really impressing some of the spectators by switching gears and putting the pressure on Rast.
At one point Helmuth held 17m chips to Rast's 3m and the result looked inevitable. Luck was not on Helmuths side however as he got it in 3 times, each of them with a flush draw on the flop, and lost all three. Just like that, Rast was the proud owner of a new WSOP bracelet and $1.7m.
WSOP Player of the Year leader Ben Lamb continued his great run at the WSOP by making the final table. but has now been pushed off the top spot by Helmuth. What odds would you have gotten on him taking that title this year?
I think we have reached the stage where even I have to admit that Helmuth clearly has some skill to silence many of his doubters. If anyone else has finished second in three separate events this year we'd be praising them, so my hat goes off to Phil.
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