Shooting Star Phil Hellmuth Eliminated

Shooting Star Phil Hellmuth (left) gets his stack into the middle of a [9s7h6c] flop with [9d8c] against the [As8h] of Matt O’Donnell (right). The [Ad] hits the turn, though, to give O’Donnell the lead with a pair of aces. The [Js] river is no help to Hellmuth, ending his Day 1a.

Since Hellmuth is a Shooting Star, he autographs an "I Busted Phil Hellmuth" t-shirt for O’Donnell, who also receives the $2,500 bounty prize.

Matt O’Donnell  –  65,000  (130 bb)
Phil Hellmuth  –  Eliminated

Photo (below): Phil Hellmuth tells his bad beat story to the WPT camera, or really, to anyone who will listen.