Phil Hellmuth is Out

He came, he saw but he didn’t conquer anything!

The Prince of Venice, the man with white magic flowing from his fingertips, the only man to float into the latter stages of the tournament in a Gondola, Phil Hellmuth, is out. And when his final swansong came, it was more of a bung than a bang.

Hellmuth opens the action for 1,700 in midfield, Giuseppe Cristaudo makes the call from the button and the chip leader Fernando Cimaglia made it a threesome from the big blind.

Flop: [8s] [6h] [2h]

Cimaglia checks, Hellmuth bets 4,000, Cristaudo folds and after eyeing the Hellmuth stack with pinpoint precision Cimaglia calls.

Turn: [7s]

Cimaglia checks, Hellmuth bets 8,000 and Cimaglia freezes. The chip leader literally does nothing for a few minutes when he eventually puts Hellmuth all-in. The legend fingers his 34,000 stack for at least a minute before eventually calling.

Cimaglia immediately taps the felt in approval of the Hellmuth call, before showing [Js] [8d] for top pair. Hellmuth gets up and turns over [8c] [5c] for top pair, but with a weaker kicker.

The river is the [Qh] and Hellmuth is out.

"I didn’t think you had much but…" Hellmuth said before trailing off.

Cimaglia is up to 160,000