I checked. He delisted those episodes. I found this one with some Hellmuth commentary:
but he is very measured here. There was a podcast before that where he dunks on Hellmuth, but I can’t find it anywhere. The best I could find was this clip.
I mean it’s not like it’s a clovis hot take. That’s the standard take within the poker industry, at least to certain extent.
Not quite sure why people rather believe there’s a guy who has not done any technical study for the past 30 years, has little understanding of basic and not basic math concepts, has never released a single piece of coherent strategy content (including even a hand analysis during a broadcast or anything), there isn’t a single person who discussed strategy with him (or came forward with), almost no serious pro has ever praised his game (other than a single Galfond tweet i’ll get to later) has somehow found some miraculous exploitable strategy no one else had over the explanation that he is on a fairly extreme case of good luck, which isn’t that statistically improbable.
Galfond did write up his HUSNG matches. I watched the seiver match and thought hellmuth style was pretty effective at times. But -
a) it’s an extremely specific format
b) other husngs regs, like bosquets, firmly disagreed with galfond
c) galfond used that post later as a joke when he made fun of phil’s tournament play vs foxen, so he didn’t take it that seriously.
I do think his whole act is super plus EV. He gets donated chips more than 99% of players because people want to bad beat him. That has to be a huge edge in big field mtts.
i have a friend who has 4 bracelet in the last decade and played probably under 5% of the amount of tournies phil played during that period.
no doubt he has impressive results, but so do a lot of others. that’s tournament life. variance is crazy and some people are bound to run extremely hot over a long period and some the opposite.