02-20-2010 15:49 UTC-12

Exeunt, Caesar

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As we were wandering through the back portion of the poker room, a colleague asked if Phil Hellmuth busted. We turned to his table and saw Danny Wong sitting in his seat. Naturally, this drew our curiosity.

According to Kathy Liebert, "Caesar" did indeed meet his untimely demise. "Phil had queens. He put Eric [Levesque] on aces. So he called," said Leibert. She added that Hellmuth called Daniel Negreanu over to the table before calling to tell Daniel, "I used to be able to make a good fold in this spot."

All of the chips went in on a ten-high flop. Hellmuth's pocket queens did not improve against Levesque's pocket aces. Once the river was down, the Poker Brat beat a hasty retreat out of the room.

Perhaps somewhat charitably (although with Hellmuth long departed it didn't matter much), Leibert told Levesque, "I would have called you with queens in that spot as well. Especially if I were him."

Tags: Eric Levesque Kathy Lieber Phil Hellmuth