Phil Hellmuth

Everything Phil Hellmuth said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

ALL-IN Assertion Not checkable as stated

Hellmuth: Shayne Coplan created Polymarket after a bet involving David Friedberg

“Shane came up with the idea of starting Polymarket because of a bet that Friedberg had with Diego.”

Phil Hellmuth Nov 6, 2024 ▶ 58:39 2024 Election Night Livestream with the Besties!

ALL-IN Opinion

Hellmuth: Stu Ungar might have been the greatest poker player ever

“He might have been the greatest of all time.”

Phil Hellmuth Nov 29, 2025 ▶ 44:53 Live Poker Match!: The Besties Vs. Phil Hellmuth, Alan Keating, and Jason Koon

ALL-IN Disclosure

Hellmuth passed on buying 4 percent of Polymarket for $30,000

“All I did was send in my 30,000 and I would have had four percent.”

Phil Hellmuth Nov 6, 2024 ▶ 59:19 2024 Election Night Livestream with the Besties!

ALL-IN Assertion Supported

Hellmuth: Pollsters were miles off on the 2020 election

“But wow, the polls are, pollsters were miles off on this, and this is just amazing.”

Phil Hellmuth Nov 4, 2020 ▶ 7:15 E11: Election Night Special featuring Phil Hellmuth, Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner & more!

ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted

Phil Hellmuth: Donald Trump outworked Joe Biden in the 2020 election

“There's no doubt that he outworked Biden. I mean, this guy's going to seven rallies a day showing up with a ton of energy, and he has, you know, like him or not, he has a lot of charisma.”

Phil Hellmuth Nov 4, 2020 ▶ 53:57 E11: Election Night Special featuring Phil Hellmuth, Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner & more!

ALL-IN Assertion Not checkable as stated

Hellmuth: All-In Podcast brought at least 200,000 new players to poker

“At least a couple 100,000 people have come in because of these guys.”

Phil Hellmuth Nov 29, 2025 ▶ 13:46 Live Poker Match!: The Besties Vs. Phil Hellmuth, Alan Keating, and Jason Koon

ALL-IN Assertion Partly supported

Hellmuth: Stu Ungar simultaneously dominated backgammon, gin rummy, and Texas Hold'em

“At one point, he finished in the top four in the world backgammon championships, was the best gin player in the world, no one played him, and was the best Hold'em player in the world all at the same time.”

Phil Hellmuth Nov 29, 2025 ▶ 45:42 Live Poker Match!: The Besties Vs. Phil Hellmuth, Alan Keating, and Jason Koon

ALL-IN Opinion

Phil Hellmuth says Chamath Palihapitiya has the world's best poker game

“I'm gonna say that Chamath has the best poker game in the world.”

Phil Hellmuth Nov 29, 2025 ▶ 50:45 Live Poker Match!: The Besties Vs. Phil Hellmuth, Alan Keating, and Jason Koon

ALL-IN Assertion Supported

Hellmuth: Donald Trump is a 3-to-1 favorite in betting markets

“Right now, if you want to bet, Trump is a three to one favorite and there's been billions of dollars bet in England, Australia, all over the world. He's a three to one favorite.”

Phil Hellmuth Nov 4, 2020 ▶ 16:26 E11: Election Night Special featuring Phil Hellmuth, Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner & more!

ALL-IN Assertion Partly supported

Hellmuth: Jenny Just's Poker Power has educated 400,000 women in poker

“She's educated 400,000 women on how to play poker.”

Phil Hellmuth Nov 29, 2025 ▶ 12:05 Live Poker Match!: The Besties Vs. Phil Hellmuth, Alan Keating, and Jason Koon

ALL-IN Assertion Supported

Hellmuth: £368 million wagered on UK betting markets for 2020 election

“Three hundred and sixty-eight million pounds. Trump is now a three to 10 favorite.”

Phil Hellmuth Nov 4, 2020 ▶ 2:12 E11: Election Night Special featuring Phil Hellmuth, Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner & more!

ALL-IN Assertion Supported

Hellmuth: Betting markets favored Joe Biden for three straight months before election

“The betting odds, the markets were, have been in Biden's favor for three straight months.”

Phil Hellmuth Nov 4, 2020 ▶ 2:55 E11: Election Night Special featuring Phil Hellmuth, Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner & more!

The other half of the tape: Phil Hellmuth's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 219 times in 53 episodes across the shows. 4 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Jason Calacanis 102Chamath Palihapitiya 45David Friedberg 34David Sacks 32Alexandra Botez 4Nate Silver 1Brad Gerstner 1

Statements about Phil Hellmuth, by other people (4)

ALL-IN Insight

Chamath: Opponents must force Phil Hellmuth into two-street poker hands

“Phil will never play a three-street hand. So you have to reduce, you have to figure out the mechanics that gets him most of the chips in a two-street hand.”

Chamath Palihapitiya Nov 29, 2025 ▶ 10:10 Live Poker Match!: The Besties Vs. Phil Hellmuth, Alan Keating, and Jason Koon

ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted

Botez: I won at least $200,000 from Phil Hellmuth in poker

“At least a couple 100,000.”

Alexandra Botez Oct 2, 2023 ▶ 31:38 All-In Summit: Alexandra Botez takes on the Besties in a 1v4 simultaneous chess match

ALL-IN Assertion Partly supported

Calacanis: Fans crowdfunded $2,000 to replace Phil Hellmuth's fraying tracksuit

“Help fund a new tracksuit for Phil Humming that I took a picture of his fraying, you know, classic Adidas tracksuit, and instantly, 2000 dollars comes in from the poker community. Wow. 50 different people were like, absolutely, that tracksuit smells.”

Jason Calacanis Nov 29, 2025 ▶ 9:08 Live Poker Match!: The Besties Vs. Phil Hellmuth, Alan Keating, and Jason Koon

ALL-IN Disclosure

Chamath: 'Besties' nickname was co-opted to mock Phil Hellmuth

“One of our other friends, Phil Hellmuth, kept calling me Bestie C. And we used to think it was the dumbest thing that we've ever heard. And then what we thought was, would be even funnier is to just co-opt it. And it was done. But it was done initially to make…”

Chamath Palihapitiya May 13, 2021 ▶ 1:03:51 E32: Behind the scenes of Elon hosting SNL, CDC failures, America's real-time UBI experiment & more

Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Phil's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
ALL-INLEDGER		5	12	57% 4/7	full record on All-In →