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Phil Hellmuth

6 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement May 13, 2021 by Chamath Palihapitiya · said 219 times in 53 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

On the record as a speaker too: Phil Hellmuth's record, appearances and statements → this page counts the times other people say the name.

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brought up most by Jason Calacanis (102), Chamath Palihapitiya (45), David Friedberg (34), David Sacks (32), Alexandra Botez (4), Nate Silver (1), Brad Gerstner (1)

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2026 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2025 44 mentions in 10 episodes 4 per episode
2024 49 mentions in 11 episodes 4 per episode
2023 22 mentions in 6 episodes 4 per episode
2022 78 mentions in 15 episodes 5 per episode
2021 20 mentions in 7 episodes 3 per episode
2020 3 mentions in 1 episode

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Everything said about Phil Hellmuth, oldest first

May 13, 2021 neutral
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
Oct 2, 2023
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
Nov 6, 2024 neutral
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!
Nov 29, 2025 positive
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
Nov 29, 2025
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
Nov 29, 2025 neutral
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
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