Hellmuth arrives dressed as ‘Greatest Showman’ at WSOP Main Event
Phil Hellmuth as the “The Greatest Showman!" pulls a cage with Daniel "Jungleman" Cates for his entrance during the final starting flight of World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in Main Event No-limit Hold’em World Championship at the Horseshoe on Thursday, July 6, 2023, in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
Phil Hellmuth tips his hat as the “The Greatest Showman!" Before his entrance during the final starting flight of World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in Main Event No-limit Hold’em World Championship at the Horseshoe on Thursday, July 6, 2023, in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
Phil Hellmuth as the “The Greatest Showman!" pulls a cage with Daniel "Jungleman" Cates for his entrance during the final starting flight of World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in Main Event No-limit Hold’em World Championship at the Horseshoe on Thursday, July 6, 2023, in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
Daniel "Jungleman" Cates arrives to make a grand entrance with Phil Hellmuth during the final starting flight of World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in Main Event No-limit Hold’em World Championship at the Horseshoe on Thursday, July 6, 2023, in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
Phil Hellmuth as the “The Greatest Showman!" pulls a cage with Daniel "Jungleman" Cates for his entrance during the final starting flight of World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in Main Event No-limit Hold’em World Championship at the Horseshoe on Thursday, July 6, 2023, in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
Phil Hellmuth as the “The Greatest Showman!" pulls a cage with Daniel "Jungleman" Cates for his entrance during the final starting flight of World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in Main Event No-limit Hold’em World Championship at the Horseshoe on Thursday, July 6, 2023, in Las Vegas. Models follow and hold numbers representing his 17 gold bracelets. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
Phil Hellmuth as the “The Greatest Showman!" pulls a cage with Daniel "Jungleman" Cates for his entrance during the final starting flight of World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in Main Event No-limit Hold’em World Championship at the Horseshoe on Thursday, July 6, 2023, in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
Models enter and hold numbers representing Phil Hellmuth's 17 gold bracelets as the “The Greatest Showman!" pulls a cage with Daniel "Jungleman" Cates for the entrance during the final starting flight of World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in Main Event No-limit Hold’em World Championship at the Horseshoe on Thursday, July 6, 2023, in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
Phil Hellmuth as the “The Greatest Showman!" pulls a cage with Daniel "Jungleman" Cates for his entrance during the final starting flight of World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in Main Event No-limit Hold’em World Championship at the Horseshoe on Thursday, July 6, 2023, in Las Vegas. Models follow and hold numbers representing his 17 gold bracelets. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
Models enter and hold numbers representing Phil Hellmuth's 17 gold bracelets as the “The Greatest Showman!" pulls a cage with Daniel "Jungleman" Cates for the entrance during the final starting flight of World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in Main Event No-limit Hold’em World Championship at the Horseshoe on Thursday, July 6, 2023, in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
Phil Hellmuth as the “The Greatest Showman!" Looks to a cage with Daniel "Jungleman" Cates during his entrance at the final starting flight of World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in Main Event No-limit Hold’em World Championship at the Horseshoe on Thursday, July 6, 2023, in Las Vegas. Models follow and hold numbers representing his 17 gold bracelets. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
Phil Hellmuth as the “The Greatest Showman!" with Daniel "Jungleman" Cates during his entrance at the final starting flight of World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in Main Event No-limit Hold’em World Championship at the Horseshoe on Thursday, July 6, 2023, in Las Vegas. Models follow and hold numbers representing his 17 gold bracelets. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
Models enter and hold numbers representing Phil Hellmuth's 17 gold bracelets as the “The Greatest Showman!" pulls a cage with Daniel "Jungleman" Cates for the entrance during the final starting flight of World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in Main Event No-limit Hold’em World Championship at the Horseshoe on Thursday, July 6, 2023, in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images
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Phil Hellmuth turned the World Series of Poker Main Event into a circus Thursday.
The 17-time WSOP champion arrived at Horseshoe Las Vegas for Flight 1D of the $10,000 buy-in No-limit Hold’em World Championship in cosplay as P.T. Barnum from the 2017 movie “The Greatest Showman.”
Hellmuth towed a cage behind him with professional poker player Daniel “Jungleman” Cates inside dressed as a lion. There were also 17 women with cat makeup in a single-file line, one for each of his wins at the WSOP.
The player known as the “Poker Brat” won his record 17th WSOP bracelet, which are awarded for tournament victories, early Sunday in the $10,000 buy-in Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold’em event. No other player has more than 10 bracelets.
Hellmuth’s grand entrance has become a tradition at the Main Event. Last year, he arrived dressed as Darth Vader and was eliminated less than two hours later.
It has been a successful summer for Hellmuth with 11 cashes and the bracelet. He is looking to make the money in the Main Event for the first time since 2015.
This year’s Main Event has broken the record for largest field, overtaking the mark of 8,773 entrants in 2006.
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