From the world of maybe it is, maybe it isn't sports, Phil Hellmuth Jr. -- arguably the most recognizable poker player in the world -- just won his record-setting 11th World Series of Poker bracelet in Las Vegas. The tournament, which stretches for a marathon 55 events and ends with the famous Texas Hold 'em World Championship in July, is about a third of way through its seven-week run at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino.

Hellmuth's latest win wasn't a cheapy, either. There were 2,628 players in the $1,500 buy-in, no-limit Texas Hold 'em event, and winning against such monster fields really requires almost as much luck as it does skill. The frequently insufferable to the point of being comic Hellmuth now leads both Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan in bracelets; both have 10. After his victory, an uncharacteristically modest Hellmuth actually admitted he "caught a few breaks ... this time around, I was lucky." 

All right, I want to know what they've done with the real Phil Hellmuth.

First place was good for more than $637,000. A guy named Andy Philachack from Garland, Texas can say he finished second to Hellmuth and gets to pocket nearly $395,000.

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