Find out why Hellmuth is dressed as a baby
In today's Daily Rewind we see some embarrassing pictures of both Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu, plus Greg Merson sets the record straight.
I dodge nap time baby
Is it a prop bet, or is it just the weirdest reaction to turning 50 ever?
No, it was a prop bet apparently. Phil Hellmuth lost one after busting first in a recent Sit & Go, meaning he had to wear this baby outfit at the taping this week the show for Poker Night in America.
Negreanu gets down for his 40th
Hellmuth is not the only poker legend to seemingly go nuts after a landmark birthday. Daniel Negreanu turned 40 last week and a number of pictures of him doing his best Dan Bilzerian impression began to surface on Twitter.
These are our favourites, thanks to F5Poker for bringing them to our attention:
Merson explains his rant against World Poker Tour
During the WSOP, 2012 Main Event champion went on a Twitter rant where called out the WPT for scheduling an event during the Day Ones of the Main Event. He felt that it was disrepectful to poach potential players from the biggest poker event of the year.
This week he took to Facebook to clarify his views:
"Basically I think it’s very unlikely I would have fallen into poker without the boom in 2003 (or several of you) which was caused predominately by the main event. The main event blew up poker to another level and keeping the numbers strong for the main event is important for the industry as it continues to struggle without federal legalized online poker in the states."
He went on to say:
"How come WPT couldn’t just start this tournament on day 2 of the main?"
For the full explanation, check out Greg Merson's Facebook Page.
Question of the Day
It was another big losing day for Chun Lei Zhou, the Macau gambler better known as 'samrostan' online, for the second day in a row he dropped well over $400,000 at the nose bleed tables.
The biggest known benefactor of which was unknown grinder 'Follow the Hawk' who won big money yesterday at the PLO tables, mostly from the likes of 'samrostan' and Viktor Blom.
Daily Signoff
There are so many embarrassing Phil Hellmuth videos we could have picked to go alongside his baby photos, so we picked one at random. Here is the time he crashed a race car.
Mondays Daily Rewind: MicroMillions finale
 Barry Carter is the editor of PokerStrategy.com and the co-author of The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2. He has been working in the poker industry for nine years and in 2013 won the APAT Award for Best Poker Media Provider. You can learn more about his work here.
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