Phil Hellmuth aiming to 'change humanity'

LAS VEGAS -- Whether it's sitting at the ESPN featured table under the hot lights, or bumping into a reporter in the hallways of the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino and taking part in an impromptu interview, Hellmuth's bravado gauge is always on full.


You want salacious statements and audacious assertions? President Trump has got nothing on the Poker Brat.

Hellmuth busted in the World Series of Poker Main Event on Day 2C, but was back at the Rio on Thursday for a book signing. He says he is being told by friends that his new autobiography — titled, simply, Poker Brat, The Story of the World's Greatest Poker Player, — is "way too personal" and that people "can't put it down."