Top Trending: Phil Hellmuth Offers $1 Million Poker Cash Game Challenge to His Critics: 'Talk is Cheap'

Poker pro Phil Hellmuth wants to silence his critics once and for all....by offering a $1 million cash game challenge. Scroll down for all the latest gambling headlines from around the globe and the top trending gambling articles at Gambling911.com.

The "Poker Brat" tweeted out a challenge to his "critics" who don't think he's any good at cash games. Each player, if the prop bet is accepted, would wager $500,000 for a $1,000,000 pot.

The 17-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner tweeted out the following challenge: 

Talk is cheap

If someone actually believes that I am a losing player in cash games (I have won over $3M since 2014 in cash games and have tax records to prove it), then will they put their money where their mouth is?

My critic and I will post $500,000 each, and that critic can book me—dollar for dollar—in the games you say I lose money in, televised cash games (where I won 23-out-of-24 sessions from 2013-2019).

This year: I am winning $110,000 in 6 sessions of $25-$50 “Hellmuth’s Home Game” (on YouTube and @CBSSportsNet

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• Winning $2 Miillion Powerball Ticket is Sold at a Publix in Florida. Here’s Where - A Powerball player just missed a $67 million jackpot — but still won a life-changing prize in Florida. The player bought a ticket that matched all but one number picked in the Sept. 15 drawing. Since the person spent an extra dollar on the Power Play option, their $1 million prize doubled to $2 million, results show. So where was the winning ticket purchased? The lucky ticket was sold at the Publix grocery store on McGregor Boulevard in Fort Myers.
   
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• Gang Posed as Detectives to Con Racing Scam Victims - Gang members who posed as private detectives to defraud more than £110,000 from victims of previous horse racing and betting scams have been jailed. Rogue builder Christopher Call, 36, and his associate Charles Palmer, 43, who fled to Spain in the aftermath, led a fake scheme offering fraud victims compensation in exchange for commission paid upfront, Teesside Crown Court heard. Kevin Ratcliffe, 44, lent the pair a Bentley to help portray them as successful businessmen while Joseph Holden, 35, allowed the money to be paid into his bank account. Judge Francis Laird KC said the gang from Sussex targeted vulnerable and "desperate" people who had already lost thousands of pounds.
   

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