Phil Hellmuth's Cans Featured in ESPN the Mag

Whenever the common discussion over what is and isn’t considered a sport takes center stage, the most popular example of what “isn’t” a sport but is treated otherwise, would be poker.  Poker takes absolutely zero athletic ability.  Anyone arguing against that fact need only to see a picture of the 2004 winner to be convinced otherwise.

ESPN is largely responsible for the transformation of poker from a game played in backrooms and garages around the country to a game that is featured for weeks at a time on the Worldwide Leader in Sports. 

So it was no surprise that ESPN the Magazine took another step towards aligning poker players with other, more physically  gifted athletes, in their recent “The Body” edition which featured borderline NFSW photos of select participants from various sports without clothing.  On most pages they were featuring the six pack abs, massive biceps or side-boob of a professional athlete.  On the poker page they were featuring…Phil Hellmuth.

Sure putting him next to the good looking female poker player is appreciated, but the bottom line is that the first and only pair of jugs a reader is seeing in this photo are Hellmuth’s.  And that’s just unnecessary, ESPN.

And to be honest, Scotty Nguyen on the far left is completely freaking us out.

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