Ben Roberts - Serial Bluffer (According to Neil Channing)
Table Channing/Hellmuth/Rutter/Rober ts/Madsen etc. is winning the Chattiest Table Prize - and in a pretty good-natured banter-y way too. The recent addition of Phil Hellmuth (inserted between Jeff Madsen and Stu Rutter) may have changed the dynamic slightly but it's pretty entertaining to watch in a dull patch.
An example: Stu Rutter raised preflop and Ben Roberts made the call. The flop came with little interest from either of them. The turn: a free . Now Roberts bet out 1,100 and Rutter quickly passed. Not so interesting, yes? But then Madsen admitted, "I had the A-3-5-T of hearts!" for the straight flush, as it turned out.
"I'm not sure what Ben was betting," laughed Hellmuth.
"Ben was bluffing," insisted Channing, "He's always bluffing!"
Ben Roberts, meanwhile, kept an amiable and probably sensible silence.