Hollywood producers looking for locations for a new film based on the life of poker brat Phil Hellmuth have caused a stir in the player’s home town, it has been revealed.
 

Hellmuth hails from Madison, Wisconsin and attended the state’s university for three years, but filmmakers looking round his youthful haunts have managed to spark a debate among regional officials, the Los Angeles Times has reported.
 

A proposed tax credit for filmmakers in the region, passed into law last year, will not come into effect until 2008, potentially driving away the chance of filming in Madison and hence the revenue that could be made alongside such a production.
 

With filmmakers wanting to begin shooting this summer, a campaign to move the law forward has begun.
 

However, the LA Times notes that there is a similarly forceful opposition campaign already in action.
Why the rush? […] One film is not going to make or break this state,” said senator Russ Decker, according to the paper.

Hellmuth’s most famous poker win was at the World Series in 1989, when at 24 years old he became the event’s youngest ever winner.

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