This year at the WSOP, Phil Galfond now has a total of three bracelets to his name, after he won Event #60: $10,000 PLO Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship which had a player field of 237 entrants. Along with the bracelet and the title, he took home the first-place cash prize worth a whopping $567,788.
Phil Galfond, who plays online under the alias "OMGClayAiken", is a proud owner of two gold bracelets following his win of Event #29: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship on Monday night. The tournament drew 77 players who created a prize pool of $723,800 - of which Galfond received $224,665.
Phil Galfond,27, has won millions of dollars both online and live and he has also won a World Series of Poker bracelet and appeared on multiple seasons of GSN's High Stakes Poker. Yesterday, Galfond wrote about how he started playing poker in a blog entry titled "My Poker (+other) Story. It's very interesting reading (over 5000 words). In fact, it's a must read for all poker lovers out there...
High stakes profile Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond has made a challenge to the President of the United States, Barack Obama and the American Congress. Galfond's challenge consists of heads-up match where he challenges anyone in the Congress to a game of poker. Should the challenger win they would take down a nice $1 Million prize and if they lose they would have to pay Galfond $1.Read more » Phil Galfond in Million Dollar Challenge
Last year Gus Hansen was losing a lot of money to Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond at the Omaha tables at Full Tilt Poker. But at the beginning of 2009 it has been a completely different story. Yesterday they could be found playing at their usual PLO tables at Full Tilt Poker and it was Gus Hansen who continued his winning streak in 2009. In fact seven out of the ten largest pots were won by Gus Hansen.
Phil Galfond, who plays online under the alias "OMGClayAiken", is a proud owner of two gold bracelets following his win of Event #29: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship on Monday night. The tournament drew 77 players who created a prize pool of $723,800 - of which Galfond received $224,665.
