Phil Galfond

Phil Galfond
Galfond, after winning the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha w/Rebuys event at the 2008 WSOP
Nickname(s)	OMGClayAiken (Full Tilt) MrSweets28 (PokerStars) Jman
Hometown	North Potomac, Maryland
World Series of Poker
Bracelet(s)	1
Final table(s)	1
Money finish(es)	7
Highest ITM Main Event finish	141st, 2010
World Poker Tour
Title(s)	None
Final table(s)	None
Money finish(es)	1
Information accurate as of 07-16-2010.

Phil Galfond (born 1985) is an American professional poker player. Galfond won a World Series of Poker bracelet in the $5,000 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha with Rebuys event at the 2008 World Series of Poker. Due to his success as a high stakes online player, he appeared on the fourth and sixth seasons of GSN's High Stakes Poker.

Personal life

Galfond is originally from North Potomac, Maryland and attended Thomas Sprigg Wootton High School and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He currently resides in New York City where he installed a slide as his access between the two penthouse apartments he purchased in 2011.^[1]

Due to the legal actions against online poker that took place on April 15, 2011 in the United States known as Black Friday, Galfond moved to Vancouver, Canada so he could continue to play poker online.^[2]

Poker

Live poker

Tournaments

As of 2010, Galfond's total live tournament winnings exceed $996,000.^[3] His 6 cashes at the WSOP account for $925,936 of those winnings.^[4]

World Series of Poker

Galfond won the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha w/ Rebuys event at the 2008 World Series of Poker, earning $817,781. He defeated Adam Hourani during heads-up play. The final table featured a number of well known professional players including Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu, John Juanda, Kirill Gerasimov, Johnny Chan, David Benyamine as well as online players Brian 'tsarrast' Rast and Adam 'houdini' Hourani.^[5][6]

World Series of Poker bracelets

Year	Event	Prize Money
2008	$5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha w/ Rebuys	$817,781

World Poker Tour

Galfond finished in 70th place in the 2008 $25,000 buy-in World Poker Tour No Limit Hold'em Championship Event, earning $39,570.

Other notable tournaments

Galfond finished in 18th place at the 2006 World Series of Poker Circuit event in Grand Casino Tunica, earning $22,895.^[6]

Online poker

Galfond is well known for online poker where he plays high stakes cash games primarily $200/$400 stakes and above in No-limit Texas hold 'em and pot limit Omaha tables on Full Tilt Poker under his nickname "OMGClayAiken".^[7] With a lifetime net profit of over $8M in Internet poker play, he has been one of the most successful online poker players in history (as of May, 2011) ^[8]. According to Galfond, he chose “OMGClayAiken” as the antithesis of the “macho” screen names that are prevalent in online poker in hopes that other players would be embarrassed to lose to him.^[9]

Other poker activities

BlueFirePoker

In January 2009 after several years of discussing the possibility, Galfond launched BlueFirePoker.com, a poker training site utilizing instructional videos. At BlueFirePoker Galfond is in charge of all of the instructional content as well as hiring additional trainers, his partners handle the day to day operation of the site and business. ^[10]

Notes

1. ^ Bachelor Builds Slide Between His NYC Apartments
2. ^ Pempus, Brian (2011-07-27). "Phil Galfond Returns to Online Poker". CardPlayer. CardPlayer.com. http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/11752-phil-galfond-returns-to-online-poker. Retrieved 2011-08-01. 
3. ^ Butt, Robert. "Philip Galfond - Stats". The Hendon Mob. http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=s&n=56164. Retrieved 2008-06-11. 
4. ^ http://www.wsop.com/players/playerProfile.asp?playerID=11333&pagecolor=FFFFFF
5. ^ "A final table for the ages". ESPN.com. 2008-06-16. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=3446642&type=blogEntry. Retrieved 2008-06-17. 
6. ^ ^{a b} Butt, Robert. "Philip Galfond - Results". The Hendon Mob. http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=56164. Retrieved 2008-06-17. 
7. ^ "Phil Galfond (OMGClayAiken) Poker Bio". pokeronamac.com. http://pokeronamac.com/online-poker-pros/phil-galfond/. Retrieved 2008-06-17. 
8. ^ "Top Poker Winners". pokertableratings.com. http://www.pokertableratings.com/top-poker-winners-alltime/. Retrieved 2011-05-03. 
9. ^ Galfond interview by Amanda Leatherman for PokerNews (2008-06-17); http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUUx0wcn29A
10. ^ Phil Galfond Launches BlueFirePoker

External links

• PokerStatic.com
• BlueFirePoker.com

Persondata
Name	Galfond, Phil
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1985
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death