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Phil Galfond was born on 16 January, 1985 in North Potomac, Maryland, United States, is an American poker player (born 1985). Discover Phil Galfond's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 39 years old?
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39 years old |
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Capricorn |
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16 January 1985 |
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16 January |
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North Potomac, Maryland, United States |
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North
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He is a member of famous Player with the age 39 years old group.
Phil Galfond Height, Weight & Measurements
At 39 years old, Phil Galfond height not available right now. We will update Phil Galfond's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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Who Is Phil Galfond's Wife?
His wife is Farah Fath (m. 2015)
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Farah Fath (m. 2015) |
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Phil Galfond Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Phil Galfond worth at the age of 39 years old? Phil Galfond’s income source is mostly from being a successful Player. He is from North. We have estimated Phil Galfond's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Pending |
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Under Review |
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Phil Galfond Social Network
Timeline
Phil Galfond (born January 16, 1985) is an American professional poker player.
The first six challengers were Bill Perkins, Brandon Adams, Chance Kornuth, Dan 'Jungleman' Cates, and online poker players 'ActionFreak' and 'VeniVidi1993.' In addition to the money won or lost on the poker table, Galfond and his challengers had large side bets that they were competing for.
After being down €900,000+ to poker professional VeniVidi1993, Galfond came back to win his first challenge by securing a €1,472 overall win and the side bet of €100,000.
In his match against Actionfreak, Phil Galfond ended the 15.000 hand battle with a €114,000 overall win.
This win netted him the sidebet of €150,000.
Albeit considered standard theory today, Galfond was among the first players to utilize hand ranges instead of a fixed hand approach when analyzing opponents' holdings.
Although not exact, this method allows for more accurate readings and positive EV play.
As of August 2023, Galfond's total live tournament winnings were nearly $3,000,000.
Galfond finished in 18th place at the 2006 World Series of Poker Circuit event in Grand Casino Tunica, earning $22,895.
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," and on Pokerstars under the screen name "MrSweets28."
Galfond won three World Series of Poker bracelets, in the $5,000 buy-in pot-limit Omaha with rebuys event in 2008, the $10,000 no-limit 2-7 single draw championship in 2015 and the $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship in 2018.
Due to his success as a high-stakes online player, he appeared on multiple seasons of GSN's High Stakes Poker.
He is currently the owner of real money poker site Run It Once Poker and poker training site Run It Once Training where he also is a coach.
Galfond is originally from North Potomac, Maryland and attended Thomas Sprigg Wootton High School and the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Galfond won the $5,000 pot-limit Omaha with rebuys event at the 2008 World Series of Poker, earning $817,781.
He defeated Adam Hourani during heads-up play.
He finished in 70th place in the $25,000 buy-in World Poker Tour World Championship in April 2008, earning $39,570.
He formerly resided in New York City, where he installed a slide as his access between the two penthouse apartments he purchased in 2011.
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).
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.
Due to the legal actions against online poker, which are known as Black Friday, that took place on April 15, 2011, in the United States, Galfond moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada so he could continue to play poker online.
In December 2012, he finished 24th in the $10,000 buy-in WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic for $31,714.
In 2012, Galfond started the poker training site Run It Once Training with fellow high-stakes players, Ben Sulsky, Di Dang and Hac Dang as coaches.
In February 2013, Galfond's all-time online earnings on Full Tilt Poker came to over $10,000,000.
Galfond married actress Farah Fath on May 15, 2015.
Galfond went on to win a second WSOP gold bracelet in 2015, topping a field of 77 entries in the $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Single Draw Championship to win $224,383.
Being concerned about the direction online poker was heading, Galfond announced the launch of poker site Run It Once Poker in August 2016.
Their son, Spencer, was born in December 2018.
He then earned his third gold bracelet in 2018, winning the $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship for $567,788.
Galfond has two World Poker Tour in-the-money finishes.
In November 2019, Galfond issued a challenge to the poker world to play high-stakes heads-up pot-limit Omaha (PLO), deemed the Galfond Challenge.
He issued the challenge in two parts: one challenge was open to PLO coaches and the other was to everyone else in the poker world.
Several opponents stepped up and details were ironed out for a series of high-stakes poker matches that would be played on Galfond's online poker site, Run It Once Poker.
As of September 2019, 125 coaches had produced content for his training site.
The site was launched in public beta in February 2019.
As of February 2020, Galfond's total live tournament winnings exceed $2,900,000.
His 24 cashes at the WSOP account for $2,876,895 of those winnings.
In October 2020, Run it Once was one of several entities named in a $330 million defamation lawsuit brought by poker professional Mike Postle.
In March 2022, Rush Street Interactive announced it had acquired Galfond's Run It Once poker brand and technology, in a deal which included Phil Galfond and his development team.
