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Phil Laak was born on 8 September, 1972 in Dublin, Ireland, is an Irish-born American poker player (born 1972). Discover Phil Laak'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 51 years old?
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Phil Laak Height, Weight & Measurements
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Phil Laak Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Phil Laak worth at the age of 51 years old? Phil Laak’s income source is mostly from being a successful Player. He is from Los Angeles, California. We have estimated Phil Laak's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Timeline
Philip Courtney Laak (born September 8, 1972) is an Irish–American professional poker player and a poker commentator, now residing in Los Angeles, California.
Laak holds a World Poker Tour (WPT) title, a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet, and has appeared on numerous nationally aired television shows.
Laak was born in Dublin, Ireland, raised on the East Coast of the United States, and now lives in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
His family moved to Wellesley, Massachusetts, when he was four years old.
He graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a degree in mechanical engineering and worked in varying jobs prior to getting into open poker games in California.
Prior to moving to the west, Laak lived for several years in New York City where he honed his skills as a backgammon player before turning his focus to poker.
Laak learned to play poker as a child.
His first major tournament victory was at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Celebrity Invitational in February 2004.
He has made two other WPT final tables since his victory: sixth place in both the season two Battle of Champions and the 2005 Five Diamond World Poker Classic.
At the 2005 World Series of Poker (WSOP), Laak finished second to Johnny Chan in the $2,500 pot limit hold 'em event.
Laak defeated Ram Vaswani to win the inaugural William Hill Poker Grand Prix, taking home the £150,000 first prize.
He has also competed in numerous Poker Royale series.
Laak appeared on seasons two through seven of High Stakes Poker on GSN, and served as the dealer on the short-lived television series E! Hollywood Hold'em.
Laak was a winner of NBC's Poker After Dark, earning the weekly prize of $120,000.
The tournament was titled "Phil Phil" because both Phil Laak and Phil Hellmuth were contenders.
Laak wrote a monthly column called "Being Phil Laak", in the poker-themed Bluff Magazine, from 2005 until the magazine folded in 2015.
Laak co-hosted a show called I Bet You on the (MOJO network) with his friend Antonio Esfandiari, where they can be found betting on any and all things.
He is currently dating actress and 2005 $1,000 buy-in Ladies no-limit Texas hold 'em champion poker player Jennifer Tilly.
At the 2007 conference of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in Vancouver, British Columbia, Laak and fellow professional player Ali Eslami competed against, and beat, Polaris, a poker playing computer program developed at the University of Alberta, in two of the four rounds with the remaining rounds being a loss and a draw.
In 2008, Laak made a cameo appearance in the Knight Rider television movie, where he was credited as "Poker Pro".
Laak played the first day of the Main Event of the 2008 World Series of Poker incognito, in a latex mask, wig, make-up, and costume.
His disguise was reported thereafter by AP reporter Oskar Garcia.
Laak also played in the 2009 Aussie Millions cash game Invitational.
In October 2009, Laak was crowned PartyPoker.com World Open V champion winning $250,000 in the process.
He overcame a final table that included Luke 'FullFlush' Schwartz and Laak's long-term partner, actress and poker pro Jennifer Tilly.
The WSOP 2009 rules added a new rule prohibiting wearing masks at the table.
On September 16, 2010, Laak won his first career WSOP bracelet by winning the £2,500 buy-in Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em championship at the 2010 World Series of Poker Europe.
His win came after an accident involving an all-terrain vehicle in August, where he suffered a broken elbow amongst other injuries.
An "E" following a year denotes bracelet(s) won at the World Series of Poker Europe
On June 2–7, 2010, at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Laak set the world record for the longest time spent playing poker in a single session.
As of 2018, his total live tournament winnings exceed $3,650,000.
Laak became known widely in the poker scene as the "Unabomber" because of the hooded sweatshirt and sunglasses he wears at the table, making him resemble the forensic sketch of Theodore Kaczynski, who was known as the Unabomber.
These items were given to him by fellow poker player Gus Hansen.
Laak is also known for his unusual and inventive manner of speech.
He coined the poker terms "felted", which means having lost all of one's chips (i.e. nothing left in front of the player except the table felt), as well as "upstuck", meaning being down from your high point of the session (i.e., if you won $15,000 and then lost $10,000 within the same session).
He also coined the terms "POW" (Pay-off wizard), which he uses in a self-mocking fashion (i.e. one who pays off big bets on the river), and "Cherry bomb", which refers to large, ultimately unsuccessful bets.
