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Phil Hellmuth Jr. – Professional Poker Player Review Series
Phil Hellmuth Jr. is a Professional Poker Player. He has won 11 bracelets in World Series of Poker and made a great history in the world of poker game. Phillip J. Hellmuth, Jr. or Phil Hellmuth Jr. was born on 16th July in 1964. He was born in Madison which is the capital of the Wisconsin of the United States. He is by profession a poker player. He holds the world record of securing the most bracelets as the champion’s award of the World Series of poker tournament that took place every year in Las Vegas.
Phil Hellmuth Jr. is also a member of the Poker Hall of Fame. This 44 years Professional Poker Player is one of the greatest players all over the world. He is well known for his tough attitude to the other players. He has a very good sense of humor and he often makes sarcastic remarks during the play. Phil Hellmuth Jr. was studied in the University of Wisconsin-Madison for three years. He then dropped out his studies for playing poker as a full time player.
He made himself professional in this play but that was not an easy thing to do. He practiced the strategies for a long time and invented new strategies to win the casino game. He is a self made poker professional of his home town California. He presently lives in Alto in California with his family. His wife is Katherine Sanborn and she is also a poker player. Phil and Catherine have two sons, Phillip and Nicholas.
Phil Hellmuth Jr. is the only poker player who has got 11 bracelets and established a milestone in the way of poker game. He won the bracelets from the year 1989 to 2007. In the year 1989 Phil first took part in the World Series of Poker tournament. In that tournament he got the first bracelet in $10,000 no limit hold’em world championship and won $755,000 as the prize money. In the year 1992, Phil Hellmuth Jr. won in $5,000 limit hold’em and got $188,000 as the prize money. In 1993 world championship he got 3 bracelets in the tournament.
He earned $138,000 in the game of $1,500 limit hold’em, $161,400 in the game of $2,500 no limit hold’em and $173,000 in the game of $5,000 no limit hold’em. After four years of this great achievement he again secured his next bracelet in the year 1997. In this tear Phil Hellmuth Jr. earned $204,000 for winning in the game of $3000 pot limit hold’em. And again after four years of that he won another bracelet in the World Series of Poker 2001.
He earned $316,000 for winning the game of $2,000 no limit hold’em. He already got 7 bracelets and naturally he already became very famous in 2001. In 2003 he again got 2 bracelets and won $171,400 for the game of $2,500 limit hold’em and $410,860 for $3,000 no limit hold’em. He also won a bracelet in 2006 and the latest bracelet he got in the year 2007 and earned $631,863 and $ 637,254 respectively. Phil Hellmuth Jr. is one of the most successful Poker Players in the world.
Reflections From a Bracelet Winner (Page 1 of 3)
My name is Dutch Boyd. I am a professional poker player and World Series of Poker bracelet winner. I am what I call a third-generation poker player, meaning I got into poker after Rounders but before the Moneymaker World Series in 2003. I can honestly an confidently call myself an expert in the poker industry. Here are some reflections I’d like to share.
Back in 1999, at 18 years old and fresh out of law school, I was one of the co-founders of an online cardroom, PokerSpot, which went under and left over 1200 players holding the bag for their cashier balance. It was a big disaster for everyone involved and should serve as a cautionary tale to anybody putting too much trust in an online gambling site or buying into the “first-mover advantage” myth. But we did invent real money multi-table tournaments, and after almost a year of trying to peddle the software to someone, we finally abandoned the project and open-sourced the poker software. I like to think this has helped the continued development of online poker.
After Pokerspot failed, I started focusing on making a career as a professional poker player. I propped the 20-40 games in 2002 at Garden City Casino in San Jose, CA… I then saw a huge opportunity in poker tournaments, so I quit the prop ob and started following the professional tournament circuit. I hit my first major break in 2003. I won the very last mega-satellite to the main event, and finished 12th. It was the first year ESPN was really doing it justice, and they had all new production people who didn’t really know much about who was who…. so they focused on results. I was the chipleader for a good chunk of time in that tourney, and in the top ten for three straight days… so I got a lot more camera time than I otherwise would have. Poker was changing and poker stars were going to be made. A few friends were with me, Joey Bartholdi and Brett “Gank” Jungblut, and “The Crew” was born, bankrolled with that initial 2003 score.
We recruited a couple of other guys. Joey left The Crew and then we picked up Scott. We went pretty much broke, but found some backers for the WSOP 2004 and kicked some ass. Gank won a bracelet. Scotty won two. Joey and I both got as close as you can get (3rd and 2nd, respectively). ESPN blew us up, Rolling Stone ran a feature. We’d continue to dominate the poker scene. But by this point we were no longer really that tight of a group. There were some internal feuds. Friends became rivals. But we all knew that we’d always be The Crew… it was more of an experience than anything else. A handful of 7 guys trying to reach a poker dream.
Joey would finally get his legendary win by snapping off the WPT Championship event in 2006 for almost $4 million dollars. At the time, it was the third largest poker tournament in the history of the game. I’d get mine a month later, snapping off the first $2,500 Six-handed event at the WSOP. It was a televised event and had me going up headsup against Joe Hachem, the previous year’s world champion. Up until that event, I was admittedly the (male) poker player with the highest fame-to-earnings ratio. After that win, though, that could no longer be said.