11 Facts About Phil Galfond

Phil Galfond was born on January 16,1985 and is an American professional poker player.

Phil Galfond is currently the owner of real money poker site Run It Once Poker and poker training site Run It Once Training where he is a coach.

Phil Galfond formerly resided in New York City, where he installed a slide as his access between the two penthouse apartments he purchased.

Phil Galfond won the $5,000 pot-limit Omaha with rebuys event at the 2008 World Series of Poker, earning $817,781.

Phil Galfond then earned his third gold bracelet in 2018, winning the $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship for $567,788.

Phil Galfond finished in 70th place in the $25,000 buy-in World Poker Tour World Championship in April 2008, earning $39,570.

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

In November 2019, Phil Galfond issued a challenge to the poker world to play high-stakes heads-up pot-limit Omaha, deemed the Phil Galfond Challenge.

Phil Galfond issued the challenge in two parts: one challenge was open to PLO coaches and the other was to everyone else in the poker world.

Albeit considered standard theory today, Phil Galfond was among the first players to utilize hand ranges instead of a fixed hand approach when analyzing opponents' holdings.

In 2012, Phil Galfond started the poker training site Run It Once Training with fellow high-stakes players, Ben Sulsky, Di Dang and Hac Dang as coaches.