Phil Galfond

Born in 1985, Phil 'OMGClayAiken' Galfond is a professional poker player from North Potomac, Maryland. Galfond attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison and currently resides in Vancouver, Canada. Phil began playing poker in 2003 focusing on sit-n-go tournaments for the first 2-2.5 years. He switched to No Limit cash games and eventually moved over to Pot Limit Omaha. You can now find him playing in the biggest PLO games available online and he has been featured on seasons 4 and 6 of GSN's High Stakes Poker.

Phil had two cashes in the 2006 World Series of Poker and followed that up with two more in 2007. At the 2008 WSOP, Galfond won his first bracelet in the $5,000 buy-in pot-limit Omaha with rebuys event for just shy of $818,000. Hendon Mob lists his live tournament earnings as approaching $1 million.

Phil posts on 2+2 under the handle “jman28.” Learn more about Phil Galfond

Pokercasts Featuring Phil Galfond

Episode	Title	Date	Play
Episode 56	Pokercast Episode 56 - Phil Galfond, Nolan Dalla & Entourage	January 27, 2009
Episode 221	PokerCast Episode 221 - Phil Galfond, Taylor Caby & SCOOP Coverage	May 15, 2012
Episode 250	PokerCast Episode 250 - Phil Galfond & Howard Lederer Civil Case Settlement	December 19, 2012