phil galfond
OMGCLAYAIKEN or ” Phil Galfond” is one of the very few online players that has successfully transitioned to the highest stakes live cash games. [1]
Born in 1985, Phil Galfond grew up in Maryland. [2]
Phil Galfond (born 1985) is an American professional poker player who is the World Series of Poker bracelet winner of the $5,000 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha with Rebuys event at the 2008 World Series of Poker. [3]
: Yesterday was the day for Phil Galfond aka. [4]
Rather than choose a more intimidating handle, Galfond wanted his opponents to be embarrassed to lose to him’something they’ve been doing more often than not over the last several years at the highest-stakes games online poker has to offer. [2]
He recently confirmed he is one of the best by winning more than 800.000 dollars and taking first prize at the 2008 World Series of Poker 1.5 K rebuy PLO event. [1]
Ship It Holla Balla, Phil Galfond (Online Aliases JMan28 / Jman / OMGClayAiken), posted today on 2+2 poker about his recent experience on the next season of GSN’s High Stakes Poker TV Show. [...] I’m gonna stop listing off players in case I’m not supposed to. [...] Lots of anticipation and only got the chance to play for 2 hours with a small roll since I was saving 500k for the big day. [...] Galfond plays in some of the highest stakes games online under the username OMGClayAiken at Full Tilt Poker. [5]
Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond could change his screenname to OMGHowLucky after his monday session. [4]
Galfond has six cashes at the World Series of Poker and won the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha w/ Rebuys event at the 2008 World Series of Poker, earning $817,781. [3]
In what some have regarded as the best final table ever assembled in World Series of Poker history, Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond emerged as the champion, earning over $800,000. [6]
The final table was packed with other professional players like top online player Brian “tsarrast” Rast, Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu, John Juanda, Kirill Gerasimov, Johnny Chan and David Benyamine. [3]
Though he admits to having watched his fair share of the show, the story behind Galfond’s online moniker is actually nothing more than a young man’s choice to go against the grain at the virtual tables, where tough, machismo-laden identities often rule the day. [2]
Sources:
[1] OMGCLAYAIKEN (Phil Galfond) is sick (pokerfornia.com/
[2] The PokerNews Profile: Phil Galfond | Poker News (pokernews.com/news/…
[3] Phil Galfond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Galfond)
[4] Phil Galfond ‘ Blogs, Pictures, and more on WordPress (wordpress.com/tag/phil-galfond)
[5] Phil Galfond (Jman28 / OMGClayAiken) on High Stakes Poker (bankrollboost.com/poker_blog/
[6] WSOP: Bracelet Winner Q and A — Phil Galfond - Poker News - CardPlayer.com (cardplayer.com/…/4444/