Phil Hellmuth Jr. - ''Poker Brat'' World's Best Tournament Player Phil Hellmuth Jr. won his Record-Breaking 11th World Series of Poker Gold Bracelet on June 11, 2007 in event #15, $1500 buy-in No-Limit Holdem tournament. He defeated a field of 2,628 players to win the WSOP Title, his 11th Gold Bracelet and $637,254! Phil Hellmuth, a professional poker player from California, astounded the professional poker playing world when he won the World Series of Poker's tournament at the age of twenty-four. Why was such a win so surprising? Phil Hellmuth, after winning the main event in 1989, became the youngest player to ever win the WSOP. At one time, Phil Hellmuth was a student studying at the University of Wisconsin. While a student in college, Phil Hellmuth began his poker playing days by playing poker with friends. After winning successfully time and time again, Phil Hellmuth desired a more risky game with higher payouts. Long before he won the WSOP tournament, he had managed to pay off his student loans and accumulate a nice nest egg from the winnings he brought home playing poker. Given Phil Hellmuth's skill for poker, he left college to pursue a professional poker-playing career. If you're looking for the new-wave of online poker, Join PlayersOnly, the poker room where the true players are! Because of the Sleekness of their Interface and incredible bonus structure, PlayersOnly is America's Fastest Growing Poker Room! Receive an Instant 10% CASH BONUS and a 100% match poker bonus upto $650 and there are NO FEES for making a deposit! PlayersOnly hosts a $1,000,000.00 Freeroll Series and is Guaranteeing $3,000,000.00 in tournament prize money this month with one $150,000.00 guaranteed event at least once a month! Phil Hellmuth has no regrets and holds a positive attitude: such an attitude is evident when one considers the fact that Phil Hellmuth has managed to get a total of eleven WSOP gold bracelets under his belt. To add to the list of Phil Hellmuth's achievements, he has earned a top ten finish title in five WPT tournaments. Win your seat into the next WSOP or WPT Tournament through a satellite tournament! What are Phil Hellmuth's winnings to date? Phil Hellmuth has managed to rake in a pretty penny, bringing home well over 10,000,000 dollars in winnings. Phil Hellmuth favor's the game of Texas Holdem and has all eleven of his Gold Bracelets in No-Limit Holdem events. He also has an immense respect for poker players Annie Duke and Ted Forrest. --- by Bones McCoy at 1800-sports.com on June 17, 2007
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