hil Hellmuth dropped out of the University of Wisconsin to pursue a poker career. His phenomenal WSOP run over the past 19 years all started in 1988, when he placed fifth in a Seven-Card Stud High-Low tournament. He won the main event the following year, the youngest player in history to do so – at age 24. He is also one of only three players in history to win three gold bracelets within a single year. He holds a record which is unlikely and perhaps impossible to break – three consecutive WSOP wins in three consecutive days (April 26-28, 1993). He has been one of the most thriving players of the last twenty years. “Hellmuth” has become a bona fide trademark – representing to poker what Tiger Woods is to golf and Michael Jordan was to basketball.

“I expect fantastic things to happen to me,” Phil says. And they have. He is the first player ever to win 11 gold bracelets at the World Series of Poker, along with five top-ten finishes in World Poker Tour events.

Phil is perhaps best renowned for his mordant table image, needling his opponents and frequently acting out in the event of a terrible-beat. “The Poker Brat,” they call him.

Regardless of his table image, one cannot escape Phil Hellmuth’s track record. In addition to have won over $7,000,000 in lifetime tournament earnings, Phil has multiple endorsement deals, books, and merchandise, making him perhaps the best-renowned face in poker.