Phil Galfond has become one of the most respected and revered players at the high stakes online tables.  He regularly wins on the $200/$400 and $500/$1,000 no-limit holdem and pot-limit Omaha games on Full Tilt. In the last twelve months he has managed to win around $7 million on Full Tilt alone. He has managed to replicate his online success in the world of live tournaments, as he managed to win a gold bracelet in the $5,000 pot-limit Omaha event with rebuys at the 2008 WSOP against a final table that included the likes of David Benyamine, Johnny Chan, John Juanda, Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Nedreanu.  

Phil Galfond was majoring in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison when he started playing poker online, mainly playing. Within eight months he was earning $50 per hour crushing the sit-and-gos and then went on to start buying into the biggest sit-and-go tournaments to be found online, with a $1,000 buy-in, Galfond was consistently winning at that level as well.

It was twoplustwo.com that Galfond started to discuss poker strategies with a group of likeminded young poker pros that included Tom Dwan and David Benefield. In fact Tom Dwan has banned Galfond from taking part in the durrrr challenge due to their close friendship. 

It was in early 2006 that Galphond made the transition into the world of online cash games, which at first proved to be frustrating as his attempts to move up in online stakes left a big whole in his bankroll. But his perseverance paid off, obsessevly analysing his game and that of his opponents, by the end of 2007  he was regularly beating the $300/$600 games. 

More recently Galfond has been  instrumental in the launch of Bluefire Poker, an online poker training site that focuses on cash games. Bluefire Poker made headlines recently when the site challenged President Barack Obama to a $1 million game of poker.