I can guarantee lots of people will assume that the title of this article will lead people to think the famous Phil Hellmuth has added another wsop title to his 11 WSOP titles and 64 cashes but everyone is poorly informed as its another Phil from Madison. Phil Galfond won a massive $817781 and followed in the wake of madison’s famous son also he got a WSOP gold bracelet in the $5,000 match, Pot-Limit Omaha game with re-buys.

Galfond refers to himself as a professional Poker player which targets mainly cash games, but he showed everyone that he has a lot more skill than that, when he got to the final 9. The best bit was on the final table there were a gaggle of past WSOP winners including, Phil Hellmuth, Johnny Chan, Daniel Negreanu and John Juanda. The total prize pool for the match ended at $3,085,930 as early losers re bought at $5000 a pop. What makes Galfonds win even better is he beat 152 entrants.

The 2008 WSOP has been a real success so far and the big main event is yet to come and even better not only have the usual suspects won matches but new faces are taking bracelets all over the place. The stars of the future are here.