Phil Gordon

Name: Phil Gordon
Nickname: Tiltboy
Current Residence: Las Vegas, Nev.
Birth Date: June 6, 1970
Birth Place: El Paso, Texas, United States
Poker Room: Full Tilt Poker

Phil Gordon learned to play poker from his Aunt Lib. He says: "My sister and I would visit her house in Columbia, South Carolina every summer for literally months on end. Almost every night, we'd gather around the kitchen table to play penny-ante Five-Card Draw."

At 15, he entered college with a National Merit Scholarship and at 20 he graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a degree in computer science. Because he had... Read more >>

Trivia

Helps raise money for cancer research through the "The Bad Beat on Cancer" initiative
Former host of Bravo/NBC's "Celebrity Poker Showdown"
Author of several works, including the Little Book series
Graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology
Former software engineer

Recent Tournament Placings

Tournament	Place	Winnings
2007 WSOP, Event 40, Mixed Hold'em (Limit/No-Limit)	15th	$7,309
2007 WSOP, Event 35, No-Limit Hold'em	28th	$16,989
2006 WSOPC, Harrah's New Orleans	4th	$116,697
2007 Special, NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship	9th	$25,000
2006 WSOP, Event 21, No-Limit Hold'em Short-Handed 6/table	16th	$14,467
2006 WSOP, Event 14, No-Limit Hold'em w/re-buys	56th	$4,636
2006 WSOP, Event 4, Limit Hold'em	42nd	$5,831
2006 WSOP, Event 2, No-Limit Hold'em	46th	$9,094
2005 WSOP, Event 16, $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout	3rd	$75,350
2005 WSOP, Event 11, $2,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em	27th	$4,970
2005 WSOP, Event 7, $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em w/Re-buys	8th	$66,055
2001 WSOP, World Series of Poker Main Event - 2001	4th	$399,610