Full Tilt Poker Championship Bagged by Phil Gordon

On Thanksgiving Day, 7 poker players, 6 professionals and 1 amateur online qualifier, battled heads-on for the $1 million prize pool at the Full Tilt Poker.net Championship held at the Red Rock Resort and Casino.

Phil Gordon, renowned television host, best-selling author, and member of Team Full Tilt, dominated the event and bagged first place. Gordon pocketed $600,000 from the event.

Meanwhile, another member of Team Full Tilt, Roland de Wolfe, placed second. De Wolfe bagged $275,000 in the process.

Other members of Team Full Tilt present at the event were erick lindgren, John Juanda, and allen cunningham, as well as Full Tilt Poker pro toto leonidas.

Champion phil gordon is known as the co-host of Bravo's "Celebrity Poker Showdown". He is also currently hosting ESPN's "Pro Am Equalizer", a new show that will debut in January of 2007.

Aside from being a TV personality, Gordon has a number of bestsellers under his belt. He wrote "Poker: The Real Deal," "Phil Gordon's Little Green Book," and the newly released "Phil Gordon's Little Blue Book."

Part of Gordon's win from the recently concluded poker tournament will go to the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation's Bad Beat on Cancer initiative.

January 02, 2007
Michael Orwell