Born in 1964, on July 16th, Phil Hellmuth is a professional poker player from the United States. He currently holds the number one spot for the number of WSOP bracelets won, with a total of 11. He is also one of the Main Event winners, thanks to his victory from 1989, when he was just 24 years old. He is also considered a temperamental player, hence the nickname “The Poker Brat”. He currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

Besides his 11 bracelets, he also has 75 money finishes at the WSOP, and 11 money finishes at the World Poker Tour, with 3 final tables. All the bracelets won by Phil Hellmuth at WSOP come from playing Texas Hold’em.

He has a number of poker instructional videos released, poker books and plenty of articles in the Cardplayer magazine. A few of the books written by him are Poker Brat, The Greatest Hands ever Player and Play Poker like the Pros.