It is evident from his career that beneath this harsh image is his extraordinary instinct and intelligence or the game of poker which makes him stand apart from millions of other co players. Phil is the record holder of the maximum number of poker tournaments won till date and his prize winning till the end of year 2007 summed up to an astonishing ten million dollars.

Besides a professional poker player Phil has also other businesses and he is a keen writer of several books and maintains a website of his own. Phil has known to outperform in every WSOP Bracelet event from the year 1989 to 2007. And some of his prized cash is mentioned below for each year.

• $10k NL Holdem Main Event – $755,000 in NL Holdem Main Event, 1989
• $188,000 in Limit Holdem, 1992
• $138,000 in $1.5k Limit Holdem, 1993
• $161,400 in $2.5k No Limit Holdem, 1993
• $173,000 in $5k No-Limit Holdem, 1993
• $204,000 in $3k Pot-Limit Holdem, 1997
• $316,000 in $2k No-Limit Holdem, 2001
• $171,400 in $2.5k Limit Holdem, 2003
• $410,680 in $3k No-limit Holdem, 2003
• $631,863 in $1k + Rebuy No-Limit Holdem, 2006
• $637,254 in $1.5k No Limit Holdem, 2007

The above list of titles speaks a lot about the skill of this extraordinary player and his vague table etiquettes have arguably worked in the favor of poker game by popularizing it further.