Phil Hui

Phillip Hui, born on 17 November 1987, is an American professional poker player from San Antonio, Texas, and the winner of the 50,000 dollar Poker Players Championship at the 2019 World Series of Poker. He played golf at the University of Texas at San Antonio and professionally before turning to poker. At the 2014 WSOP he won his first bracelet in a 3,000 dollar Omaha Hi-Lo event for 286,000 dollars, in 2019 he defeated Josh Arieh heads-up to win the Poker Players Championship and its first prize of 1,099,311 dollars, the largest of his career, he won his third bracelet in the 1,500 dollar Pot Limit Omaha 8-Handed event in 2022, and his fourth at the 2024 WSOP in the 1,500 dollar H.O.R.S.E. event. As of 2023 he had live tournament winnings of almost 4 million dollars.