Poker Pro Phil Hellmuth Is Rich

One of the fastest growing job occupations in th entire world is a professional poker player. With poker´s popularity being at an all time high, more and more people are trying to jump on the cash bandwagon of poker in dreams of become the next million dollar winner. Several people make it every year to the profession ranks, however, most fail to reach that level. One of the mainstays in this profession and quite possibly the best Texas Hold Em´ player in the world is Phil Hellmuth.

Phil Hellmuth is one of the richest professional poker players because he is simply the smartest poker player there is. Phil currently holds the record for the most World Series of Poker bracelets at eleven. Each bracelet represents winning a certain tournament at the WSOP. His earnings from this have garnered him five point six million dollars. In addition to these winnings, he has also won about six hundred thousand dollars on the World Poker Tour and has made an estimated nine point six million in live poker winnings. With all this money to throw around, Phil has enough money to spend on both poker an other things as well.

As the game of poker rapidly grows, the best main poker players are now being strapped with the celebrity title. As the celebrity status of Phil Hellmuth rises ever so steadily, so do his endorsement deals. Phil is the main face of PokerStars.com, the world´s biggest online poker room and lobby. Forbes.com also recently reported that Phil Hellmuth now endorses Raketracker.com, another online poker room. This is significant because Phil earns a good chunk of change from not only these online gambling rooms but also his main sponsor, UltimateBet.com.

All these different sponsors not only pay Phil money to endorse their site, but they also pay for his tournament buy ins as well. Considering most buy ins are thousands of dollars, it can be a good way to save some pocket cash for Phil. When he wins these events, he wins multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars. Basically Phil plays poker for free and when he wins, he wins a lot of money.

Phil Hellmuth definitely qualifies as being rich. He plays the game he loves so much and makes millions of dollars doing so. He is arguably the best Texas Holdem´ Player of all time and his multi million dollar winnings reflect this.