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Paul PhillipsScrabble and Poker PlayerPaul Phillips was a professional poker player before leaving the gambling world to become a competitive tournament level Scrabble player. |
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 Paul Phillips is a noted professional poker player
and Scrabble player. Though Paul Phillips is best known for his
career as a professional Texas Holdem player, he has semi-retired
from poker to focus on Scrabble. To date, Paul Phillips plays in
second and third division Scrabble tournaments, but hopes to become
a top level player.Paul Phillips writes a blog about his experiences in the poker and Scrabble worlds, specifically discussing the difficulty of mastering a word game like Scrabble. Reading Paul Phillips's blog is possible therapy for other Scrabble players struggling to break into the circuit. Poker RoguePaul Phillips was a controversial poker player, due to his criticisms of the way top level poker tournaments were organized. The first time Paul Phillips's outspoken nature revealed itself was his criticism of the Horsheshoe Casino in Las Vegas, due to the way it split the entry fees between players and casino employees. The second incident came when the 2005 World Series of Poker included Johnny Chan, Doyle Brunson and Phil Hellmuth Jr. in its Tournament of Champions event. The Tournament of Champions is meant for the players who won an event at that particular WSOP. Chan, Brunson and Hellmuth had not won an event at the 2005 World Series of Poker. The three shared the record for most events won over a career at the WSOP, so Paul Phillips was speaking about the casino breaking its own rules to let "star" players into their event. Paul Phillips has 1 victory on the World Poker Tour and 8 final tables at the World Series of Poker. He has won over $2,300,000 playing poker in his career. Since 2004, though, Paul Phillips has been inactive in the world of poker, instead focusing on raising a family and his newfound passion for Scrabble. Paul Phillips BioPaul Phillips was born in 1972 in San Francisco. He attended the University of California at San Diego, which is where Phillips discovered his love of blackjack and poker. These days, Paul Phillips and his family life in Colorado, though they lived in Oregon in the years prior. Phillips has a wife and young daughter. Paul Phillips is one of the most accessible poker and Scrabble players, because he is active in a number of internet bulletin boards and message boards. Phillips wrote for the Boa web server and was the chief technical officer of the GO2NEt in the 1990's. Paul Phillips and ScrabbleAt the moment, Paul Phillips remains a relatively obscure name in the Scrabble world. Due to his notoreity in other gaming communinities and his competitive nature, it should be interesting to track Paul Phillips' career in the world of Scrabble.
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