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Paul Phillips (born August 9, 1972 in San Francisco, California
California

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) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 professional poker
Poker

Poker is a family of card game that share betting rules and usually List of poker hands. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bets and how many rounds of betting are allowed....
 player, although he has mostly become inactive in recent years, choosing to focus on Scrabble
Scrabble

Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15-by-15 grid....
 tournaments.

lips wrote the Boa
Boa (web server)

Boa is an open source, small-footprint web server that is suitable for embedded applications. Originally written by Paul Phillips , it is now maintained by Larry Doolittle and Jon Nelson....
 web server while attending the University of California, San Diego
University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego is a public research university in San Diego, California, California. The school's campus contains 694 buildings and is located in the La Jolla, San Diego, California community....
, but no longer maintains it. In 1994, one of his colleagues at college
College

File:Government college for Women Dhoke Kala Khan.JPGCollege is a term most often used today to denote an education institution. More broadly, it can be the name of any group of collegialitys, for example, an electoral college, a College of Arms or the College of Cardinals....
 discovered he had an interest in blackjack
Blackjack

Blackjack is the most widely played casino game banking game in the world. Much of blackjack's popularity is due to the mix of chance with elements of skill, and the publicity that surrounds card counting ....
 and subsequently introduced him to poker.

In 1996 he became Chief Technical Officer for Go2Net.






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Paul Phillips (born August 9, 1972 in San Francisco, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 professional poker
Poker

Poker is a family of card game that share betting rules and usually List of poker hands. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bets and how many rounds of betting are allowed....
 player, although he has mostly become inactive in recent years, choosing to focus on Scrabble
Scrabble

Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15-by-15 grid....
 tournaments.

Programming

Phillips wrote the Boa
Boa (web server)

Boa is an open source, small-footprint web server that is suitable for embedded applications. Originally written by Paul Phillips , it is now maintained by Larry Doolittle and Jon Nelson....
 web server while attending the University of California, San Diego
University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego is a public research university in San Diego, California, California. The school's campus contains 694 buildings and is located in the La Jolla, San Diego, California community....
, but no longer maintains it. In 1994, one of his colleagues at college
College

File:Government college for Women Dhoke Kala Khan.JPGCollege is a term most often used today to denote an education institution. More broadly, it can be the name of any group of collegialitys, for example, an electoral college, a College of Arms or the College of Cardinals....
 discovered he had an interest in blackjack
Blackjack

Blackjack is the most widely played casino game banking game in the world. Much of blackjack's popularity is due to the mix of chance with elements of skill, and the publicity that surrounds card counting ....
 and subsequently introduced him to poker.

In 1996 he became Chief Technical Officer for Go2Net. This success is the basis of his nickname Dot-com
Dot-com

Dot com may refer to:*.com , the generic top-level domain used on the Internet's Domain Name System*dot-com company, a company which does most of its business on the Internet...
.

Poker

Phillips is known as a controversial figure in the poker world. He was banned from competing in the World Series of Poker
World Series of Poker

The World Series of Poker is the "the oldest, largest, most prestigious, and most media-hyped gaming competition in the world". It is held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada....
 (WSOP) in the early 2000s due to comments he made about the way in which the Horseshoe
Binion's Horseshoe

Binion's Horseshoe, also known as the Horseshoe Casino or simply The Horseshoe, was a hotel and casino located in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada on what is now the Fremont Street Experience....
 split entry money between players and casino
Casino

A casino is, in the modern sense of the word, a facility that houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities. Casinos are most commonly built near or combined with hotels, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships and other tourist attractions....
 employees. Despite being reinstated as a competitor in late 2001, he only played one event in 2002 (placing 2nd to John Juanda
John Juanda

Johnson "John" Juanda is an United States professional poker player based in Marina del Rey, California.Juanda lives in Los Angeles. He was born and raised in Indonesia but is Chinese Indonesian....
 in the $1,500 triple draw
Draw (poker)

A poker player is drawing if he has a hand that is incomplete and needs further cards to become valuable. The hand itself is called a draw or drawing hand....
 lowball Ace to Five
Lowball (poker)

Some forms of poker, often called lowball, sometimes called low poker, reward poor poker hands . There are four common variations on this idea, differing in whether aces are treated as high cards or low cards, and whether or not Rank of hands #Straights and Rank of hands #Flushes are used....
 event).

Phillips played no WSOP events in 2003, but took first and second place in two World Poker Tour
World Poker Tour

The World Poker Tour is a series of international poker tournaments featuring most of the world's professional players. It was started in the United States by attorney/television producer Steven Lipscomb, who now serves as CEO of WPT Enterprises , the firm that controls the World Poker Tour....
 (WPT) events. In the event that he finished 2nd, he made a deal with his opponent (Mel "Silver Fox" Judah
Mel Judah

Mel Judah is an Australian professional poker player, also known as "The Silver Fox" . He learned poker at the age of 14 by watching his father play 5-card draw....
) which was subsequently covered by Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated is an United States sports magazine owned by Mass media conglomerate Time Warner. It has over 3 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men, 19% of the adult males in the United States....
 in an unfavorable light. Because of this, the WPT banned players from making deals in its tournaments. Despite choosing not to play in the WSOP, Phillips finished 2nd in the 2003 Tournament Poker Money List.

In 2004 he made three WSOP final tables (one in Omaha hi-lo split and two in no limit
Betting (poker)

In the game of poker, the play largely centers around the act of gambling, and as such, a protocol has been developed to speed play, lessen confusion, and increase security while playing....
 hold'em.)

He spoke out against the inclusion of Phil Hellmuth Jr
Phil Hellmuth

Phillip J. Hellmuth, Jr. is an United States professional poker player. He is best known for holding a record eleven World Series of Poker bracelets, for winning the Main Event of the 1989 World Series of Poker and for his "poker brat" personality....
, Doyle "Texas Dolly" Brunson
Doyle Brunson

Doyle F. Brunson is an iconic American professional poker player who has played professionally for over 50 years. He is the first two-time World Series of Poker main event champion to win consecutively, a Poker Hall of Fame inductee, and the author of several highly influential books on poker....
 and Johnny "Oriental Express" Chan
Johnny Chan (poker player)

Johnny Chan , born in Guangzhou , People's Republic of China in 1957, now living in Las Vegas, Nevada) is a professional poker player....
 in the 2005 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions
World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions

The World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions was an invitational freeroll poker event. Wins in this event do not count as official World Series of Poker bracelet, but the winner receives a large trophy in the shape of the official World Series of Poker logo....
, and subsequently became the subject of message board flame wars
Flaming

Flaming is a hostile and insulting interaction between Internet users. Flaming usually occurs in the social context of a discussion board, Internet Relay Chat or even through e-mail....
.

Phillips has played in both of the first two National Heads-Up Poker Championship
National Heads-Up Poker Championship

The National Heads-Up Poker Championship is an annual poker tournament held in the United States and produced by the NBC television network. It is a $20,000 buy-in invitation-only tournament organized as a series of one-on-one games of betting hold'em matches....
s, losing in second round play both years.

As of 2008, his total live tournament winnings exceed $2,300,000.

Personal life

Phillips is married with two daughters, and has not played as many poker tournaments since 2005 to spend more time with his family. Phillips and his family recently relocated from Colorado
Colorado

The State of Colorado is a U.S. state located in the Mountain States of the United States of America. Colorado may also be considered to be a part of the Western United States and Southwestern United States regions of the United States....
 to Bend, Oregon
Bend, Oregon

Bend is the county seat of Deschutes County, Oregon, Oregon, United States, and the principal city of the Bend, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area....
.

Phillips is also active amongst internet
Internet

The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers, enabling users to share information along multiple channels. Typically, a computer that connects to the Internet can access information from a vast array of available server and other computers by moving information from them to the computer's local memory....
 bulletin boards, plays tournament Scrabble
Scrabble

Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15-by-15 grid....
 and enjoys listening to They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants

They Might Be Giants is a Grammy Award-winning Music of the United States alternative rock band which began as a duo of John Flansburgh and John Linnell, and currently also includes Marty Beller, Dan Miller , and Danny Weinkauf....
.

External links

  • on livejournal
    LiveJournal

    LiveJournal is a virtual community where Internet users can keep a blog, journal or diary. LiveJournal is also the name of the free software and open source software Server software that was designed to run the LiveJournal virtual community....