High stakes pro Phil Galfond, founder of Run It Once Poker is getting challenged yet again in his Galfond Challange series. This time it’s the controversial former hedge fund manager Bill Perkins who is trying his luck in this wild high stakes game. The Challenge is played at €100/€200 PLO over a total of 50,000 hands or until either one of the players has lost a total of €400,000. Clearly these mind blowing stakes were not enough for the gamblners, seeing as they also agreed on a massive side bet where Galfond needs to pay up $1,000,000 if ending as the loser. Perkins on the other hand, gets a bit of a handicap with only having to put up $250,000 if he finishes last of the two.

The match will be played out over at partypoker but the exact date and time is yet to be announced.

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1. We all know that Phil Hellmuth loses his cool very quickly and Bill Perkins loves to needle his opponents. They face off again in Season 2 of The Big Game.
2. Check out the latest promo on Run It Once Poker: Greenback, where Phil will send back a chunk of his wins to the players on RIO! Day 1 After Galfond opened up winning some pots, Perkins took the.
3. Bill Perkins was born in 1969 and is a film producer, hedge fund manager and amateur poker player. Even though he studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Iowa, he always wanted to start his own company. He studied intensively for many years, and he started his first company back in 1997.

Bill Perkins was born in New Jersey back in 1969 and had a very succesful carrier as a hedge fund manager before entering the poker scene. While Perkins should be considered the clear underdog in the match, he is far from an amateur. Last year Bill managed his way all the way to the 6th place in Triton Million for Charity event in London, cashing in a a total of £2,200,000.

Perkins said: “All my life I’ve been attacking challenging situations and this one seems to be the most formidable in quite some time. Not only does Phil have strategic knowledge, he has heart and mental fortitude. I look forward to playing the role of underdog.

The Galfond Challange

The side action and stoploss for the Galfond Challange differs depending on the opponent that Phil Galfond is facing. The stakes however have been the same in both the previous challange as well as the upcoming announced ones. In his opening match, Phil took on “Venividi1993” in a real roller coaster game. Phil, who at one point saw himself down over €900,000 ended up ahead to secure a tidy €1,472.08. Seeing as the side action for this match was €200,000 vs €100,000, its safe to say the extra €100,000 made it worth Phils time in the end.

Galfond said: “This challenge is different to my others because of the $400,000 finish line. A lot of people are expecting me to win this one, but they shouldn’t underestimate Bill or the swings of PLO. Anything can happen.”

The challange can as always be railed through the partypoker-client, or live stread over at Twitch.tv/RunItOncePoker

Bill Perkins was born in 1969 and is a film producer, hedge fund manager and amateur poker player. Even though he studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Iowa, he always wanted to start his own company. He studied intensively for many years, and he started his first company back in 1997. Since then he always had the spirit and the desire to go further in his career and business, while still keeping his humility and common sense.

He used his knowledge in various fields and was passionate about personal growth, so he managed to go way further than other companies in the same market. Later on in 2002, after gaining ten years of experience in the industry of energy trading, he joined the management of Centaurus Energy because he really loved venture capital and energy management. The time spent here was very productive and successful for both himself and the company, and it lasted until 2012 when the company was closed.

Bill Perkins then focused on funds specialized in trading natural gas. It is said that one hedge fund launched by him raised 102 million dollars, which is a lot…but still under the amount that Bill planned – between 300 and 600 million dollars.

He also really loves to play poker and he is very appreciated by fans of this game. He spent a lot of the money earned from hedge funds into playing poker and becoming better and better, and he eventually got to the point of playing high stakes games. His alias in the poker world is Gastrader and he is known for solid prop bets and tournaments with high buy-ins.

Phil Perkins Poker

He always surrounded himself with professional players, so that he can learn and become better. Since he has a fortune consisting of 9 figures, he could afford to learn the hard way, by losing lots of money. So far he made around 2.6 million dollars from live tournaments, but probably the amount he lost and paid in entry fees over time is much bigger than that.

He also likes to bet and made quite some unusual bets over time. One of them was when he bet Dan Bilzerian $600,000 that he couldn’t ride a bike from Los Angeles to Las Vegas in 48 hours. Even though they had some arguments regarding the length of the trip, Bilzerian eventually completed the ride in 33 hours.

Phil Perkins Poker

As mentioned before, Bill Perkins also has a career in movie production. Some of his films include Afterlife, Unthinkable and the Cat Run. He also owns a yacht from where he usually streams poker games on his Twitch channel. By combining all of his earnings from business and poker, we can estimate that Bill Perkins Net Worth in 2019 is that of around $400 million.