Philipp Gruissem

Philipp Gruissem
Philipp Gruissem (2014)
Personal information
Date of birth	January 30, 1987
place of birth	Krefeld
Nicknames 0	philbortPokerStars, Full Tilt Poker & partypoker phil_gruissemTeam partypoker
place of residence	Malta
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money	0$ 1,379,840
Total prize money	$ 11,505,780
World Series of Poker
Bracelets	no
Cashes	10
Best main event	28th ( 2011 )
Main Event of the World Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	1
Main event of the European Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	6th
Main Event of party poker Live
title	no
Cashes	5
Last updated: April 15, 2020

Philipp Alexander "Phil" Gruissem (born January 30, 1987 in Krefeld ) is a professional German poker player .

Personal

Gruissem comes from Krefeld . He studied mechanical engineering at RWTH Aachen . Gruissem lived for a time in London and now in Malta . Together with Liv Boeree and Igor Kurganow , he founded the charity project Raising for Effective Giving, which is based on the principles of effective altruism , in early July 2014 .

Poker career

Career

Gruissem has been playing online on the platforms PokerStars , Full Tilt Poker and partypoker under the nickname philbort since July 2007 . At the 2017 World Championship of Online Poker , he won a tournament on PokerStars with a prize money of around 75,000 US dollars . Overall, he has online tournament winnings of over $ 3.5 million. Gruissem now belongs to the partypoker team and uses the nickname phil_gruissem there . Since 2009 he has also been taking part in renowned live tournaments.

In July 2011 he was successful for the first time at the World Series of Poker in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and reached the 28th place out of 6865 players at the main event . He was the second best German behind the winner Pius Heinz and won prize money of over 240,000 US dollars. At the end of August 2011, Gruissem won a tournament on the European Poker Tour (EPT) in Barcelona with a prize money of 234,500 euros . About a month later, he also won the EPT high roller event in London, collecting the equivalent of around 700,000 US dollars. In mid-April 2013 , Gruissem won the high roller tournament of the World Series of Poker Asia Pacific in Melbourne . But he prevailed against 43 other players, but received no bracelet for the victory, as the event was not on the regular tournament schedule . At the end of October 2013 he secured victory at the Alpha8 event as part of the World Poker Tour in London with prize money equivalent to just under 1.4 million US dollars. Less than three weeks later, he also won the Alpha8 on St. Kitts for another $ 1.1 million. At the beginning of May 2014 Gruissem was successful at the high roller event as part of the EPT Grand Final in Monte-Carlo and received prize money of almost one million euros for the victory. At the beginning of May 2017 he won the Eight Max Shot Clock of the PokerStars Championship in Monte-Carlo and received a prize of almost 500,000 euros.

In total, Gruissem has earned more than 11.5 million US dollars with poker in live tournaments , making him one of the most successful German poker players . From April to December 2016 Gruissem acted as manager of the Berlin Bears in the Global Poker League and reached the final with his team.

Prize money overview

year	Prize money (in $ )	Tournament victories
2009	00.038,608	1
2010	00,000.000	-
2011	01,589,880	2
2012	01,752,950	-
2013	04,646,124	4th
2014	01,485,102	1
2015	00.255.829	1
2016	00.416.393	-
2017	00.846.754	1
2018	00.254,692	-
2019	00.210,956	-
2020	00.00.8500	-
total	11,505,780	10

Web links

Commons : Philipp Gruissem  - Collection of Images

• Philipp Gruissem in the Hendon Mob Poker Database (English)
• Philipp Gruissem in the database of the Global Poker Index (English)
• Philipp Gruissem in the database of the World Series of Poker (English)
• Philipp Gruissem in the PocketFives database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ EPT10 Barcelona ME total players , accessed on May 22, 2015 (English, xls).
2. ↑ "Vegas sucks your energy out" on sport1.de from May 27, 2014, accessed on May 22, 2015.
3. ↑ Q&A With Poker Super High Roller Extraordinaire Philipp Gruissem on cardplayer.com from January 23, 2014, accessed on June 1, 2018 (English).
4. ↑ Fabian Quoss - Wycofany zwycięzca ( Memento from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on poker24.pl from January 20, 2015, accessed on February 28, 2016 (Polish).
5. ↑ Philipp Gruissem in the database of the Global Poker Index, accessed on May 22, 2015 (English).
6. ↑ Liv Boeree: “It's time to give something back” ( Memento from May 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on pokerzeit.com from October 21, 2014, accessed on May 4, 2017.
7. ↑ PokerStars WCOOP Results Day 15: Philipp Gruissem wins the $ 215 rebuy on pokernews.com on September 18, 2017, accessed on September 18, 2017.
8. ↑ philbort in the PocketFives database, accessed on September 7, 2016 (English).
9. ↑ Philipp Gruissem - Team partypoker on partypoker.com, accessed on May 19, 2018.
10. ↑ ^{a b} Philipp Gruissem in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 28, 2016 (English).
11. ↑ 42nd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2011 ($ 10,000 World Championship - No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 28, 2016 (English).
12. ↑ EPT - 8 - Barcelona (€ 10,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - Single Reload) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on September 7, 2016 (English).
13. ↑ EPT - 8 - UKIPT - 2 - London (£ 20,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed September 7, 2016.
14. ↑ World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific (WSOP APAC) (A $ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller Rebuy) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on September 7, 2016.
15. ↑ WPT Alpha8 - London (£ 100,000 No Limit Hold'em - WPT Alpha8) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed September 7, 2016.
16. ↑ WPT Alpha8 - Saint Kitts ($ 97,000 + 3,000 No Limit Hold'em - WPT Alpha8) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed September 7, 2016.
17. ↑ EPT - 10 - FPS - 4 - Grand Final (€ 25,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller 8 Max) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on September 7, 2016 (English).
18. ↑ PokerStars Championship presented by Monte-Carlo Casino (€ 25,500 No Limit Hold'em - Eight Max Shot Clock (Event 47)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 3, 2017 (English).
19. ↑ Berlin Bears on the Global Poker League website, accessed on May 12, 2016 (English).