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Philip Hilm - from broke to professional poker player

April 24, 2020 Mats Andersson / Philip Hilm Season 2 Episode 7
Philip Hilm - from broke to professional poker player
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Philip Hilm - from broke to professional poker player
Apr 24, 2020 Season 2 Episode 7
Mats Andersson / Philip Hilm


In this weeks episode Mats sits down with his Nordic friend, Philip Hilm from Denmark and talk about Philip's exciting life and career as a professional poker player. 

We'll hear the story about a young Danish man who as a kid didn't naturally read the social cues between people and then spent a lot of energy and time to learn everything about it and when he was in his twenties he was broke and doing small jobs and decided to give poker a go and he became a professional poker player with an outstanding merit lists of which to mention only a few are:

Final table (9th) WSOP Main Event 2007
(15th) EPT Grand Final Monte Carlo 2007
Final table (4th) EPT Copenhagen 2006
Won (1st) WCP III Barcelona 2006
Won (1st) Sunday Million online tournament 2006

 Philip tells us how it is to be a professional poker player and why he left the scene to let construct 150 houses in Poland. 

He'll teach us what to look for at your opponents body and body language when playing poker and why he had to put a face mask on 10 years before it was mandatory in Prague (due Corona) when he went down to the local Casino. 

He talks about his current projects trying to master the Poker game by developing a "machine" that can master the game and he tells us how he apprehend and live the Corona virus crisis and fear that is spreading in society. 

You'll also hear how Philip saved a friend from the Scientology church by using his analytical and logic thinking. 

Listen to a very smart man with an unusual career that is almost like a fairy tale! 

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Show Notes


In this weeks episode Mats sits down with his Nordic friend, Philip Hilm from Denmark and talk about Philip's exciting life and career as a professional poker player. 

We'll hear the story about a young Danish man who as a kid didn't naturally read the social cues between people and then spent a lot of energy and time to learn everything about it and when he was in his twenties he was broke and doing small jobs and decided to give poker a go and he became a professional poker player with an outstanding merit lists of which to mention only a few are:

Final table (9th) WSOP Main Event 2007
(15th) EPT Grand Final Monte Carlo 2007
Final table (4th) EPT Copenhagen 2006
Won (1st) WCP III Barcelona 2006
Won (1st) Sunday Million online tournament 2006

 Philip tells us how it is to be a professional poker player and why he left the scene to let construct 150 houses in Poland. 

He'll teach us what to look for at your opponents body and body language when playing poker and why he had to put a face mask on 10 years before it was mandatory in Prague (due Corona) when he went down to the local Casino. 

He talks about his current projects trying to master the Poker game by developing a "machine" that can master the game and he tells us how he apprehend and live the Corona virus crisis and fear that is spreading in society. 

You'll also hear how Philip saved a friend from the Scientology church by using his analytical and logic thinking. 

Listen to a very smart man with an unusual career that is almost like a fairy tale! 

Support the Show.