World Poker Tour
Phan cashed nine times on the World Poker Tour (WPT) making the final table in three of them, one was at the $25,000 WPT Championship of season 3, receiving $518,920 for finishing in fourth place above Hollink, Phil Ivey, Joe Beevers, Chris Ferguson and Juha Helppi. and the other was at the $9,600 No Limit Hold'em WPT season 6 event at the 2008 Bay 101 Shooting Stars where he finished 6th, earning $135,000. In July 2008 Phan made another WPT final table finishing in fifth place at the Bellagio Cup IV, earning $193,915
On the WPT seventh season, Phan won his first WPT title after defeating well known online player Amit “Amak316″ Makhija during heads-up play, winning the WPT bracelet and over $1.1 million at the Legends of Poker held at The Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California.
On February 26, 2012, while playing at the L.A. Poker Classic, Phan was eliminated in controversial fashion. While in a hand with another player who had moved all in, Phan requested the "all in" button from the dealer, and while playing with it, dropped it in an area that is reserved for live chips. The tournament director, Matt Savage, ruled this was an all in despite heated disagreement from Phan. As the ultimate authority on rules violations, Savage's ruling was final, and Phan was forced to call, and was eliminated. This is notable not because of the incident, but because Phan has requested the all in button so frequently in an attempt to gain advantage that Tournament Director Savage instituted a rule forbidding such conduct, and named it "the John Phan rule".
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