Amato Galasso, a budding professional poker player, is from Ridgewood, New Jersey. His poker career had an excellent start when he outlasted a field of an incredible 2038 players to finish as the runner-up in Event 47 No-Limit Hold’em at the 38th Annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) in June 2007. In this event, which took place at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, and had a prize pool of a whopping $3,709,272, he bagged a staggering $448,808 in prize money. In September 2007, Amato Galasso secured a respectable eleventh-place finish among 195 players in Event 6 No-Limit at the Borgata Poker Open of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Event – Season 6. He won $1,706 in this event, which had a prize pool of $97,500.
On November 2, 2007, Amato Galasso earned $3,590 in the No-Limit Hold’em event at the World Poker Finals of the WPT Event Season 6 held at the Foxwoods Resort Casino. In this event, which had 412 players and a prize pool of $552,415, Amato Galasso finished nineteenth.
In June 2008, Amato Galasso came sixty-sixth in Event 21 No-Limit Hold’em at the 39th WSOP and took home $9,619. This tournament was held at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino and saw 731 participants vie for the title. At the same casino, in the following month, Amato Galasso walked away with a decent sum of $11,562 in Event 38 Pot-Limit Hold’em at the 39th WSOP by finishing fourteenth.
His ranking in WSOP 2007 Money List was 55 and in 2008, it is 1327. His Player of the Year (POY) rank in 2007 was 308, while his POY winnings were $454,104.