Phil Ivey’s Top 5 Poker Moments

Remember High Stakes Poker that started to be televised all those years ago? The programme that brought life to poker and showed the elites of the game battled it out for thousands and even millions of dollars! Well one of those elites is Phil Ivey, the number one online cash winner, the guy who was nicknamed ‘No Home Jerome’ because he was never out of the casino. It’s time we took a look into his biggest tv moments.

Starting it off, we have the near million dollar pot ($807k) against other high stakes legend Patrik Antonius. This one starts off unfortunate for Antonius, who ends up on the wrong side of a cooler and is stacked. You can’t get away from this when you’re against Ivey and the cameras are on!



However Ivey’s seen his side of the coolers in the past versus some of the best, take Eli Elezra for example. Here we see back to back hands where Elezra takes over $500k from Ivey.



But Phil Ivey is more than just a one trick pony. Regarded recently in an online poll by many poker fans, his name in particular was voted at the top of list for best player ever - and there are a number of reasons why. Mainly it is due to his versatility in a number of formats, in 2014 and 2015, Phil Ivey won back to back aussie millions tournaments for a total of $5 million. Here he is beating Patrik Antonius, heads up, for the title and a whopping $2 million.



Another huge statement for Ivey as talked about before was his no.1 spot on the online cash winnings, where he is up to something over $20 million profit, a significant amount more than the next player. Unfortunately we are not able to see all the pots that occurred back in these majestic days. However there are some old clips from where these guys battled for 6 figures sometimes at the great game of Pot Limit Omaha. Here is an insane pot played against Isildur from back in the day.



Last but not least, the most devastating cooler between Tom Dwan and Phil Ivey for the biggest televised pot from High Stakes Poker, straight over straight. This one was sure to bring emotions out and even Phil Ivey feels the wrath of this one!