Biography
Phil Ivey, real name Phillip Dennis Ivey Jr. is widely regarded as one of the best poker players to ever grace this earth. His massive personality and phenomenal poker skills have taken him to the top of the poker world throughout the past 20 years. To try your hand at becoming one of the best, we suggest Carbon Poker for USA players. He was born in Riverside, California on Feburary 1st 1976, and started playing poker around his twenties were he got his first nickname "No Home Jerome" come from the ID he used to play at the local casino and later on he got the nickname "Tiger Woods of Poker".
It was from here Ivey started to hone his skills and slowly start to become noticed as a very scary opponent.
"The Corporation" vs Andrew Beal
Perhaps one of the most notable stories surrounding Ivey’s poker career is that of his Heads Up battle with billionaire banker Andrew Beal back in 2006. According to several reports around that time, Ivey and Beal played three days of poker against each other, with Ivey coming out on top with a cool $16.6m profit. This whole saga stemmed from an ongoing battle between Beal and several top players for many years before that, in which the players then decided to club together, coin themselves ‘The Corporation’ and take on Beal. It was also reported that the $16.6m win meant that ‘The Corporation’ had won back $10m they had lost to Beal previously and added the $6.6m to their bankroll as a whole.
World Series of Poker and World Poker Tour
Phil Ivey have had a glorious poker carrier having won ten World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets as well as one World Poker Tour (WPT) Final and also appearing nine times at the final table.
Awards
Ivey was named Poker Players of the Year by "All In Magazine" in 2005 and 2009
As TheHendonMob reports Phil Ivey has accumulated more than 23 million dollars from tournaments alone, and over $10m in online winnings. A big percentage of this money came from other regular high stakes players such as Patrik Antonius, Viktor Blom, and Tom Dwan.
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Four days with Phil IveyAn ESPN team follow Phil Ivey during four days of gambling and promotions.
8 years ago7,386BestPokerVids,Published 8 years ago
Gavin Smith - Amazing IveyPhil Ivey is just amazing
9 years ago4,220BestPokerVids,Published 9 years ago
Gavin Smith Silences the TableThe table suddenly goes silent after Gavin Smith's comment
10 years ago8,392Published 10 years ago
Great Hand Phil Ivey vs Elky PCA 2013Big hand between Elky and Ivey at the PCA 2013 as we sweat Phil Ivey
8 years ago48,458BestPokerVids,Published 8 years ago
Great Poker Moments - Have You Got Heart?Re-live some great moments in poker with some of the all-time stars such as Stu Ungar, Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmu...
8 years ago7,939BestPokerVids,Published 8 years ago
HSP - Ivey Attempts to Bluff VeldhuisPhil Ivey makes a big bluff attempt against Lex Veldhuis during a classic episode of High Stakes Poker
9 years ago5,325ThePokerAces,Published 9 years ago
HSP: Ivey's Kings Play Patrik's AcesPhil Ivey and Patrik Antonius playing a pot holding the two best starting hands in Hold'em
9 years ago15,400ThePokerAces,Published 9 years ago
HSP: Nuggets of Wisdom with Phil IveySome wise words from some of the best high stakes poker professionals like Phil Ivey
9 years ago64,646ThePokerAces,Published 9 years ago
HSP: Phil Ivey Felts HellmuthA classic High Stakes Poker hand - Phil Hellmuth is felted by Ivey in a rough cooler
Negreanu-Ivey bracelet bet was getting into the danger zone. The duo was slowly running out of tournaments to play, Negreanu had a couple shots but came short, and it seemed like Phil Ivey’s summer
The Borgata Casino admitted that disposing used casino playing cards is standard procedure and did so with regard to the Gemaco decks in the Phil Ivey edge sorting case.
As we slowly move away from the summer and into the autumn, the poker action will certainly heat up, and high stakes tables are unlikely to be an exception. Week before last saw Phil Ivey finally
American Poker AwardsThe American Poker Awards were the big story of the past week. A lot of familiar faces made their appearances, some walked away with prizes, some will have to wait the next award
Big:A;ccording to the article by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Phil Ivey is one of 26 people who will receive medical marijuana dispensary license in the near future. City council of Las Vegas spent
Phil Ivey gets another shot to appeal his £7.8million case with London's Crockford Casino
Big:D;escribing Phil Ivey as 'one of the best, if not the best, poker players in the world’ has gotten old. But there is hardly any other way to describe the man who has won and keeps winning
The millions on millions of poker hands that have taken place over the years have made this a very difficult article to write. Picking three sick bluffs is not tough, there are thousands, but the top three, well that's another story...
It was never going to be easy to get Phil Ivey to return the almost $10million winnings from his now infamous Borgata baccarat case.
Canadian poker legend Daniel Negreanu revealed who he thinks is the best NLHE player in the world currently.
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