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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National Heads-Up Championship - Phil Ivey vs Alisha KunzeSuperstar Phil Ivey takes on special qualifier Alisha Kunze in the first round of the 2008 National Heads-Up Championship at Caesa...
9 years ago8,473ThePokerAces,Published 9 years ago
Negreanu 55 vs Dwan 99 vs Ivey 1010 - Aussie Millions 2014Big 3 way hand during the Aussie Millions 2014 between Negreanu, Dwan and Phil Ivey.
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Negreanu vs Dan Smith while Ivey is Distracted by FansDaniel Negreanu gets in an important pot against Dan Smith, while Phil Ivey is distracted by some very loyal fans
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Old Rivals Going at it - Ivey vs AntoniusPatrik Antonius and Phil Ivey outplaying each other
9 years ago11,034BestPokerVids,Published 9 years ago
One of the Sickest Plays by Phil IveyPhil Ivey had many great moments, but this one is in top three
8 years ago5,496BestPokerVids,Published 8 years ago
Online High Stakes - Isildur1 and Phil Ivey TanglingPhil Ivey and Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom tangling in the $450,000 pot
His relatively new website provides lots of information for poker players to improve their game and Paul Phua continues with that theme by sitting down with Phil Ivey.
The adrenaline-fuelled poker days which saw massive pots against his fellow nosebleed legends may be over for Phil – but he still loves the game.
Paul Phua brings us the world’s best pros sitting on our shoulder handing out tips and advice. The first in his ‘Tips from the Pros’ videos features Ivey, Cates and Colman!
The first ever €111,111 One Drop High Roller to be played in Europe is selling out fast as more than half the seats have already been filled.
Daniel Negreanu takes us into the PokerStars Shark Cage to analyze a hand between Phil Ivey and Jennifer Shahade.
Ivey has now been granted one final appeal in the Supreme Court, the last gasp left between him and having to give up on his arguably ill-gotten gains barring, perhaps, the intervention of HRH.
Which one of these stars of poker will go home with the $1 million prize? Watch and see.
The hand between two of poker's best players was analyzed on the latest episode of "Poker Hands With Doug Polk."
Let’s take a look at some of the most ridiculous purchases of the poker millionaires club!
It was never going to be easy to get Phil Ivey to return the almost $10million winnings from his now infamous Borgata baccarat case.
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