WSOP Bracelet Winner Sued Over Legal Fee Debts
WSOP bracelet winner Francois Safieddine is being sued for $236,000 by a Denver-based law firm which represented the poker player in two separate lawsuits.
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.
Official Website
Ivey LeagueWikipedia
Phil IveyWorld Series Of Poker
Phil IveyWorld Poker Tour
Phil IveyPublished 17 years ago
Patrik Antonius vs Phil IveyThis is a hand playd between Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey @ the 2006 Aussie Millions Cash Game
Published 17 years ago
Ivey vs the crock!Hand played b/t Phil Ivey and the Croc @ the 2006 Aussie Millions Cash Game
Published 17 years ago
Phil Ivey vs Eric LindgrenHand b/t Ivey and EDOG @ the 2006 Aussie Millions Cash Game
Published 17 years ago
Phil Ivey vs Masa Kagawahand b/t Phil Ivey and Masa Kagawa @ the 2006 Aussie Millions Cash Game
Published 17 years ago
Phil Ivey vs David Benyamine1st hand of the 2006 Aussie Millions Cash Game between Phil Ivey and David Benyamine
Published 16 years ago
Phil Ivey - Aussie Millions 2008Amanda Interviews Phil Ivey In The Aussie Millions 100K Event
Published 16 years ago
Interview with Phil Ivey from 2003Interview with Phil Ivey made during The Poker Superstars S01 2003.
Published 16 years ago
Phil Ivey First to Cross the Million Chip Mark at LAPCPhil Ivey looking to make his record setting 8th WPT Final Table... and this time he plans on winning.
Published 16 years ago
Phil Ivey’s 8th final tableKimberly Lansing of worldpokertour.coms Live Updates talks to Phil Ivey as he heads into his record setting 8th WPT Final Table......
WSOP bracelet winner Francois Safieddine is being sued for $236,000 by a Denver-based law firm which represented the poker player in two separate lawsuits.
The focus of the poker world shifts down South once again, as the Aussie Millions is returning to the Crown Casino in Melbourne on January 17th.
The movie is getting good coverage for its handling of the poker scenes it does contain. Much of that handling is down to poker pro David Paredes.
Chris Moneymaker hosted “poker boot camps” around the United States where he taught all levels, from absolute beginners to professionals.
According to durrrr they didn’t go Australia for the Aussie Millions - they are just there to watch some tennis.
Luke ‘_fullflush1_’ Schwartz tweeted a series of petty polls on Twitter, reigniting a long-standing feud between the poker pros.
Canadian poker legend Daniel Negreanu revealed who he thinks is the best NLHE player in the world currently.
Daniel Negreanu’s return to the top-flight of high-stakes tournament poker with an excellent run this week at the US Poker Open will have to be put on hold.
Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom’s call in the early hours of the morning to lift the partypoker MILLIONS Germany Main Event has to go down as the ‘Call of the Century’ so far.
It’s every player’s dream to head out to Vegas and return with jewellery, but poker-loving Suzie Williamson’s story had a unique twist to it.