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
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Phil Ivey
9 years ago51,757ThePokerAces,Published 9 years ago
Biggest Televised Pot - EverThe biggest televised pot in the history of poker between Tom Dwan and Phil Ivey
9 years ago4,395ThePokerAces,Published 9 years ago
Scotty Nguyen Finds Miracle River to Bust IveyIvey's Kings cracked on the river
9 years ago11,247ThePokerAces,Published 9 years ago
Ivey Shows How to Deal with CoolersPhil Ivey doubles up Scotty Nguyen as his middle set is no good
9 years ago68,765BestPokerVids,Published 9 years ago
Ivey and Others Talk about Phil HellmuthPhil Ivey and other fellow pros talking about Phil Hellmuth's behavior at the tables
9 years ago11,156ThePokerAces,Published 9 years ago
Isaac Haxton Walks into Ivey's TrapPhil Ivey spreads a trap and Ike Haxton walks right into it
9 years ago5,912BestPokerVids,Published 9 years ago
Ivey and Antonius Discussing Monster PotPhil Ivey and Patrik Antonius discussing a monster pot they've played against each other
9 years ago6,240BestPokerVids,Published 9 years ago
Aussie Millions 2015 - Phil Ivey vs the RestMr. Ivey's competition at this year's Aussie Millions
9 years ago24,661BestPokerVids,Published 9 years ago
Phil Ivey Thug LifeMess with the best, die like the rest - Phil Ivey
9 years ago4,313ThePokerAces,Published 9 years ago
Phil Ivey Powers Through Andy BlochJust Ivey being Ivey, winning another pot with the worse hand
9 years ago108,708ThePokerAces,Published 9 years ago
Phil on Phil Action - Ivey Valuetowns Hellmuth to OblivionPhil Hellmuth pays off three streets with super weak hand against Phil Ivey
Phil Ivey claims Atlantic City's Borgata Hotel Casino aims for an advantage on profits in whatever way possible including flirty waitresses and alcohol.
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.
Phil Ivey countersued the Borgata Casino over the edge sorting case, claiming that the cards utilized were destroyed by the casino, harming his defense against the allegations.
So far, Phil Ivey has been a no-show at the World Series of Poker 2015, skipping event the $50k Players' Championship
Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan reveal some information about a new game of poker they've been playing called Six Plus Hold'em.
Phil Ivey's edge-sorting partner, Cheung Yin Sun, had a lawsuit dismissed in Connecticut in which she and two others won over $1 million but didn't get paid.
Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan joined the number of distinguished Asian and world's businessman at the opening of the new poker club in Macau
Phil Ivey stars in a 30-second commercial for Chrysler that showcases successful Americans.
Phil Ivey appears in a new TV commercial for the 2015 Chrysler 300 that features successful Americans.
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