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 ago24,341ThePokerAces,Published 9 years ago
Phil Ivey Showing Why He Is the BestTwo great hands with Phil Ivey
9 years ago11,676ThePokerAces,Published 9 years ago
Sharks Balling Out of ControlPhil Ivey, 'durrrr', Patrik Antonius and Daniel Negreanu in some crazy action
9 years ago5,285BestPokerVids,Published 9 years ago
Ziigmund and Ivey Play Big OnePhil Ivey faces a tough river decision against very aggressive Ilari 'Ziigmund' Sahamies
9 years ago12,502BestPokerVids,Published 9 years ago
Phil Ivey Soul Reads Tom DwanPhil Ivey makes a sick 5-bet preflop bluff vs Tom durrrr Dwan
9 years ago7,179ThePokerAces,Published 9 years ago
Legends Battling - Phil Ivey vs Tom DwanDurrrr puts Phil Ivey in a tough spot on the river
9 years ago18,974ThePokerAces,Published 9 years ago
Phil Ivey Owning SahamiesPhil Ivey takes Ziigmund to school
9 years ago3,882BestPokerVids,Published 9 years ago
Floating Like Ivey - Patrik OutplayedPhil Ivey with perfect feeling for where he is in a hand vs Patrik Antonius
9 years ago3,991BestPokerVids,Published 9 years ago
Eli Elezra Cracks Lederer's AcesEli Elezra takes a big one from Howard Lederer
9 years ago4,756BestPokerVids,Published 9 years ago
Chris Ferguson Gets ConfusedFunny: Chris Ferguson completely oblivious that the action is on him
9 years ago6,121BestPokerVids,Published 9 years ago
Welcome to the Ivey World JasonPhil Ivey picks up a huge bluff by Jason Mercier
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Paul Phua is inviting viewers and followers to prepare their own questions for the biggest names in the game.
Ivey and attorney Richard Spearman again attempted to win almost $10 million in cash that Ivey and a companion "earned" at the Punto Banco tables in 2012.
Phil Ivey and Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott were named as the 53rd and 54th inductees into the Poker Hall of Fame.
Viktor Blom seems to be back in the saddle playing $200/400 PLO and limit triple draw and Omaha eights-or-better at $1k/$2k limits.
It came as a huge shock last year when the $250,000 Aussie Millions Challenge failed to materialize, and this year it has been left out of the festival’s schedule entirely.
When it comes to poker, Finland has produced many of the finest online players in the game’s history.
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