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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Best of the Best - Biggest Phil Ivey vs Tom Dwan ConfrontationsSeven of the biggest confrontations between Phil Ivey and Tom 'durrrr' Dwan
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Online High Stakes - Ziigmund and Phil Ivey Doing FlipsJust some standard $100k flips: Phil Ivey & Ilari 'Ziigmund' Sahamies
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Dan Cates Trying to Extract Value from Phil IveyDan Cates trying to get Phil Ivey to pay him off in a bit of a tricky spot
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Online High Stakes - Phil Ivey in Three Way PotPhil Ivey playing a big three way pot on Full Tilt
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Phil Ivey in Tricky Spot vs Daniel NegreanuPhil Ivey facing tricky river decision against Negreanu
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Phil Ivey Taking His Time to Call Jason MercierPhil Ivey takes unusually long time to make the call against Jason Mercier
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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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Online High Stakes - John Juanda vs Phil Ivey (Huge Pot)Phil Ivey and John Juanda in an almost $700k pot
Phil Ivey loses the $9.6 million Borgata case as a judge rules his edge-sorting breached casino rules, despite no fraud finding in the high-stakes dispute.
Poker star Tom “durrrr” Dwan is in Australia with his fiancée, but not for the Aussie Millions, but to enjoy the Australian Open tennis.
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