Phil Ivey

Phil Ivey, real name Phillip Dennis Ivey Jr. is widely regarded as one of the best poker players to ever grace this earth.

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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Patrik Antonius vs Phil Ivey

This is a hand playd between Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey @ the 2006 Aussie Millions Cash Game

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Ivey vs the crock!

Hand played b/t Phil Ivey and the Croc @ the 2006 Aussie Millions Cash Game

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Phil Ivey vs Eric Lindgren

Hand b/t Ivey and EDOG @ the 2006 Aussie Millions Cash Game

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Phil Ivey vs Masa Kagawa

hand b/t Phil Ivey and Masa Kagawa @ the 2006 Aussie Millions Cash Game

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Phil Ivey vs David Benyamine

1st hand of the 2006 Aussie Millions Cash Game between Phil Ivey and David Benyamine

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Phil Ivey - Aussie Millions 2008

Amanda Interviews Phil Ivey In The Aussie Millions 100K Event

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Interview with Phil Ivey from 2003

Interview with Phil Ivey made during The Poker Superstars S01 2003.

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Ivey lost a monster pot !

Ivey lost a monster pot !

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Phil Ivey First to Cross the Million Chip Mark at LAPC

Phil Ivey looking to make his record setting 8th WPT Final Table... and this time he plans on winning.

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Phil Ivey’s 8th final table

Kimberly Lansing of worldpokertour.coms Live Updates talks to Phil Ivey as he heads into his record setting 8th WPT Final Table......

Live Poker Events, 5 years ago

Phil Ivey Records First WSOP Cash In 4 Years

Poker fans the world over would like to see Phil Ivey make a run at Phil Hellmuth's record of 14 WSOP titles.

Tom Dwan and Phil Ivey Go To War

The hand between two of poker's best players was analyzed on the latest episode of "Poker Hands With Doug Polk."

Borgata's Case against Phil Ivey Proceeds to Court

Big:B;orgata's lawsuit against Phil Ivey has been allowed to proceed to court, the Pressofatlanticcity reported. After losing his legal battle against the Crockfords late last year, the high roller

Outrageous Indulgences of Poker Millionaires

Let’s take a look at some of the most ridiculous purchases of the poker millionaires club!

Phil Ivey No Show for WSOP 2015

So far, Phil Ivey has been a no-show at the World Series of Poker 2015, skipping event the $50k Players' Championship

Patrik Antonius Shows Off Triton Poker Trip on IG

When you’re Patrik Antonius you don’t have win at poker to be winning at life, you just have to show up.

Doyle Brunson Announces Retirement From Poker

The greatest living legend of the poker world announced his retirement from the game.

D-Negs WSOP Vlog: Smack Talking Hellmuth, Matusow’s Crazy Stories and Getting Shut Down By Ivey

The real highlight is the contribution of the elusive and camera shy Phil Ivey who Daniel tries to draw out on the subject of a slightly odd PLO hand.

Patrik Antonius Shows Instagram What $25 Million in Cash Looks Like

Patrik Antonius had the casino crack open their cash bucket and scoop him out some bricks.

Live Poker Events, 6 years ago

John Juanda Wins Triton Super High Roller Macau For $2,872,299

It was strike one for the old-school poker pros as John Juanda fended off the challenge of Fedor Holz heads-up.