Business & Industry,
8 years ago
Phil Ivey's Newest Venture
Poker legend Phil Ivey has announced his latest adventure which will see him join forces with iTEAM network to launch his own Daily Fantasy Sports site – PhilIveyDFS.
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.
Official Website
Ivey LeagueWikipedia
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Phil IveyVideos Featuring Phil Ivey
9 years ago12,278PokerRoadVids,Published 9 years ago
Phil Ivey Explaining Why He Mucked the Winning HandPhil Ivey explains the notorious hand in which he mucks the winner.
9 years ago23,798ThePokerAces,Published 9 years ago
Phil Ivey Seeing Right Through Tom DwanPhil Ivey and Tom Dwan in the preflop raising wars; this one goes to Mr. Ivey
9 years ago8,467ThePokerAces,Published 9 years ago
Negreanu 55 vs Dwan 99 vs Ivey 1010 - Aussie Millions 2014Big 3 way hand during the Aussie Millions 2014 between Negreanu, Dwan and Phil Ivey.
9 years ago9,129ThePokerAces,Published 9 years ago
Isaac Haxton bluff vs Phil Ivey - Aussie Millions 2014Two big players get head to head involved in a big pot during the Aussie Millions $250k Super High Roller.
9 years ago9,154RPFC,Published 9 years ago
Model Citizen Fund Celebrity Tourney - Ivey, Bilzerian, Bieber, Ja RuleAll In Magazine travel to the W hotel for Dan Fleyshman's celebrity poker tournament. The likes of Phil Ivey, Dan Bilzerian and ot...
9 years ago25,158BestPokerVids,Published 9 years ago
Aussie Millions 2014: 250K Challenge FT - Episode 2Final table of Aussie Millions 2014 250K challenge, featuring Daniel Negreanu, Tom Dwan, Phil Ivey, Fabian Quoss, Mike McDonald
9 years ago21,327BestPokerVids,Published 9 years ago
Aussie Millions 2014: 250K Challenge FT - Episode 3Final table of Aussie Millions 2014 250K challenge, featuring Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, Mike McDonald, Ike Haxton
9 years ago10,418RPFC,Published 9 years ago
The Ivey Life - 100 yard dash in CaboIvey challenges Mike Leah against 2 girls in a 100 yard dash in Cabo.
9 years ago10,498RPFC,Published 9 years ago
Ivey Life - Golf Swing with NatashaThe Ivey Life continues on the golf course in Cabo with Ivey betting his friend if Natasha can drive.
9 years ago23,240BestPokerVids,Published 9 years ago
Aussie Millions 2014: High Stakes Cash - Ep4Paul Phua, Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, Doug Polk and other big name pros continue to battle it out in the super high stakes cash g...
Articles Featuring Phil Ivey
Poker Gossip & Opinion,
8 years ago
The Ultimate Poker Fantasy Team
Have you picked your team yet? If you haven’t, how about giving you a head start and talk about one possible poker fantasy team that could really blow your mind?
Poker Gossip & Opinion,
8 years ago
Phil Ivey Asks UK Court to Decide Exactly What Is Cheating
On a trip to London, UK, Ivey visited the upmarket private casino Crockford's, an exclusive outfit in Mayfair, to play the game Punto Banco, a form of Baccarat.
Poker Gossip & Opinion,
7 years ago
Best Pro Poker Faces
Players who haven’t been around all that long often don’t put much stock into the poker face. However, it is a very important aspect of the game in the live setting and is somewhat of a double edged sword.
Poker Gossip & Opinion,
7 years ago
Top 3 Sickest Bluffs
The millions on millions of poker hands that have taken place over the years have made this a very difficult article to write. Picking three sick bluffs is not tough, there are thousands, but the top three, well that's another story...
Poker Gossip & Opinion,
7 years ago
Glory Days: 5 Things We Will Miss About Full Tilt Poker
Today is the day when Full Tilt finally closes its doors as a poker site in its own right, disappears into the fold of PokerStars, and essentially becomes ‘just another skin’ in a market replete with them.
Poker Gossip & Opinion,
7 years ago
Who Will Be the First Player to Cash For $100 Million?
Predicting who will get there first is no easy task considering nobody is even close right now, let’s start by assessing the top 5 from Hendon Mob’s all time money list.
Poker Gossip & Opinion,
7 years ago
Which Country Really has the Best Poker Players?
Many poker enthusiasts find themselves wondering which country has the best poker players in the world and that's precisely the question we'll attempt to answer today.
Poker Gossip & Opinion,
7 years ago
Top All-In Moments
All-in is the most powerful play in poker player's arsenal. The fact that no-limit hold'em offers us the chance to - at any point in the game - play for the entirety of our stack makes it the Cadillac of poker.
Promos,
7 years ago
Phil Ivey Finally Appears at WSOP
Phil Ivey, considered by many to be the ‘greatest of all time’, finally appeared at this year’s World Series of Poker to join Day 1C –his first, and only, event of the series.
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