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
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9 years ago11,670ThePokerAces,Published 9 years ago
Sharks Balling Out of ControlPhil Ivey, 'durrrr', Patrik Antonius and Daniel Negreanu in some crazy action
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Ziigmund and Ivey Play Big OnePhil Ivey faces a tough river decision against very aggressive Ilari 'Ziigmund' Sahamies
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Phil Ivey Soul Reads Tom DwanPhil Ivey makes a sick 5-bet preflop bluff vs Tom durrrr Dwan
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Legends Battling - Phil Ivey vs Tom DwanDurrrr puts Phil Ivey in a tough spot on the river
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Phil Ivey Owning SahamiesPhil Ivey takes Ziigmund to school
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Floating Like Ivey - Patrik OutplayedPhil Ivey with perfect feeling for where he is in a hand vs Patrik Antonius
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Eli Elezra Cracks Lederer's AcesEli Elezra takes a big one from Howard Lederer
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Chris Ferguson Gets ConfusedFunny: Chris Ferguson completely oblivious that the action is on him
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Welcome to the Ivey World JasonPhil Ivey picks up a huge bluff by Jason Mercier
Big:O;ur last report ended with a confrontation between ‘thecortster’ and ‘SanIker’ on Monday. The two picked up right where they left off on Tuesday, continuing to exchange huge pots on the
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Finnish high-stakes poker legend Ilari ‘Ziigmund’ Sahamies is a survivor in more ways than one!
Ivey has now been granted one final appeal in the Supreme Court, the last gasp left between him and having to give up on his arguably ill-gotten gains barring, perhaps, the intervention of HRH.
The Aria Super High Roller Bowl was a $500,000 buy-in event aired on NBC and was presented by Poker Central. Review some of the action between top pros.
Which one of these stars of poker will go home with the $1 million prize? Watch and see.
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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.
The Phil Ivey edge-sorting case has spilled over into a court battle between the Borgata casino and the card manufacturers.
There are a few candidates for Dwan’s bankroll/backer Mr Big role, but let’s get the potential horror stories out of the way first...
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