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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
8 years ago9,516BestPokerVids,Published 8 years ago
Phil Ivey Puts Feldman to a Big DecisionAndrew Feldman put to an ultimate test by Phil Ivey
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Phil Ivey Chrylser 300 CommercialPhil Ivey in the Chrylser 300 commercial
8 years ago9,497BestPokerVids,Published 8 years ago
EPT11 Grand Final - Phil Ivey Putting Daniel Negreanu to the TestDaniel Negreanu with a river decision against Phil Ivey
9 years ago19,141Published 9 years ago
Phil Ivey Getting Gerbi-edThings not going right for Phil Ivey against Raffaele Gerbi
9 years ago5,252ThePokerAces,Published 9 years ago
Blast from the Past - Ivey Can Dodge Bullets, TooPhil Ivey against aces of Layani during EPT Season 3
9 years ago9,181mrpeanut,Published 9 years ago
Phil Ivey Interviewed by Dave 'Devilfish' UlliottThey love NL Hold’em in Bobby’s room Vegas shown for first time, with banned footage from Bellagio. There are hot xxx crazy po...
9 years ago67,244LaoTze,Published 9 years ago
Phil Ivey Cracks a Joke about Phil HellmuthPhil Ivey tells a funny story about Phil Hellmuth
9 years ago5,970ThePokerAces,Published 9 years ago
Michael Mizrachi Trying to Bluff the MasterMichael 'The Grinder' Mizrachi trying to make Phil Ivey give up his hand
9 years ago4,311ThePokerAces,Published 9 years ago
Ivey vs Antonius - Two of the Best AirballingThis is how the best players in the world play when they have no real hand
9 years ago63,869BestPokerVids,Published 9 years ago
Online High Stakes - MrSweets28 vs RaiseOnceShort PLO session: Phil 'MrSweets28' Galfond vs Phil 'RaiseOnce' Ivey
Articles Featuring Phil Ivey
Poker Gossip & Opinion,
9 years ago
Weekly Highstakes Report: Phil Ivey Stuck a Lot, Kostritsyn Continues to Crush
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Weekly High Stakes Report: Phil Ivey Loses Nearly $700K, ‘the cortster’ On a Sick Upswing
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Poker Gossip & Opinion,
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Weekly High Stakes Report: Ivey on the Comeback Trail, Hansen Dips Below $20 Million
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Poker Gossip & Opinion,
9 years ago
Weekly High Stakes Report: Ivey Losing Big, SanIker Crushing, Blom Returns
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Weekly High Stakes Report: Ivey Keeps Crushing, ‘EireAbu’ is Back
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6 years ago
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Viktor Blom Wins $490,163 In a Single Day And Is On a Legendary Heater
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