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
5 years ago34,625Bellagio1,Published 5 years ago
Phil Ivey Did WHAT in the Main Event?!There's been a lot of talk this week about Phil Ivey and his deep run in the 2018 WSOP Main Event. His bust-out hand got even more...
11 years ago7,312Published 11 years ago
Phil Ivey Crushes Hyper Aggressive Move by MercierJason Mercier makes an aggressive semi bluff preflop. He gets a "customer" he does not want - Phil Ivey. On the flop Ivey ends up ...
11 years ago6,738Hidgers6,Published 11 years ago
Phil Ivey Crushes Hyper Aggressive Move by MercierIt is a tough cash game on GSN TV show High Stakes Poker. Jason Mercier makes an aggressive semi bluff preflop. He gets a "custome...
9 years ago67,244LaoTze,Published 9 years ago
Phil Ivey Cracks a Joke about Phil HellmuthPhil Ivey tells a funny story about Phil Hellmuth
8 years ago19,963BestPokerVids,Published 8 years ago
Phil Ivey Chrylser 300 CommercialPhil Ivey in the Chrylser 300 commercial
10 years ago72,652ThePokerAces,Published 10 years ago
Phil Ivey Calls Mizrachi - Ultimate Feel CallPhil Ivey smells somethings wrong - That's why he's the best, natural instinct.
10 years ago8,916ThePokerAces,Published 10 years ago
Phil Ivey Bluffs Eric LindgrenOn the Full Tilt Poker LNP.
9 years ago7,187BestPokerVids,Published 9 years ago
Phil Ivey Beats Antonius for Aussie Millions 2012 SHR TitlePhil Ivey claiming 2012 Aussie Millions Super High Roller title
9 years ago18,588welovepoker,Published 9 years ago
Phil Ivey Arriving to the High Court in LondonPhil Ivey and his alleged associate Cheng Yin Sun arriving to the High Court in London
16 years ago7,106Published 16 years ago
Phil Ivey AdJust becasue you dress like me, you think you can play like me
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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.
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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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