Full Tilt Co-Founder Rafe Furst is Also in the Cryptocurrency Business
Rafe Furst is the latest to jump on the cryptocurrency bandwagon from the poker world - he announced the launch of his cryptocoin investment company.
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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Phil IveyPublished 8 years ago
Ivey, Durrrr, Hansen, Antonius and Negreanu flip for $100,000 eachIvey, Durrrr, Hansen, Antonius and Negreanu flip for $100,000 each in Poker After Dark
Published 6 years ago
Phil Ivey vs Patrik Antonius $800k Pot - Ivey League AnalysisPatrik and Phil talk about a huge $800k cash hand played live between the pair.
Published 6 years ago
Phil Ivey Explaining Why He Mucked the Winning HandPhil Ivey explains the notorious hand in which he mucks the winner.
Published 2 years ago
$2Million Pot at the Super High Roller Cash Game!The biggest pot of all time??This hand between Jason Koon and Kane Kalas could quite possibly be the biggest cash game hand ever t...
Published 6 years ago
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Published 8 years ago
Life of Ivey - Let's Steal StuffPoker Road follows the life of Phil Ivey. Amanda Leatherman checks in with Phil Ivey following his second bracelet of the 2009 WSOP.
Published 7 years ago
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Published 8 years ago
Life of Ivey - At the Hustler Part 2At the Hustler Part 2\n
Published 13 years ago
Phil Ivey’s 8th final tableKimberly Lansing of worldpokertour.coms Live Updates talks to Phil Ivey as he heads into his record setting 8th WPT Final Table......
Published 8 years ago
High Stakes PLO Show - Ivey vs Trex313Connectorz High Stakes PLO Show from Friday 15th Feb 2013. Phil Ivey aka 'Polarizing' plays at PLO session against Trex313 and Davin.
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