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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 IveyPublished 9 years ago
Ivey League - Phil Ivey Reviewing Heads Up of PLO8 MTTPhil Ivey reviewing a heads up stage of a PLO8 MTT
Published 7 years ago
The day that Tom Dwan Almost Bankrupted Poker's EliteIt's 2010, and poker is at its zenith. After crushing online games and becoming a tv star, one thing was missing for Tom Dwan to c...
Published 10 years ago
Phil Ivey VS Patrik Antonius - Battle of the full housesIvey and Antonius battle on the FTP Million dollar cash game.
Published 11 years ago
Life of Ivey - Kickin Back with Daniel NegreanuKickin Back with Daniel Negreanu
Published 7 years ago
Poker Mistakes that will Make You LaughSometimes, even the best poker players will make mistakes, and of course will fail. But also sometimes they do some mistakes that ...
Published 9 years ago
Patrik Antonius Analyses a Hand Played Against Phil IveyPatrik Antonius analyses a hand played against Phil Ivey on the highstakes table
Published 8 years ago
Phil Ivey Puts Feldman to a Big DecisionAndrew Feldman put to an ultimate test by Phil Ivey
Published 8 years ago
EPT11 Grand Final - Phil Ivey Putting Daniel Negreanu to the TestDaniel Negreanu with a river decision against Phil Ivey
Published 9 years ago
Aussie Millions: Phil Ivey Misreading His HandPhil Ivey misreading his hand in a pot against Daniel Negreanu and Mike McDonald. Ike Haxton finds it very amusing.
Published 7 years ago
National Heads-Up Championship - Phil Ivey vs Alisha KunzeSuperstar Phil Ivey takes on special qualifier Alisha Kunze in the first round of the 2008 National Heads-Up Championship at Caesa...
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