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 Ivey
5 years ago121,820ThePokerAces,Published 5 years ago
Tom Dwan: Two Big Pots Against Benyamine and IveyGutshout straight draws coming in on the turn
12 years ago86,742Published 12 years ago
Patrik Antonius vs Phil IveyThis is a hand playd between Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey @ the 2006 Aussie Millions Cash Game
10 years ago86,668Published 10 years ago
Phil Ivey in LondonThe best player in the world, Phil Ivey, has come to London to take part in the WSOP-E. PokerTube had a chat with him about the pr...
5 years ago76,560welovepoker,Published 5 years ago
Phil Ivey on 60 Minutes Sports - PreviewPhil Ivey will appear on 60 minutes sports on Showtime TV. Here's the preview.
11 years ago50,922Published 11 years ago
Phil Ivey - Aussie Millions 2008Amanda Interviews Phil Ivey In The Aussie Millions 100K Event
11 years ago49,244Published 11 years ago
Phil Ivey First to Cross the Million Chip Mark at LAPCPhil Ivey looking to make his record setting 8th WPT Final Table... and this time he plans on winning.
4 years ago48,559ThePokerAces,Published 4 years ago
Biggest Televised Pot - EverThe biggest televised pot in the history of poker between Tom Dwan and Phil Ivey
11 years ago48,174Published 11 years ago
Interview with Phil Ivey from 2003Interview with Phil Ivey made during The Poker Superstars S01 2003.
5 years ago38,830PokerRoadVids,Published 5 years ago
60 Minutes Phil Ivey Interview on Cheating at Borgata and CrockfordsPhil Ivey talking on 60 Minutes about his Borgata and Crockfords cheating scandals
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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It was never going to be easy to get Phil Ivey to return the almost $10million winnings from his now infamous Borgata baccarat case.
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Phil Ivey’s recent run of bad beats in the courts continued when his appeal against a London casino over winnings of £7.7million was rejected by three Court of Appeal judges.
New Jersey judge found that Ivey and his partner in an edge-sorting plan had breached their contract with the Borgata casino in Atlantic City.
For some players, sum of $10k is simply pocket change – enough to pay for a weekend away somewhere or even fuel for their private jet!
You’re only going to get them one time in several thousand hands, and when you do there are only two hands that can beat them, so folding quads seems like a very unlikely occurrence in any event. But it happens.
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