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
9 years ago21,328ThePokerAces,Published 9 years ago
Phil Ivey Torturing an AmateurPhil Ivey is putting a lot of pressure on an amateur player during WSOP 2014 Main Event
10 years ago20,915ThePokerAces,Published 10 years ago
Phil Ivey Spider Senses WeaknessClassic Phil Ivey feel play
11 years ago20,205PokerTube,Published 11 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.
8 years ago19,963BestPokerVids,Published 8 years ago
Phil Ivey Chrylser 300 CommercialPhil Ivey in the Chrylser 300 commercial
16 years ago19,654Published 16 years ago
Phil Ivey Wins the WPT LAPCKimberly Lansing of worldpokertour.coms Live Updates talks to Phil Ivey after he won the WPT L.A. Poker Classic... Dont Just Watch...
17 years ago19,640Published 17 years ago
Phil Ivey vs David Benyamine1st hand of the 2006 Aussie Millions Cash Game between Phil Ivey and David Benyamine
14 years ago19,565Published 14 years ago
Life of Ivey - End of Day 4 Hoping to Knock this Thing DownPhil Ivey survives Day 4 of the WSOP Main Event and has his eye on taking down the whole thing.
9 years ago19,141Published 9 years ago
Phil Ivey Getting Gerbi-edThings not going right for Phil Ivey against Raffaele Gerbi
11 years ago19,093Published 11 years ago
Life of Ivey - Phil vs Bear - Bowling WarsPhil vs Bear - Bowling Wars
9 years ago19,088BestPokerVids,Published 9 years ago
Phil Ivey Knows When to Fold'emPhil Ivey shows once again why he is the best, making a great fold without getting too involved with a hand
Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom’s call in the early hours of the morning to lift the partypoker MILLIONS Germany Main Event has to go down as the ‘Call of the Century’ so far.
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Let’s delve into some of Ivey’s biggest hands from over the years
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The millions on millions of poker hands that have taken place over the years have made this a very difficult article to write. Picking three sick bluffs is not tough, there are thousands, but the top three, well that's another story...
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The hand between two of poker's best players was analyzed on the latest episode of "Poker Hands With Doug Polk."
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