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
10 years ago9,962ThePokerAces,Published 10 years ago
Phil Ivey VS Patrik Antonius - Battle of the full housesIvey and Antonius battle on the FTP Million dollar cash game.
10 years ago71,041Bellagio1,Published 10 years ago
WPT Alpha8 Season 1 Johanessburg- Phil Ivey InterviewPhil Ivey talks to WPT at the first Alpha8 event in Johanessburg.
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 ago10,221RPFC,Published 10 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.
10 years ago9,320ThePokerAces,Published 10 years ago
Phil Ivey vs Daniel Negreanu - Aussie MillionsIvey and Negreanu face off during the Aussie Millions.
10 years ago8,915ThePokerAces,Published 10 years ago
Phil Ivey Bluffs Eric LindgrenOn the Full Tilt Poker LNP.
9 years ago71,215ThePokerAces,Published 9 years ago
Phil Hellmuth Running Bad on High Stakes PokerPhil Hellmuth having hard time during High Stakes Poker Season 6
9 years ago4,201ThePokerAces,Published 9 years ago
Phil Ivey and Erick Lindgren Going at ItIvey trying to bluff Lindgren out of the pot
9 years ago13,051PokerTube,Published 9 years ago
Phil Ivey: One WordWhat's the first word that comes into your head when you hear the name Phil Ivey? We asked some of our WSOP poker players.
9 years ago9,344ThePokerAces,Published 9 years ago
Phil Ivey Final Table MistakePhil Ivey makes a mistake at the final table of the WSOP 2009
Players who haven’t been around all that long often don’t put much stock into the poker face. However, it is a very important aspect of the game in the live setting and is somewhat of a double edged sword.
He may be famous for losing one of the highest-stakes matches ever to take place, but Andy Beal hasn’t felt the pinch.
The Borgata Casino filed a new pleading in the edge sorting case versus Phil Ivey requesting that the poker champ's counterclaims be dismissed.
Big:B;orgata's lawsuit against Phil Ivey has been allowed to proceed to court, the Pressofatlanticcity reported. After losing his legal battle against the Crockfords late last year, the high roller
The Phil Ivey edge-sorting case has spilled over into a court battle between the Borgata casino and the card manufacturers.
Borgata can claim only $27 from the card manufacturers they blamed for Ivey’s massive win!
Maybe next time you open your favorite poker room or go to your nearby casino, you will too go deep into the tank and start thinking about actually making epic folds. Because it happened ladies and gents at this year’s WSOP Main Event.
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.
Ming Zhang, a baccarat dealer from Alexandria, Virginia, now faces up to five years in prison
The real highlight is the contribution of the elusive and camera shy Phil Ivey who Daniel tries to draw out on the subject of a slightly odd PLO hand.
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