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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.
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Phil IveyPublished 15 years ago
Phil Ivey Fresh From The Baccarat RoomGloria catches up with the ever elusive Phil Ivey on break from the 100K buy in. Phil says his late arrive was a result of some ba...
Published 7 years ago
Phil Ivey Gets Penalised!Phil Ivey is shocked and just cannot believe it when he is asked to pay the penalty as he took a long time to make a decision agai...
Published 9 years ago
Phil Ivey Getting Gerbi-edThings not going right for Phil Ivey against Raffaele Gerbi
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Phil Ivey Going Runner-Runner on Daniel NegreanuDaniel Negreanu with (some more) bad run in high stakes cash games
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Phil Ivey Going for Big Bluff vs Gus HansenPhil Ivey trying a big river bluff against Gus Hansen
Published 3 years ago
Phil Ivey Hand CompilationThe best of Phil Ivey aka the master of aggression! Become the best and grab $20 free play Here.
Published 9 years ago
Phil Ivey Interviewed by Dave 'Devilfish' UlliottThey love NL Hold’em in Bobby’s room Vegas shown for first time, with banned footage from Bellagio. There are hot xxx crazy po...
Published 11 years ago
Phil Ivey Just Doesn t Back Down! What a Read!Mercier tried to outplay Phil Ivey with an aggressive raise but it backfires. Watching Phil Ivey play sometimes makes you think he...
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
Published 9 years ago
Phil Ivey Owning Dennis PhillipsPhil Ivey showing his skills once again, making max profit with the best hand
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