Phil Ivey

Phil Ivey, real name Phillip Dennis Ivey Jr. is widely regarded as one of the best poker players to ever grace this earth.

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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High Stakes Poker: Phil Ivey Owns Jason Mercier

A classic hand from HSP - Ivey crushing souls; this time it is Jason Mericer's turn to feel the pain

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High Stakes Rail - Phil 'Polarizing' Ivey 8-game

Video of Thursday's high stakes rail stream from Pokertube, featuring the great one himself, Phil 'Polarizing' Ivey.

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How Dwan Plays Two Pair Versus Phil Ivey's Set

Tom "durrrr" Dwan playing two pair against Phil Ivey's set in Poker After Dark.

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How Phil Ivey takes a cooler - Set over set - Nati

How Phil Ivey reacts when he gets a bad beat from Scotty Nguyen.

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Hustler Casino $200/$400 Cash Game ft GMan, Ivey and Dwan

Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, Matt Berkey and Adelstein join the locals for a giant $200/$400 NLHE cash game at the Hustler Casino.Start yo...

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Interesting Hand PCA 2013 - Ivey vs. Bernstein

Interesting Poker Hand with Phil Ivey at the PCA 10.

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Interview with Phil Ivey from 2003

Interview with Phil Ivey made during The Poker Superstars S01 2003.

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Isaac Haxton Walks into Ivey's Trap

Phil Ivey spreads a trap and Ike Haxton walks right into it

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Isaac Haxton bluff vs Phil Ivey - Aussie Millions 2014

Two big players get head to head involved in a big pot during the Aussie Millions $250k Super High Roller.

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Ivey Applies The Pressure

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Phil Ivey Loses His Lawsuit Against Crockfords – Judge Deems Ivey ‘Truthful Witness’

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Phil Ivey Net Worth

Phil Ivey net worth: According to CelebrityNetWorth.com, the 39-year-old American gambler has a fortune worth $100 million and it only continues to rise.

Phil Ivey Baccarat Tales

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Glory Days: 5 Things We Will Miss About Full Tilt Poker

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Craziest Hands Of The 2016 WSOP Main Event

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.

Phil Ivey Was ‘Cheating’ Says UK Appeal Judge

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.

Which Country Really has the Best Poker Players?

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Phil Ivey Appealing Court Decision in the Crockfords Case

Big:A;fter the court ruled against Phil Ivey in his case against the Crockfords Casino, the poker public has been waiting for Ivey’s legal team next action. It wasn’t likely that Ivey would just

Phil Ivey Asks UK Court to Decide Exactly What Is Cheating

On a trip to London, UK, Ivey visited the upmarket private casino Crockford's, an exclusive outfit in Mayfair, to play the game Punto Banco, a form of Baccarat.