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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11 years ago6,424Published 11 years ago
Phil Ivey owns Lex's soul with 52o on High Stakes PokerOne of the top ten televised bluffs of all time.
10 years ago6,469Arnas1254,Published 10 years ago
Phil Ivey making a power play against FeldmanPhil Ivey showing why he is called the poker pro.
5 years ago6,475BDJB,Published 5 years ago
Top 5 Most Controversial Poker HandsUsually a game played in good spirits, sometimes controversy follows people around and not every follows the rules of both poker a...
8 years ago6,552BestPokerVids,Published 8 years ago
Blast from the Past - Gus Hansen Trying to Bluff Phil IveyGus Hansen trying to pull a bluff against Phil Ivey
9 years ago6,644ThePokerAces,Published 9 years ago
Dan Cates Trying to Extract Value from Phil IveyDan Cates trying to get Phil Ivey to pay him off in a bit of a tricky spot
8 years ago6,655BestPokerVids,Published 8 years ago
High Stakes Action - David Oppenheim on FireDavid Oppenheim on fire on the high stakes cash game, playing against Patrik Antonius, Tom 'durrrr' Dwan, Phil Ivey, Eli Elezra...
10 years ago6,707Published 10 years ago
Esfandiari betters Phil Ivey!Phil Ivey obviously caught some sort of read from Esfandiari on this one!
11 years ago6,738Hidgers6,Published 11 years ago
Phil Ivey Crushes Hyper Aggressive Move by MercierIt is a tough cash game on GSN TV show High Stakes Poker. Jason Mercier makes an aggressive semi bluff preflop. He gets a "custome...
7 years ago6,748BestPokerVids,Published 7 years ago
National Heads-Up Championship - Ivey Shocked With a Chop PotPhil Ivey isn't best pleased when he has to split the pot in his first round match with Chad Brown in the 2006 National Heads-Up C...
11 years ago6,768Published 11 years ago
Phil Ivey vs Ziigmund FLIPSOnline montage with music. Phil Ivey & Ziigmund flip for large amounts on money online. Nice.
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.
Phil Ivey online poker: The words ‘Phil Ivey’ and ‘losing player’ are not often heard together - 2015 has been a bad year for this top player online.
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.
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32-year-old American poker pro Justin Bonomo took down the $270K buy-in 2018 Super High Roller Bowl China after defeating a star-studded field.
The first ever €111,111 One Drop High Roller to be played in Europe is selling out fast as more than half the seats have already been filled.
Lary Kennedy’s trying to convince judges that almost everyone connected to the site is guilty of fraud.
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!
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Borgata can claim only $27 from the card manufacturers they blamed for Ivey’s massive win!
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