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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Phil Ivey owns Lex's soul with 52o on High Stakes Poker

One of the top ten televised bluffs of all time.

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Phil Ivey making a power play against Feldman

Phil Ivey showing why he is called the poker pro.

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Top 5 Most Controversial Poker Hands

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Blast from the Past - Gus Hansen Trying to Bluff Phil Ivey

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Dan Cates Trying to Extract Value from Phil Ivey

Dan Cates trying to get Phil Ivey to pay him off in a bit of a tricky spot

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High Stakes Action - David Oppenheim on Fire

David Oppenheim on fire on the high stakes cash game, playing against Patrik Antonius, Tom 'durrrr' Dwan, Phil Ivey, Eli Elezra...

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National Heads-Up Championship - Ivey Shocked With a Chop Pot

Phil 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...

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Esfandiari betters Phil Ivey!

Phil Ivey obviously caught some sort of read from Esfandiari on this one!

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Phil Ivey Crushes Hyper Aggressive Move by Mercier

It is a tough cash game on GSN TV show High Stakes Poker. Jason Mercier makes an aggressive semi bluff preflop. He gets a "custome...

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Looking Inside Poker's Greatest Minds with Ivey,

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Phil Ivey Loses His UK Supreme Court Challenge Over £7.7 Million Winnings

Poker legend Phil Ivey has lost a Supreme Court challenge over his £7.7million Punto Banco win at Crockford’s Casino in London.

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John Juanda Wins Triton Super High Roller Macau For $2,872,299

It was strike one for the old-school poker pros as John Juanda fended off the challenge of Fedor Holz heads-up.

Phil Ivey Announces his Return to Competitive Play

Phil Ivey’s disappearance from the tournament circuit this past year or so has been as much of a mystery as Tom Dwan’s similar situation a couple of years ago

Borgata’s $10million ‘Double Recovery’ Fight in Phil Ivey Edge-Sorting Case

The Phil Ivey edge-sorting case has spilled over into a court battle between the Borgata casino and the card manufacturers.

Phil Ivey Makes Public Appearance in Beijing

World’s most famous poker player put in an appearance in Beijing this week to promote the Chinese poker application Zhi Zou.

Arcade Owners Charged Over Underage Poker Lessons

The owners of a Pennsylvania gaming arcade are facing a variety of charges connected to teaching local teenagers as young as 14 how to play poker.

Dan Bilzerian Denies Role Of Trust Fund

Bilzerian has taken to the Graham Bensinger show to talk about his poker exploits and where the money came from to fund his fun and games.

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It was the Aria on Las Vegas Boulevard which saw Bilzerian drop in on his old friend jean Robert Bellande...

Is Tom Dwan a Texas Hold'em God?

The return of Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan from his far-eastern sojourn to the big-time Vegas cash game had everybody in the poker community on the edge of their seats.

Lary Kennedy Sues Full Tilt Poker Again

Lary Kennedy’s trying to convince judges that almost everyone connected to the site is guilty of fraud.