Phil Ivey Trivia #2

• Phil Ivey won the first ever live-broadcast Hold’em tournament at the Turning Stone Casino American Poker Championship. It was his first no-limit Hold’em tournament win.
• Phil Ivey is sometimes called "The Tiger Woods of Poker"
• Ivey won back-to-back poker tournaments in November 2005, in Monaco, at the Monte Carlo Millions and the Full Tilt Poker Invitational Live tournament

Phil Ivey Bluffing Lindgren

Phil Ivey plays Gavin Smith

Phil Ivey plays Gavin Smith and keeps his cool... as always.

Phil Ivey Trivia #1

Phil Ivey Trivia #1

It is said that Phil Ivey once played Andy Beal the billionaire out of $16.6 million during a three day Limit Holdem heads up game.This lead to Beal leaving Las Vegas saying he would not play poker again.  Andy Beal was a mathsgenius who designed a "perfect" method of playing Limit Hold'em that would entail giving off no tells at all. He had each move perfectly timed and played the game in accordance to a plan that he had designed.

Phil Ivey quotes

Phil Ivey to Howard Lederer

"You get your chips your way, I'll get my chips mine"

Phil Ivey

"If you play a lot of poker you realize that the better players play a lot of hands and they take chances,'' Ivey says. "The players that don't do as well are just sitting there folding every hand and not taking chances. I'm playing against the best players in the world day in and day out, so you can't just sit there and play only good hands all the time. You've got to take some chances and know when you're beat and know how to get certain advantages.

Daniel Negrean on Phil Ivey

Daniel Negrean on Phil Ivey


"It’s my belief that Phil Ivey is the best poker player in the world, and that includes every format. I’ve played live with him, cash, Hold’em, Stud, Omaha, whatever, and he is just the most consistently good player at everything including online based on what his results look like. I don’t think anyone has won more money online, live play, or tournament poker, than Ivey."

Phil Ivey amazing bluff

Phil Ivey Bluffing Tom Dwan

Phil Ivey Biography

Phil Ivey Biography

Phil Ivey hails from New Jersey.

Phils grandfather taught him how to play Five-Card Stud. His grandfather deployed old hustler tricks like dealing from the bottom deck dealing to teach Phil about the crooked side of the poker world. This stood him in  good stead.

Phil Iveys poker career really started in Atlantic City where he made a name for himself as a high-stakes player ahead of going on to the live tournament circuit.  It was in the year 2000 an at the age of 23, Phil triumphed in his first World Series of Poker Event number 14, the $2,500 Pot Limit Omaha tournament triumphing over Amarillo Slim and Phil Hellmuth  in the Omaha event.

This was bracelet number 1 and his bankroll was boosted by almost 200k.

World Series of Poker
Phil Ivey results to date include:

•      8 WSOP Bracelets
•      1 WPT Championship
•      $13.1 Million in Career Tournament Earnings

Many who follow poker consider Phil Ivey to be the best poker player in spite of his young age as he was only born  in  1976.  Phil has been  playing big live cash games for around 10 years.  It is possible that Phil Ivey has earned tens of millions paying the game of Poker itself but his net worth could be in  excess of $100m million due to his interest in the Full Tilt Poker company.  Phil is always looking to improve his Poker and is constantly working to make his game better.

Phil spends some of his time away from the poker table at the golf course.  He is also rumored to enjoy a bet away from the Poker table.  Sometimes combining the two and Betting on golf. Phil is also famous for making some big bets like betting on himself to win at the World Series of Poker.