- 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
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Sunday, 23 January 2011
Phil Ivey Trivia #2
Saturday, 22 January 2011
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.
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