Known as "The Tiger Woods of Poker", Phil Ivey is a professional poker player who is considered by some to be the best poker player in the world.
Born in 1976 in Riverside, California, his family moved to New Jersey when he was three months old. He first played poker with his grandfather when he was about 8 years old and by age 16 he was playing in local games for money. He used a fake ID with the name "Jerome Graham" to sneak into Atlantic City casinos at age 17. He earned the nickname "No Home Jerome" because he spent all of his time at the casino. Later on, when he became older enough to legally play in the casino, he told everyone his real name and apologized to them about saying that his name was Jerome.
With 8 WSOP bracelets, Ivey is currently tied with Erik Seidel for the 5th most of all-time.
Year | Event | Prize |
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2000 | $2,500 Pot Limit Omaha | $195,000 |
2002 | $2,500 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo | $118,440 |
2002 | $2,000 S.H.O.E. | $107,540 |
2002 | $1,500 7 Card Stud | $132,000 |
2005 | $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha | $635,603 |
2009 | $2,500 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball | $96,367 |
2009 | $2,500 Omaha Hi/Lo / 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo | $220,538 |
2010 | $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. | $329,840 |
He placed in the top 25 four times between the 2002 and 2009, finishing 23rd in 2002, 10th in 2003 (one place short of the final table), 20th in 2005 and 7th in 2009 (his A-K lost to Darvin Moon's A-Q). This is a very impressive accomplishment considering the size of the fields during these years.
Ivey has also made 9 final tables on the WPT. His biggest win came in 2008 during the sixth season at the LA Poker Classic at the Commerce Casino where Ivey won the $1,596,000 first prize. Prior to this he had made 7 WPT final tables without a win. He has lost several of these events by being eliminated while holding the same hand each time, A-Q.
In 2005, Ivey won the $1 million first prize at the Monte Carlo Millions tournament. The next day, Ivey won another $600,000 for finishing first at "The FullTiltPoker.Net Invitational Live from Monte Carlo" against six tough opponents - Phil Hellmuth, Gus Hansen, Mike Matusow, Chris Ferguson, Dave Ulliott, and John Juanda. In 2005, Ivey was named Bluff Magazine's 2005 Player of the Year.
Ivey plays in some of the highest-stakes cash games in the world. He is a regular participant in the "Big Game", a $4,000-$8,000 mixed game at the Bellagio in Las Vegas where you can win or lose over a million dollars in a single night. He has said that he prefers cash games over tournaments because he prefers to play against the best players in the world all the time. It also helps that he can make more in a cash game session than a first-place finish in a tournament. He has also said he quit playing tournaments because it didn't bother him to lose and that he has actually played in tournaments where he dumped his chips just so he could play in a side game.
In 2006, he played heads-up Limit Texas Hold'em versus Texas billionaire Andy Beal. With stakes at $25,000/$50,000, Ivey won over $16 million over the course of three days. Ivey was representing "The Corporation", a group of professional poker players who pooled their money and took turns playing against Beal.
According to online databases which keep track of the cash winnings of online players, Ivey played in games with limits up to $500-$1000 no-limit and $2000-$4000 limit and earned $1.99 million on FullTilt in 2007, $7.34 million in 2008, and $6.33 million in 2009.
Ivey is part of the design team for Full Tilt Poker. He can often be found playing online at Full Tilt.
Ivey resides in Las Vegas. In December 2009 Ivey and his wife, Luciaetta, filed for divorce after seven years of marriage.
Earlier in his career Ivey had not been completely comfortable being known as the "The Tiger Woods of poker," saying that "Tiger is the best at his game. I'm not there, yet".
As of 2009, Ivey has 7 bracelets, 36 WSOP cashes, and total live tournament winnings exceeding $12,800,000.
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VA Poker on December 27, 2009
????? on December 26, 2009
He mucked a winning hand, not realizing he had a flush...this guy had his chance, and doesn't have another one coming his way...Mr Moon should have won the thing, but that's the way the cards fall sometimes....he played bign stack poker, just like Raymer, but was unlucky that another player made mistake after mistake, and sh**out three times, and then won the thing....that clown should stick to the internet heads up action, not main events!
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