Poker Pro Phil Ivey
The poker world has been taken by storm by Phil Ivey with the player quickly raising his reputation within both live and online poker action due to the amount of success that seems to follow this professional to a high percentage of tournaments and ring games that he buys into.
The American born poker player was born 1st February 1976 and currently resides in Las Vegas, regarded as the homeland of gambling.
Phil Ivey is widely considered to be the best poker player in the world. In fact he’s not only the best many consider him to be in a league of his own as dominate as Michael Jordan was in basketball, Lance Armstrong in cycling, and Tiger Woods in golf.
To put Phil Ivey’s poker accomplishments into perspective, he spends most of his time playing high stakes cash games in Bobby’s Room located at the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas. That’s his specialty, while some players are online players, others are tournament players, Phil Ivey is first and foremost a live cash game player, and this is what he focuses on. In his spare time however, Ivey has managed to become the all time winningest tournament player with over $13.5 million in cashes, and also the third winningest online player (trailing only Tom Dwan (Durrrr) and Phil Galfond (OmgClayaiken) with $5.4 million in career online poker winnings. Ivey is so dominate in every category today many consider him not only the best player playing the game now, but perhaps the best poker player to have ever lived.
Phil Ivey and the World Series of Poker
Ivey has had a large amount of success during this series of poker tournaments, winning 8 winners bracelets in his time at the tournament tables, with 2002 proving to be a huge year for the player after winning 3 WSOP bracelets in one year’s schedule.
A list of the Ivey’s World Series of Poker victories can be seen below:
Year Tournament Prize (US$)
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
Phil Ivey is now tied with Erik Seidel for fifth on the all-time bracelet list.
The high profile professional poker player has an online home at Full Tilt Poker and you can regularly see the player taking to the Omaha poker ring table games on a nightly basis.
So if you have the courage and bankroll to play with Phil Ivey, you better start playing at Full Tilt Poker.
