Phil Ivey

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Phil Ivey
Phil Ivey (2009)
Phil Ivey (2009)
  Personal information  
Date of birth 1st February 1977
place of birth United StatesUnited States Riverside
Nickname RaiseOnce
place of residence United StatesUnited States Las Vegas
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money 0$ 3,582,753
Total prize money 30,311,759 $
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 10
Cashes 67
Best main event 7th ( 2009 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
title 1
Cashes 13
  Main event of the European Poker Tour  
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Cashes 3
Last updated: March 16, 2020

Phillip "Phil" Dennis Ivey Jr. (born February 1, 1977 in Riverside , California ) is a professional American poker player .

Ivey is one of the most famous and best poker players in the world. He is ten times bracelet winner of the World Series of Poker , once won the Main Event of the World Poker Tour and three times the A $ 250,000 Challenge the Aussie Millions Poker Championship . Ivey's live tournament revenue is over $ 30 million . As part of the 50th edition of the World Series of Poker , he was named one of the 50 best players in poker history in June 2019 . He is also considered a cash game expert.

Personal

Ivey grew up in New Jersey , honing his poker skills playing against his colleagues at a telemarketing company in New Brunswick in the late 1990s. It turned out that Ivey is not only a great salesman but also a talented card player.

Ivey is a fan of the Los Angeles Lakers and Houston Rockets and often wears basketball jerseys. At the 2003 WSOP , he was wearing the shirt of player Steve Francis when he finished tenth. Ivey's hobbies include video games, side betting and, for some time, golf . He is a member of the design team for the online poker platform Full Tilt Poker .

Ivey lived in Las Vegas with his wife . He often joked about coming home dejected after losing thousands of dollars in cash games to comfort his ex-wife (divorced since December 2009) who lost small amounts in online poker while he was away. Between 2009 and 2011, Ivey borrowed nearly € 11 million from Full Tilt Poker in the form of loans.

In 2012, Ivey won a sum of ten million US dollars at the " Punto Banco Baccarat " at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City . Thereupon a legal battle broke out in which the Borgata Hotel demanded the money back because Ivey was charged with fraud. In the end, Borgata Casino won the lawsuit in December 2016 and Ivey was obliged to repay the sum.

Poker career

Tournament poker

World Series of Poker

Even though Ivey is now less focused on tournaments and more on cash games , he is an extremely successful tournament player. In 2002 he won three bracelets at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas and drew level with Phil Hellmuth and Ted Forrest in the category of most victories in one year .

Ivey won at the WSOP in 2000 and 2005 bracelets in the variant PLO . In addition to his ten bracelets , Ivey was very successful at the main event . From 2002 to 2005 he was three times in the top 25, with the number of participants growing from year to year. At the 2002 Main Event , Ivey came in 23rd, in 2003 tenth and in 2005 20th. Ivey secured his sixth and seventh bracelet at the 2009 WSOP when he won Event # 25, Deuce to Seven Single Draw for $ 96,361 and Event # 25, Omaha / Seven Card Stud HL / 8 or Better for $ 220,538. At the age of 32, he was already fifth in the list of multiple bracelet winners, along with Erik Seidel .

At the 2009 Main Event , Ivey reached the final table and was part of the November Nine . There he finished seventh and received prize money of more than $ 1.4 million.

At the 2010 WSOP , Ivey won his eighth bracelet in Event 37, the $ 3,000 HORSE . WSOP tournaments have also been held outside of America and Europe since 2013. At the World Series of Poker Asia Pacific , which has been taking place since 2013 , Ivey won the $ 2,200 mixed game against 80 other players in April 2013, securing Australian dollars 51,840 and his ninth bracelet. Ivey won his tenth and, for the time being, last bracelet in June 2014 when he beat 484 other players in the $ 1,500 8 game mix . Only Phil Hellmuth won more bracelets than Ivey.

Other tournaments

Ivey (bottom left) at the WPT final table (2005)

On November 20, 2005, Ivey won the $ 1 million grand prize of the Monte Carlo Millions . Just five days later, on November 25, 2005, he won the grand prize of $ 600,000 in a tournament hosted by FullTiltPoker.com and broadcast live from Monte-Carlo . The other six players were Mike Matusow , Phil Hellmuth, Gus Hansen , Chris Ferguson , Dave Ulliott, and John Juanda . At the main event of the European Poker Tour , Ivey sat at the final table once: In mid-September 2006 he finished second in Barcelona and received prize money of 371,000 euros . At the World Poker Tour Main Event , Ivey made the final table nine times. At the Poker Classics in Los Angeles in February 2008 , he won his only WPT title to date and a prize of almost $ 1.6 million. At the Aussie Millions Poker Championship in Melbourne in mid-January 2010, he finished second behind Dan Shak in the A $ 100,000 Challenge for 600,000 Australian dollars, temporarily taking Ivey first in the money list. In the same place he won the A $ 250,000 Challenge three times in 2012, 2014 and 2015 . These successes earned him over eight million Australian dollars in prize money. In early September 2012, Ivey finished eighth on a super high roller in Macau for the equivalent of over $ 800,000. In January 2016, he received the equivalent of around $ 650,000 for his fifth place at a Triton Super High Roller Series event in the Philippines. After not having achieved a cash placement for more than two years, Ivey won the opening tournament of the Triton Series , a short deck ante-only event, in mid-May 2018 in Budva, Montenegro , with a prize money equivalent to more than 600,000 dollars. In the same place, he took third place five days later in a tournament of the same variant for prize money equivalent to more than 1.6 million dollars. In October 2019, Ivey came second in a 100,000-euro Short Deck Super High Roller at King's Resort in Rozvadov and secured almost 830,000 euros. He scored four money placements at the partypoker Live Millions Super High Roller Series in Sochi in March 2020. He secured his highest prize money of more than 850,000 US dollars for winning the seventh event .

On July 22, 2017, Ivey was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame . Ivey plays online on the PokerStars platform under the nickname RaiseOnce .

Bracelet overview

Ivey at the 2009 WSOP

Ivey cashed 67 times at the WSOP and won ten bracelets :

year Buy-in competition Attendees Prize money
2000 A. $ 2500 Pot Limit Omaha 100 $ 195,000
2002 A. $ 1500 Limit 7 Card Stud 253 $ 132,000
$ 2500 Limit 7 Card Stud Hi / Lo 126 $ 118,440
$ 2000 Limit SHOE 143 $ 107,540
2005 A. $ 5000 Pot Limit Omaha 134 $ 635,603
2009 A. $ 2500 Deuce to Seven Draw Lowball 147 0$ 96,367
$ 2500 Omaha / Seven Card Stud HL / 8 or Better 376 $ 220,538
2010 A. $ 3000 HORSE 478 $ 329,840
2013 A A.A $ 2200 Mixed event 081 A0A $ 51,840
2014 A. $ 1500 Eight Game Mix 485 $ 166,986

Prize money overview

year Prize money (in $ ) Tournament victories
1998 00.00.1000 1
1999 00,000.000 -
2000 00.348,388 3
2001 00.141,660 -
2002 00.656.966 7th
2003 00.852.135 2
2004 00.723.940 1
2005 03,733,426 3
2006 01,373,364 -
2007 00.578,928 2
2008 02,025,042 1
2009 01,801,863 2
2010 01,623,231 3
2011 00,000.000 -
2012 03,657,532 1
2013 00.151,892 1
2014 03,787,707 2
2015 01,742,459 1
2016 00.656,500 -
2017 00,000.000 -
2018 02,411,252 1
2019 02,350,926 -
2020 01,453,550 1
total 30,071,759 32

Cash games

Ivey is a regular participant in the $ 4,000 / 8,000 mixed game at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, often referred to as The Big Game . In February 2006, he played Limit Texas Hold'em against Texas billionaire Andrew Beal with stakes of $ 50,000 and $ 100,000. Ivey won a total of $ 16 million in three days and played for the "Corporation", a group of professional poker players who pooled their money to play one after the other against Beal. Earlier that month, Beal had won $ 10 million from the corporation. After losing to Ivey, Beal declared (not for the first time) that he was going to quit the game of poker.

Web links

Commons : Phil Ivey  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All Time Most Popular Players in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 21, 2018.
  2. ↑ WSOP Reveals List of 50 Greatest Players in Poker History , pokernews.com, accessed July 27, 2019.
  3. ↑ Phil Ivey in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 21, 2018.
  4. ↑ Phil Ivey borrowed nearly $ 11 million from Full Tilt Poker on wettnetzwerk.com, accessed on February 6, 2018.
  5. ↑ Phil Ivey has to repay $ 10 million. Retrieved December 7, 2018 .
  6. ↑ a b Phil Ivey in the World Series of Poker database, accessed February 6, 2018.
  7. ↑ 2005 Monte Carlo Millions ($ 25,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed February 6, 2018.
  8. ↑ $ 120,000 Full Tilt Poker Invitational ($ 120,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed February 6, 2018.
  9. ↑ EPT - 3 - Barcelona (€ 4,800 + 200 No Limit Hold'em - EPT Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 6, 2018 (English).
  10. ↑ 2008 LA Poker Classic ($ 9,900 + 100 No Limit Hold'em - Championship Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed February 6, 2018.
  11. ↑ 2010 Aussie Millions Poker Championship (A $ 100,000 + 500 $ 100,000 Challenge) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed February 6, 2018.
  12. ↑ 2012 Aussie Millions Poker Championship (A $ 250,000 No Limit Hold'em - $ 250,000 Challenge) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed February 6, 2018.
  13. ↑ 2014 Aussie Millions Poker Championship (A $ 250,000 No Limit Hold'em - $ 250,000 Challenge) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed February 6, 2018.
  14. ↑ 2015 Aussie Millions Poker Championship (A $ 245,000 + 5,000 # 21 The LK Boutique Challenge) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed February 6, 2018.
  15. ↑ 2012 Macau High Stakes Challenge Super High Roller (HK $ 2,000,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed February 6, 2018.
  16. ↑ 2016 World Poker Tour National (WPTN) - Philippines ($ 196,000 + 4,000 No Limit Hold'em Triton Super High Roller Series (Event # 3)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed February 6, 2018.
  17. ↑ Triton Super High Roller Series - Montenegro (HK $ 250,000 No Limit Hold'em - Short Deck Ante Only 250K) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 14, 2018.
  18. ↑ Triton Super High Roller Series - Montenegro (HK $ 1,000,000 No Limit Hold'em - Short Deck Ante Only 1M) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 20, 2018.
  19. ↑ World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) 2019 (€ 100,000 No Limit Hold'em Short Deck - King's Super High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on October 21, 2019.
  20. ↑ partypoker Millions Super High Roller ($ 25,500 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 13, 2020.
  21. ↑ partypoker Millions Super High Roller ($ 51,000 No Limit Hold'em - Short Deck) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 13, 2020.
  22. ↑ partypoker Millions Super High Roller ($ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em - Short Deck) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 13, 2020.
  23. ↑ partypoker Millions Super High Roller ($ 100,000 No Limit Short Deck Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 20, 2020.
  24. ↑ Poker Hall of Fame - Ivey and Devilfish listed on pokerfirma.com on July 22, 2017, accessed July 24, 2017.
  25. ↑ RaiseOnce on Pokerstars on highstakesdb.com, accessed February 15, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Ivey, Phil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ivey Jr., Phillip Dennis (full name); RaiseOnce (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poker player
DATE OF BIRTH 1st February 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Riverside , California , United States