Phil Ivey Player Profile

Phil Ivey was born February 1, 1976 in Riverside, CA and moved to Roselle, New Jersey when he was 3 months old. Phils first exposure to poker was as an 8 year old, playing against his grandfather, who sometimes cheated in an attempt to teach Phil about the dangers of gambling. At 16, he sat in on an adult game at a friends house, beating all other players. At 18 he got a fake ID and started playing in poker rooms in Atlantic City. One of his nicknames, "No Home Jerome", stems from the ID card he secured to practice in Atlantic City in his teenage years. More recently some have tagged him with the nickname "The Tiger Woods of poker". Phil soon moved to Atlantic city and at age 21 he started winning some big games.

Player Stats

2000: Winner $500 Limit Holdem 1st Annual Jack Binion World Poker Open
2000: Winner $2500 WSOP Pot Limit Omaha
2001: 2nd place $1000 Pot Limit Omaha 1st Annual World Poker Challenge
2001: 3rd place $500 Pot Limit Omaha 2nd Annual Jack Binion World Poker Open
2001: 6th place WSOP $5000 Omaha Hi/Lo Split Eight or Better
2001: 5th place $1000 Limit Holdem -- Legends of Poker
2001: 4th place $1000 No Limit Holdem -- Legends of Poker
2001: 4th place $500 Limit Holdem World Poker Finals
2001: 2nd place $1000 Limit Holdem World Poker Finals
2002: Winner $1000 No Limit Holdem L.A. Poker Classic
2002: Winner WSOP $1500 7 Card Stud
2002: 8th place Wsop $2000 H.O.R.S.E.
2002: Winner WSOP $2500 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo
2002: Winner WSOP $2000 S.H.O.E
2002: Winner $500 7 Card Stud California State Poker Championship
2002: Winner $1000 = 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo & = Limit Holdem Legends of Poker
2002: Winner $1000 H.O.S.E. -- Legends of Poker
2002: 4th place $10,000 No Limit Holdem -- World Poker Finals
2002: 2nd place $10,000 No Limit Holdem -- 4th Annual Jack Binion World Poker Open
2003: Winner $1500 7 Card Stud Bellagio 5-Star World Poker Classic
2003: Winner $2500 Omaha Hi/Lo -- Bellagio 5-Star World Poker Classic
2003: 2nd place WSOP $5000 Razz
2003: 3rd place WSOP $5000 7 Card Stud
2003: Winner $10,000 No Limit Holdem Championshiop Poker, Verona
2004: 3rd place $14,000 No Limit Holdem Monte Carlo Millions
2005: 3rd place $400,000 Grand Final Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament
2005: 3rd place $5000 No Limit Championship World Poker Challenge
2005: 2nd place $10,000 No Limit Holdem Harrah's Lake Taho Poker Festival
2005: Winner WSOP $5000 Pot Limit Omaha
2005: Winner $25,000 No Limit Holdem Monte Carlo Millions
2005: Winner $120,000 No Limit Holdem Full Tilt Invitational

Ivey has also reached numerous final tables on the World Poker Tour (WPT), but has yet to win an event. He has coincidentally lost several of these WPT events by being eliminated while holding the same starting hand each time, an ace-queen.

Ivey is a regular participant in the $4,000-8,000 mixed cash game at the Bellagio in Las Vegas and in February 2006 played heads up Limit Texas Hold'em versus Texas billionaire, Andy Beal. With stakes at $50,000/$100,000, Ivey won over sixteen million dollars over the course of three days. Ivey was playing for "The Corporation", a group of poker professionals who pooled their money and took turns playing against Beal. Earlier in the month Beal beat the Corporation out of ten million dollars. After losing to Ivey, Beal claimed he was giving up poker.

Ivey is a LA Lakers and Houston Rockets fan and can be seen ofter wearing basketball jerseys. During the 2003 WSOP, he wore Steve Francis' jersey and was eliminated in 10th place.

Phils hobbies include video games, propostition gambling and most recently golf.

Ivey is also a part of the design team for Full Tilt Poker.

Phil and his wife currently reside in Las Vegas. He has joked about coming dejected after losing thousands of dollars in cash play games, only to have to console her about losses at the penny-ante level in online poker games while he was gone.

Phil Ivey Player Profile

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