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Player Profile: Phil Ivey

Published by admin on February 9, 2009

Phil Ivey is a professional poker player, considered to be the Tiger Woods of poker. He is right now one of the most successful poker players in the world.

Phil Ivey was born back in 1976 and spent most of his early years in a suburb of New Jersey. He started to play poker when he was a teenager. He found a great way to win some money, a way that is mostly unknown to people at that age. His first job was working as a telemarketing salesman, but in the same time he took a lot of time to study and play poker in order to beat his friends. During those times he had the following nickname: “No Home Jerome”.

One of the main characteristics of his game play is that he is very aggressive. Also since he is a professional poker player you are certainly going to find it very difficult to read his face. You will see Phil Ivey to be almost sad even in jackpot situations, this way no one can see or understand what’s going on. He is a fan of the iPod and the L.A. NBA team.

The statistics made by other online poker websites are claiming that Phil Ivey managed to win so far more than $7 million. There are also 5 WSOP bracelets, the most important is the one he received in June 2005, when he managed to score big a prize of $635,603. Phil Ivey can also be found at the World Poker Tour tournaments, even if so far he didn’t manage to win any outstanding prizes there.

Phil Ivey is currently part of the Full Tilt Poker online poker room. This way you will be able to find him at the online poker tables. He can be found also at the low stakes tournaments, giving this way a chance to everybody to play with him. But most of the time you will be able to encounter him at the high stakes cash games.

Phil Ivey loves to play the high stakes cash games, but he is also a hell of a poker tournament player, and you can find him at many other tournaments beside the famous WSOP and WPT.Here you can see an interesting clip with Phil Ivey bluffing: