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Phil Ivey

How many gold bracelets would one person need?  Well, if you are talking about the WSOP bracelets with Phil Ivey, he thinks about 30: he won 5 of them before he was 30 years old. The first WSOP title came at the age of 23 where he beat Phil Hellmuth and Amarillo Slim in a Pot-Limit Omaha event. Two years later, in 2002, he won three more WSOP titles, along with two Bellagio and Commerce tournaments, and one World Poker Open tournament and several appearances in the World Poker Tour final tables.

Phil was born in Riverside, California on February 1, 1976, and relocated to Roselle, New Jersey, where, at the tender age of eight, his grandfather taught him 5 Card Stud; by age sixteen he was playing backroom money games and by eighteen had a fake ID.  He was playing live tables in Atlantic City.  Phil now resides with his wife in Las Vegas, Nevada.

In 2005 Phil won his fifth WSOP bracelet in the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event, and added two more WPT final table appearances to his credit and placed second in the WSOP Circuit Event at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe. He also won $1 million for first place in the Monte Carlo Millions, and just 24 hours later he placed first in the "The Full Tilt Poker Invitational Live from Monte Carlo", winning another $600,000.

In 2006 he was named Player of the Year by All In Magazine, Bluff Magazine, and the UK Gaming Awards and appeared at two more final tables in the WSOP that year and another in 2007. After appearing at eight final tables in the WPT, Phil finally took down the title in the 2008 Championship in the Los Angeles Poker Classic.  

His $10 million in career tournament earnings moves him into the top 10 all time money winners in the world; it is no wonder he’s been given the nickname of “Tiger Woods of Poker,” he is a true master of his game.
 
When he is not at the tables bumping heads against some of the world’s greatest players, or fulfilling his obligations at Team Full Tilt Poker, he enjoys golf, video games and basketball; traveling and going to movies with his wife and he will tell you his favorite sports team is the one that wins him the most money.

If there is a game running in Bobby’s Room at Bellagio, look for Phil, he will be the one with a lot of chips in front of him.

*As of the 2009 WSOP, Ivey has claimed two more bracelets - in $2,500 Deuce to 7 Low and $2,500 Omaha/7 Card Stud hi/lo and is in 7th place going into the November Final Nine of the Main Event. His total tournament winnings as of mid July are over $12,000,000.*

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Phil Ivey

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Phil Ivey
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