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Phil Ivey
Poker has been good to the young people in the last ten
years and that much is certainly true of Phil Ivey. There is little that does not scream success
about this super star of the card tables.
He is an all around great player that is only lacking in one area, a
World Series of Poker main event bracelet.
Other than that, he seems to have conquered the arena and won the hearts
of thousands of fans with his cool game play and composed demeanor. Before becoming a professional poker player,
Ivey worked in telemarketing and was known to be one of the best salesmen that
have ever lived. His uncanny ability to
get people to talk to him has served him well in poker as it has in the sales
world.
It was while working in sales
that he found his taste for poker and blossomed as one of the great players to
hit the scene. His passion for the game
was seen when he secured a false identification card to play in Atlantic City before
becoming of legal age. This was the
start of his career and he quickly learned that the real action was taking
place in Vegas so that is where he headed.
When he got to town he made a big impression right off by winning three
World Series of Poker bracelets in his first tournament year. He followed that with a win of two more
bracelets before moving on to the World Poker Tour and making it a big time
hit. There is little that he seems to be
able to accomplish when he sets his mind to it.
Now
Ivey is in the cash game arena and plays in only a few tournaments. He finds that there is more money and a lot
more talent in the cash games then the tournaments and the time table is much
more lax. This is important to him as he
has a wife that he loves to spend time with and that is not possible so much
when he is traveling the circuit.
Ivey
has earned the title of The Tiger Woods of golf and is proud to be the member
of the loose knit group called “The Corporation” who spent months playing poker
against billionaire Andy Beal. Beal
managed to take over ten million dollars from the group before Ivey sat
down. He won back the original ten
million and added another six million on top of that. Beal has left the poker scene for good after
playing Ivey.
Ivey
was born on February 1, 1976 and at 30 years old maintains the hold that he has
found on the poker world.
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