Phil Ivey Takes Top Money Spot

Full Tilt Pro Phil Ivey Takes Top Money Spot

Already known as the world’s best poker player, Team Full Tilt’s Phil Ivey just keeps on moving forward. Now he has earned the highest place on the All-Time Money list for poker that is based on tournament winnings in live events. Ivey’s second place finish in the 2010 Aussie Millions $100K Challenge tournament that awarded him $600K put him over the edge to bypass previous leader Daniel Negreanu. While boosting his already awesome career tournament earnings to $12,802,783, he now betters Negreanu’s career winnings by $400K.

Ivey proved that the best just keeps getting better when in 2009, he not only took two World Series of Poker bracelets, but also finished seventh in the World Series of Poker Main Event. And if his new All-Time Money list status is any indication, 2010 is sure to be very exciting for Ivey as well as for his fans.

Growing up in New Jersey, Ivey began his career on the felt in Atlantic City, where he earned his place as a high-stakes player before joining the live tournament circuit in the year 2000, at age 23. And what an entrance he made, as he quickly earned his first World Series of Poker title, after taking down Phil Hellmuth and Amarillo Slim in the $2,500 Pot-Limit Omaha event.

Then in 2002, Ivey earned three more World Series of Poker bracelets, by reigning victorious in the $1,500 Seven-Card Stud event, the $2,500 Seven-Card Stud Hi/Lo event and the $2,000 SHOE event. But he was just getting started, because in the next two years, he won a World Poker Open event, as well as two Bellagio and two Commerce events to sweeten his bankroll, in addition to making several World Poker Tour final tables, and all of this was achieved by the time he reached the ripe old age of 25.

Ivey’s fifth World Series of Poker bracelet came in 2005 in the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event. He also made two World Poker Tour final tables within that year, and went on to finish in second place in the World Series of Poker Circuit Event at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe, before winning $1 million in the Monte Carlo Millions tournament. A mere 24 hours after that feat, Phil pocketed another $600,000 by finishing first at The FullTiltPoker.Net Invitational Live from Monte Carlo.

Named Player of the Year by the UK Gaming awards, “Bluff Magazine” and “All In Magazine” in 2006, Ivey just kept on winning with a second place finish in the $5,000 Omaha Hi/Lo event, and a third place finish in the $50K HORSE event at the 2006 World Series of Poker, walking away with a total of over $800K. Then, in only three days, he stacked up over $16 million by playing in the heads-up Phil Ivey vs. Andy Beal challenge.

He continued to rack up the winnings in 2007 by taking $120K in the “Earphones Please” episode of “Poker After Dark” and moving on to make the final table in the 2007 World Series of Poker $5K HORSE event. This continued into 2008, as Ivey joined in the World Poker Tour Championships for the eighth time and won his first World Poker Tour title.

In the 2009 World Series of Poker, Ivey added his sixth gold bracelet by winning the $2.5K No-Limit Deuce-to-Seven Lowball event and took home more than $96K, then took his seventh bracelet in the $2.5K Omaha/Seven-Card Stud Hi/Lo event for a win that yielded more than $220K.

To date, he has cashed in a very impressive 36 World Series of Poker events, which is just one reason the folks at Full Tilt are so proud to have him onboard. With seven World Series of Poker Bracelets, one World Poker Tour Championship and a whopping $12.8 Million in Career Tournament Earnings, everyone agrees, Ivey is quite a catch.

Look for the man many call the “Tiger Woods of Poker,’ all-American Poker icon, Phil Ivey, at the Full Tilt Poker tables, because that is the only place you will find him playing online!