Poker players all over the world have their idols that the aspire to, just like young girls aspire to the top models or actresses. Famous poker players are not only extremely rich and adored, but they also have interesting histories and there are many, many websites that provide that kind of information, such as HighstakesDB. Their rankings and ratings of players gave birth to the idea of poker player profiles that are now accessed by millions of people in search of inspiration. And the best poker player of these days is none other than Phil Ivey, who has an impressive biography and track record.
Phillip Dennis “Phil” Ivey Jr. is an American professional poker player who, although he is only thirty-five years old, has quite the achievements in the poker world. He has won no less than eight World Series of Poker bracelets, one World Poker Tour title and entered the final table at nine World Poker Tours. Ivey is highly respected and people in the poker community see him as the greatest poker player of our times. He first started to play and develop his aptitudes in friendly poker games between employees at his job as a telemarketer in New Brunswick, New Jersey at the end of the 1990s, but has come a long way since then, as he is now referred to as the “Tiger Woods of Poker”.
Phil Ivey has won three bracelets at the World Series of Poker in 2002 alone, matching the accomplishments of three other players worthy of the status of best poker player, Phil Hellmuth Jr, Ted Forrest and Puggy Pearson. But his ambition and determination took him even further, as you can read in his profile on HighstakesDB. He owns two more bracelets from the Pot Limit Omaha, one won in 2000 and another in 2005. Before that, in 2000, he was the first poker player to play and win against Amarillo Slim heads-up at a WSOP final table. Bracelet number six came in 2009, when already the greatest poker player won the $2,500 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball Event of the WSOP. He was playing against a hundred and forty-seven other players. The battle was very long, but very much worth it. His rankings went over the top in the 2010 World Series of Poker, when Ivey registered the highest number of votes for the Tournament of Champions.
Between 2002 and 2009, Ivey winnings amounted to over a million and four hundred thousand dollars. The eight bracelets that he holds set him not only as the best poker player of this generation, but also the fifth of all-time. He is the youngest one of all the players to get to this number and it took him the least of time as well, only ten years. The all-time records don’t stop here, as Ivey also owns one for winning the most bracelets in non-Holdem events.
Phil Ivey plays poker regularly at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, at high stakes tables, known as the Big Game, but he is also a fan of the online poker. According to HighStakesDB.com, he earned almost two million dollars on FullTilt in 2007, a little over seven millions in 2008, six millions in 2009 and three in 2010. HighstakesDB has all the reasons to place him first in the winners list and set him as an example of the best poker player online.