Phil Ivey (born 1976) is considered the best poker player in the world by many experts. He is known as “the Tiger Woods of poker”, since he is a natural who has won many large poker tournaments. Phil Ivey has won nine of the prestigious bracelets in the World Series of Poker (WSOP). Furthermore, he has won a World Poker Tour (WPT) event a single time where he won about 1.6 million dollars – his greatest tournament prize so far. Phil Ivey has reached the final table in the World Poker Tour an incredible nine times, which is a WPT-record.
Phil Ivey is also a shark when it comes to online poker. If you look on the website highstakesdb.com, a website that monitors the winnings and losses of high rollers, you will see an incredible graph: Phil Ivey has won more than 19 million dollars on cash games since august 2007. In comparison, Phil Galfond, another great poker player who played on Full Tilt Poker with Phil Ivey, won about 9 million dollars. This shows how good Phil Ivey really is. Even though luck is part of poker, Phil Ivey shows us time and time again that poker is primarily a skill game. He excels in both live poker and online poker games, which is also quite unique. Many great, even famous, poker players have almost exclusively had success with live poker, since you can use your hand reading abilities and psychological skills more easily in a live poker game. In online poker a different set of skills are required that not all poker players possess. But Phil Ivey has the skill to play both online and live poker. He is truly an exceptional poker player.
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