Once again, eff you Phil Ivey's wallet.
With a second place finish at the
2010 Aussie Millions $100,000 buy-in event,
Phil Ivey has inched past
Daniel Negreanu as poker’s all-time tournament money winner.
Ivey banked $600,000 in the event, giving him just shy of $13M in earnings. This puts him ahead of Negreanu by around math math math $413,000 or so.
Dan Shak, who for his sake we hope has finalized his divorce from Beth, won the tourney, banking $1,200,000. He finished fourth in the same event last year.
Get the full breakdown here.
In related Daniel Negreanu news, he’s doing well at the WPT Southern Poker Championship, which is currently on Day 2. He’ll need to finish math math math around 1st place to overtake Ivey again. Get full WPT chip counts here.
And in related Aussie Millions news, Day 1B of the Main Event has wrapped and a guy with a funny last name is the chip leader. Get Day 1B chip counts here.
Tagged as: 2010 Aussie Millions, Dan Shake, Daniel Negreanu, featured, Phil Ivey
The secret to Patrik Antonius' winning online poker ways...
2009 was a sick, sick year for nosebleed cash games on
Full Tilt.
Not surprisingly, two of the most consistent online winners over the years had the biggest 2009: Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey.
Poker-King has a breakdown of the biggest winners and losers on Full Tilt for 2009. Antonius banked almost $9M, while Ivey cleared over $6M.
As for losers? While Tom “durrrr” Dwan had the worst month ever in November, he rebounded in December enough to only be the second most losing player (down $4.34M). Top reverse honors for most money lost goes to Gus Hansen, who ended the year down $5.57M.
Isildur1 finished fifth, down $2.2M.
View the full list here.
Tagged as: featured, Gus Hansen, isildur1, Online Poker, patrik antonius, Phil Ivey
Phil and Luciaetta Ivey during much happier times.
We’re not ones to care much about or break stories on the marital happenings of poker players–it’s none of our business–but seeing that a venerable news source such as TMZ has reported on it, we thought we’d pass along the news that the Tiger Woods of Poker, Phil Ivey, officially got divorced from his wife Luciaetta today.
Check out the TMZ post here.
Tagged as: divorce, Luciaetta Ivey, Phil Ivey
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(Editor’s Note: Portions of the following post appear in our January column in Bluff Magazine)In the January issue of Bluff Magazine, we named our Player of the Decade for each 10 year span of the modern poker era (so starting in the 1970’s). The criteria was simple: what player had the greatest success and most impact on the game in each decade of the modern poker era?
While some decades, like the 80’s, were tight, it was pretty clear for the aughts/zeros/Ohs who the best player was. Below is an excerpt from our column. Go below the fold for excerpts from our 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s Player of the Decades.
Player of the Decade – 2000’s: Phil Ivey
Honorable Mentions: Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Chris Moneymaker
Phil Ivey first really came onto the scene in 2000, winning a Jack Binion World Poker Open event. Since then, he’s amassed over $11 million in tournament earnings and established himself as the best live and online cash game player in the world.
A WSOP Main Event final table appearance in 2009 cemented his status. And even Honorable Mentions for this decade, Daniel Negreanu and Phil Hellmuth, openly admit that Ivey is the best player in the world. Well, Negreanu does at least.
2009’s final table appearance also provided a push for Ivey in the publicity department, something almost solely dominated by the likes of Negranu and Hellmuth until then. He appeared on an ESPN The Magazine cover and countless major media features.
We expect Ivey (and Negreanu and Hellmuth) to be contenders for this title in 10 years as well.
(Buy the January issue in stores for the full column version…)
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Tagged as: Doyle Brunson, featured, Johnny Chan, Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey
Once again, F U Phil Ivey's wallet.
Interesting thread over at 2+2 on the top winning and losing players in high stakes online games.
The list isn’t totally accurate and is more of a recent history, but still gives a good take on who is crushing and being crushed.
No real shocker, but Phil Ivey topped the list with almost $13M in winnings. Phil ‘OMGClayAiken’ Galfond was second with over $7.6M. Patrik Antonius was third with over $7.2M but actually might be closer to first as he has about $5M from other screen names and websites not accounted for in this list. Also in the top 10 was Mark Vos, a ginger, with almost $3M.
Not in the top 50? Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan. He’s been running bad lately. So good timing on his Full Tilt deal by him.
The bottom 10 was dominated by Cirque founder Guy Laliberté, who had four of the top five losing accounts totaling around $20M. Gus Hansen was down around $5.5M.
Look at the full thread here.
Tagged as: Durrrr, Gus Hansen, Guy Laliberte, high stakes poker, Mark Vos, OMGClayAiken, Online Poker, Phil Ivey
This is slightly different than what our reaction would be...slightly.
The Entities who comprise
Wicked Chops Poker are known to be a lot of things: handsome, well-endowed, and even possible of hitting someone with the occasional zinger.
One thing we’re not known for is being gracious at losing.
So let’s just say that if our hopes of winning a WSOP Main Event title that everyone was pulling for us to win was dashed as our A-K was cracked by a ginger logger’s A-Q, then the LAST thing you’d see us doing is calmly taking a bite out of an apple when the Queen hit on the flop, as Phil Ivey did.
The more likely would reaction would be something like yelling, “You effing ginger logger! Eff you! How the eff do you not take a sponsorship deal??? What’s wrong with you??? Eff principles! And eff everyone here! Eff eff eff!”
Ivey’s reaction soon thereafter was wildly different too, as he was reportedly on Tilt playing Omaha Hi/Lo 30 minutes after leaving the Rio.
Also, as seen below, the Humphrey’s reaction to Ivey’s all-in was different too…kinda cute, actually.
These awesome pics are courtesy of Everest Poker.
Tagged as: Darvin Moon, November Nine, Phil Ivey, WSOP Main Event
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