Phil Ivey is the Stone Cold Nuts - Page 9 - Poker News

technologic · 03-20-2009, 02:50 PM

any stories of his days when he was with juanda negreanu and cunningham? or that crew in general?

Webjoker · 03-20-2009, 02:53 PM

When I saw him at the WSOP this year I was afraid the pokerworld might lose his biggest player ever just because the guy in question (Ivey) didn't care about the game anymore. He looked like he wanted to be somewhere else.

Only story I have is that he had some pocketchange on some basketball game and instead of the tournamentclock the officials put the game on so he could watch it. He didn't look for one second to the table or whatsoever, he just watched the game.

I also remember the all-in every hand blind in the rebuy tournament. Fans were everywhere - it was magical. The guy charisma as no one else in the pokerworld.

flopped da joint · 03-20-2009, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by homeless

Does Phil have any children ? Sex/age if he has ?

wow . too far? you wanna rail his kids now?

Jebez666 · 03-20-2009, 02:57 PM

I'm bringing gummie bears to my next poker game i think thats the secret to Ivey's dominance.

GreyCat · 03-20-2009, 03:03 PM

this thread

lakers game pic
5 stars

Recliner · 03-20-2009, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Codecci

Explain, please.

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Originally Posted by Benholio

The other 20k people in the arena are going crazy. Ivey is just sitting there emotionless like always.

The Lakers won but they lost to the spread. I think Phil lost like $1+ million or some other large sum of money.

Vince. · 03-20-2009, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by 4h8red

Why Ivey is the best:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--Qap3VT_ZY

Watching this brings a tear to my eye.

FoxwoodsFiend · 03-20-2009, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by timex

Played with Ivey 3-4 times, the best stories come from the 3k WSOPE NL event

Ivey was at my starting table, and listening to headphones while everyone was listening to him. I bring sunglasses with me to the table almost every time I play and wore them for the first time to day so I could look at him without him knowing(who am I kidding, of course he knows). Anyways, any time he takes out a headphone, before he can put it back in people are spamming him with questions, I looked like a fanboy by asking whether these events count for his wsop event, he responded "for some of them" and put his headphone back in.

This happened several time, someone asks a question, gets owned, but no one ever seemed to learn so one guy (yuve04 online) tried making a comment.

After Ivey took off his headphone hes like
"hey Phil, nice job in that cash game last night, how'd you finish"
"up some"
"nice, Durrr was playing real bad huh?"
*does the Phil Ivey face*
"that Tom Dwan, was playing real spewy and bad huh?"
"nah, he was playing well"
*puts headphone back in*

And later some super hot masseuse comes by, says like "hey" he doesn't acknowledge her, she taps him on the shoulder, he slowly takes off one headphone and looks up at her very angrily. Shes giggling(clearly nervous around ivey when 99% of the room would be nervous around her) and says "your friend said you might want a massage" (John Juanda had bought him a massage). He thinks it over for a second unsure whether to except a free massage from this 9.5/10, and says
"sure, just don't touch my head or neck.... and I'm hungry, mind getting me like a sandwich"
"sure"
*interupting* "and make sure theres no mayo, I hate mayo"

As she gets back, there is a dispute as to whether there is mayo and he grudgingly accepts

Also, when he busted he value-shoved the river with JT on KQ955 and got called by 55 and didn't expose his hand when every single poker player would expose to show how bad of a beat the took

who does the sympathy show? is that actually standard?

ActionJeff · 03-20-2009, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by augie_

my ivey story:

one time i saw ivey walking across the tournament room at the WSOP

another time, i saw him sitting at a table at the WSOP

see, a lot of people probably have this experience and were tempted to post it but withheld

You're walking around, you look around. You see Phil Ivey. You forget what you're doing and watch him for a while. Or maybe you see him in a casino area, so you move as close as you can without intruding, and try to listen to what he's saying and glance over to catch his mannerisms. Then he walks off with some person/some money.

Next person you know that you see, you immediately go, did you see Phil Ivey over there?? yeah. He's so cool!

We were theorizing the other day on whether someone who doesn't play poker would still see his aura and feel the need to watch him. He's automatically the center of attention in any room even though he never does or says anything.

27offsuit · 03-20-2009, 03:30 PM

Webjoker · 03-20-2009, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by FoxwoodsFiend

who does the sympathy show? is that actually standard?

Yes it is to give yourself the confidence you didn't make a mistake; to make sure it was a cooler, a set-up and mindblowing (wow). Don't act like you don't know this mister FF.

**augie_** · 03-20-2009, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by ActionJeff

We were theorizing the other day on whether someone who doesn't play poker would still see his aura and feel the need to watch him. He's automatically the center of attention in any room even though he never does or says anything.

i don't really think they feel it. for example, some old railbirds would say something to Ivey from the rail while he's playing. someone like me, who feels the aura, would never even think of saying a word to him, even if we were at the same table.

ganj832 · 03-20-2009, 03:48 PM

jeff, your inbox is full, you cant receive anymore pms, says you need to erase some

Dogboy714 · 03-20-2009, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by ActionJeff

People try to bluff him but never in good spots and they always end up in some ****ed position vs. him facing some ridiculous spot and raise.

LOL - unless your name is Brad Boothe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN8_gO1_Njg

Webjoker · 03-20-2009, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by augie_

i don't really think they feel it. for example, some old railbirds would say something to Ivey from the rail while he's playing. someone like me, who feels the aura, would never even think of saying a word to him, even if we were at the same table.

Wow, com'on. Someone is either charismatic or he isn't. Ivey is. When he walks into a room you feel/see/sense that the guy has a cool over himself comming from him not giving a f*** about anything (or anyone in the room most likely). He is rich and doesn't care but if he would be poor he would feel the same. That's why he's succesful in poker (no fear to lose it al) - that's why he's swinging it at the craps. The guy has more cool than Barry Shabaka Henley describes in Colleteral, damn!