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03-20-2009 , 05:15 PM

#151

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03-20-2009 , 05:24 PM

#152

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Originally Posted by timex

He thinks it over for a second unsure whether to except a free massage from this 9.5/10,

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03-20-2009 , 05:30 PM

#153

GuinnessNH

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Ivey wife.

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03-20-2009 , 05:35 PM

#154

Degeneral

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wow they look happy

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03-20-2009 , 05:42 PM

#155

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Originally Posted by ActionJeff

I think the other most important thing about Ivey is the man literally has an aura surrounding him. Ask anyone.

It doesn't matter what he does. Kind of like how Patrik Antonius can 4-bet A2o and flop A22 vs. AK. He does ****, and it just works, except on a whole other level. 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.

I'm probably getting these stories confused cuz one was Mastr in LA and one was JC Alvarado, don't know where so forgive for mixing details. Anyone one of them was at some aggro talkative table. Ivey walks up and everyone just stops talking and looks scared. For the rest of the day, everyone is just staring at Ivey, watching him. He really has an aura, like everyone just watches everything he does and immediately looks away if they come close to making eye contact.

He just plays every hand and tramples people, in between hands he slouches in his chair and texts away, occasionally throwing chips into the pot while texting. Cuz who the **** is gonna break out the rule book on him anyway?

At some point this big black dudes walks up to him and hes carrying a buncha bags and he gives them to Ivey and leaves. Ivey pulls a belt out of one and just puts it on. Keep in mind literally every person at the table is staring at him all the time, and most of the people who aren't in a hand in a close proximity.

He takes his watch off, this $80k watch, opens the bag, and pulls out some lotion. And he puts lotion on his wrist where he was wearing the watch. Slowly applying it while everyone watches transfixed. Then he puts the watch back on, goes back into a bag, and grabs a thing of gummy bears and starts putting them in his mouth. Then he turns his head and looks my friend right in the eye, as though just noticing that everyone in the room is staring at him and never even considering that he was doing an abnormal thing. And he pulls a gummy bear out, holds it up to him, and goes "ya want one?"

hahhaa that's too clean

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03-20-2009 , 05:46 PM

#156

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Originally Posted by GuinnessNH

Ivey wife.

For some reason I cannot believe this.

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03-20-2009 , 06:03 PM

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Excellent thread, lol at the guy that turned down gummy bears from Ivey. wtf

I was suprised the first time I saw Ivey, he is tall, and def has an aura.

I live 5 minutes from him (brag)

Look forward to my first wsop experience with him though, I played with a lot of pros last year but no Ivey.

More stories!

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03-20-2009 , 06:04 PM

#158

Victor

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i told my ivey story a few times but here it is again.

im at the cage, talking to the manager and filling out some paperwork for wire xfer back to my bank, when a hand reaches over my shoulder with a check and i hear dude say, "i need this cashed stat."

im like wtf thinking "who the *** is this clown" and i turn around and its fckn ivey and hes kinda jittery and he half shrugs and half smiles and says "i gotta get in the action."

obv manager leaves me hanging and does iveys business first.

cliff notes: ivey cuts me in line at the cage and smiles at me.

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03-20-2009 , 06:15 PM

#159

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Originally Posted by Victor

atleast u were a good boy and didnt complain

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03-20-2009 , 06:15 PM

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http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/poker-b...ng_of_life.php

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#434 - WSOP Notebook #7 - Phil Ivey and the Meaning of Life
Posted by Michael Craig

Phil Ivey is a beautiful human being. I say that without irony or sarcasm. As much as it’s possible to admire someone solely for their philosophy and operating procedures as a gambler, I admire Phil Ivey. He is constantly trying to drum up action and though he can (and does) haggle with the best of them, he’ll bet without the nuts. With Phil, the betting window is always open for business.

In addition to bets on himself, he was taking action on combinations of himself and Allen Cunningham and himself and John Hennigan. Howard Lederer wouldn’t take action on the Ivey-Hennigan combo and tried to point out, along with David Grey, the disparity in the price he was offering on the parlay versus the price on himself.

It was very complex and David said at one point, “No Bub. It’s the reciprocal of four-ninths.”

Phil Ivey, who is a beautiful person, said, “Youi guys know all the math and ****. I just want to bet with my friends.”

A few minutes later, Phil was going around the room, encouraging people to bet with him and good-naturedly chastising him when they wouldn’t. When someone turned him down by saying, “I don’t gamble,” Phil was dumbfounded.

“What’s the point of life if you don’t gamble?”

You could argue that it’s wrong to express any admiration for a gambler and you might have a point. Gambling - the type that Phil Ivey and everyone else here is involved in - is an utterly selfish activity. Nothing is being produced. It’s a zero-sum game. A mediocre school teacher is at least trying to contribute to the education of children. An options trader is gambling, but his gambling contributes to the liquidity of the financial markets, which makes it possible for companies to raise money and the rest of us to invest for our children, for retirement, etc.

But Phil Ivey has it exactly right. What you produce for the world is obviously important. But what you contribute to yourself is what keeps you going as a human being. That period of uncertainty, between when you commit to something - representing a legal client, teaching a child, betting on a baseball game - and the outcome is where life’s excitement is. What’s the point of life if you don’t gamble?

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03-20-2009 , 06:19 PM

#161

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19 #250L - London Journal #16L - Million Dollar Cash Game #26 - Take This Job and Bet on It
Posted by Michael Craig
At about 8:20 PM, after the action restarted, it took a few hands but the huge hand seemed to loosen everybody up. Lindgren asked Ivey, “How much would it take for you to get a desk job for a year?”

This was defined pretty vaguely but Erick explained, “You have to get a desk job and hold it for a year. What’s your price?”

Howard adds in, “And you can’t bet on anything at that job.”

Phil asks, “How much money, Erick, or how much of YOUR MONEY?”

Erick: “Yeah, how much money of mine that I wish I had? But you won’t have any trouble getting a job. You ever hear of affirmative action?”

Phil: “I’d need it. How about this? You write down the number on a sheet of paper but if I say yes, it’s action.”

Erick: “Pencil and paper, Table One!”

Lindgren predicted the handicapping of such a bet. “I think your number would be $20 million. You’d say $10 million but you wouldn’t be able to for $10 million.

Ivey: “What if I get fired?” After thinking about it, he added, “I wouldn’t do it for $100 million. I like my life too much.”

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03-20-2009 , 06:25 PM

#162

Zpaceman

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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

wow, mike, now i remember this - i was at Juanda's table and saw the smoking masseuse - ivey exchange. classic.

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03-20-2009 , 06:25 PM

#163

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From Brandon Adam's blog a while ago:

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Phil Ivey busted early and came over to our table a bit drunk. He wanted to bet props. I took him up on it for some reason, at 10k per flop (I got 10k if it came 2/3 or 3/3 red cards, he got 10k if it came 2/3 or 3/3 black cards). I had an edge in the bet b/c I could, for example, limp with a black J-9 or go all-in with a red 2-7 (which makes for an interesting maximization problem, by the way, as you’re playing for nothing but you risk losing the prop bet option). All I can tell you is that this was the day for black. Black black black black, Brando is down 104k. If you want a “What am I doing with my life?” moment, lose 104k in props.

I guess Phil Ivey might be the world’s premier gambler at the moment. And, for the record, I do believe that whoever you’re talking about, you have to add the “add the moment” part. This is a high volatility business with some sickness thrown in. So here’s my evidence for Phil being on top now…. Kenny Tran and I see Phil at the bar (after props) and tell him that a game might go down in one of the rooms. Phil says, “I don’t have any money”. Kenny says, “Surely your credit is good around here”. This conversation continues for a bit, then Phil says, “Wait a minute, I do have money.” He had truly forgotten that he had money, but then, five minutes later, he showed up with a Ziplock bag that had $700k+ in it (mostly cranberries) and said, “You never know when things are going to go down.”

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03-20-2009 , 06:38 PM

#164

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The scientific scale of ballerness is defined in units of Ivey.

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03-20-2009 , 06:39 PM

#165

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Full article here:

http://www.bluffmagazine.com/magazin...-Craig-464.htm

Here's some bits from it:

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Despite my initial skepticism, Phil Ivey blew me away on every possible level. There was his demeanor, his commitment to fairness and openness in gambling, his style, and, of course, his skill.

These games between Andy Beal and the pros are the most interesting story in the history of poker. Phil Ivey completely hijacked that story, establishing himself, in this unique non-public but ultra-conspicuous game, as the best poker player alive and maybe the best of all-time.

Objectively, three days of poker can’t do that. But legends grow from moments. In fifty years, no matter what happens to Phil Ivey, people will talk about what he did in these three days.

Today, I got to know Phil Ivey, which isn’t easy. To start with, Ivey is uncomfortable to watch. (He is also uncomfortable being watched, which is ironic considering how intensely he watches others.) His stare is penetrating, and he does not focus it only on opponents.

Still, it was fascinating studying Phil at the table. While barely moving, he still conveyed athletic grace and coordination. His fingers seemed uncommonly long, bending around cards and chips like spiders. Whatever his posture, he always appeared relaxed. Every day, when Beal would tire and everyone around would wonder how much longer the game would go, Ivey alone sunk into the moment and accelerated.

Ivey’s most interesting move was what I called “Riffle Thinking.” He combined his deadly stare and casual coordination with the chips to study Beal while considering an important decision. Contemplating a raise on the turn or river, Ivey would suddenly become very deliberate. Without moving, it looked like he was about to fold. But he wouldn’t. Then he would take eight chips in his hand, like he was an instant from betting. But he didn’t.

He wasn’t trying to fake action. Instead, he seemed to freeze time and consider what would happen in his world if he bet, and what would happen in that same world if he folded. All the while, he would stare at Beal, contemplating these two opposing futures while silently asking, “What are you really afraid I’ll do?”

“If I lose today,” Phil Ivey told Andy Beal on Thursday morning, “I’ll go to school and work for you.”

“You can actually make more money on Wall Street than playing poker.”

“I know,” Phil admitted. “I just never got into that.”

“We could always use smart people on our team. But now I have to stop talking. Otherwise, I’ll lose millions of dollars.” The headphones went back on.

“That was my plan,” Phil said, flashing a smile.

Ivey was moving in for the kill. He emptied all his racks and stacked the chips in front of him in irregular multi-tiered towers. When he sat upright and faced Beal, they looked like a giant womb, nearly $15 million, growing taller, fuller, and wider.

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03-20-2009 , 06:44 PM

#166

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Just took a look at Ivey's wiki page because of this thread and it's been vanadalized lols.

This is what it says atm if anyone's interested:

Ivey was born in Riverside, California and moved with his family across the country to Roselle, New Jersey as a three-month old.[2] He crafted his game playing skills amongst his co-workers at a New Brunswick, New Jersey telemarketing firm in the late 1990s. One of his nicknames, "No Home Jerome", stems from the ID card he secured to practice in Atlantic City in his teenage years. He was mainly taught be Daniel Allen Spavin Haigh and Adrian "****face" West. He become great friends with Daniel but with Adrian their relationship fell apart as Adrian disrespected Phil when he **** in the corner of Phil room. As revenge Adrian made a vicous and sickening attack on mrs Ivey and raped her in a near by park. This attempt shocked the world, he lives at 36 Haigh Park, Kingswood in Hull. Also In 1995 he got Spavee forever tattooed on his left bum cheek. [3] His other well-known nickname is 'the Tiger Woods of Poker'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Ivey

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03-20-2009 , 06:51 PM

#167

Orlando Salazar

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Ok I programmed a fake phil ivey phone number into my phone and fake called/showed it to a bouncer at Drais. That place is impossible to get in...unless you know Ivey and are a good bull****ter. Funny thing is, Phil doesn't even go to that club!

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03-20-2009 , 06:53 PM

#168

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Back in the day when 50/100$ was the high stakes on FTP, Ivey used to fart around from time to time in the micros (.25-50c). The following hand took place on one of these tables.

Me: 44
Him: ?

From the button i call a standard raise and Ivey comes along also from the BB.
Flop comes KcQc9s, and initial raiser checks from early position and so do i.
Ivey bets out Pot which was prolly like 6$ at this point, making it a total of 12$
EP dude folds and i pop Ivey for my remaining 18$.
Ivey tanks then folds.
I show my 44 and he types "Nice Play"
I can die happy.

It's kinda sad when that's the highlight of ur poker career, but maybe that's a small reason why i can totally identify with the OP here.

The Legend of Ivey lives on...

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03-20-2009 , 06:56 PM

#169

Sonny Bunz

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There is nothing about Phil Ivey that isn't cool.

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03-20-2009 , 07:03 PM

#170

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Originally Posted by Orlando Salazar

awesome

so is the Beal cardplayer article

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03-20-2009 , 07:10 PM

#171

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Originally Posted by parker_posey

This sums up how good Ivey is. He can call closing the action in the BB and still get to act last post flop.

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03-20-2009 , 07:20 PM

#172

Tiltyjoker

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Originally Posted by Ra_Z_Boy

This sums up how good Ivey is. He can call closing the action in the BB and still get to act last post flop.

perks of ftp ownership obv.... plus online was more shady back then ;p

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03-20-2009 , 07:38 PM

#173

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sticky more stories..

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03-20-2009 , 08:45 PM

#174

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'07 Aussie Millions, Phil is returning to play from dinner break eating a slice of pizza. A security guard, unaware of the aura, almost face palms Phil as he tries to enter the poker room saying he cant bring the pizza in. Phil just gives her the Phil Ivey look, bins his dinner and proceeds to walk in, she then cards him! Right behind her is a giant poster of Phil promoting the Aussie Millions, he doesn't do what 99% of us would do and point at the poster and make a scene, he just shows his ID and makes his way back to his table.