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Phil Ivey’s biography

Phil Ivey
Phil Ivey (49 years)
USA
Male
2/1/1976
over $54 211 084
Offline prizes
exact amount is unknown
Online prizes
The best result:
$3 582 753 or $AU4 000 000 (1st place in $250 000 Challenge at the Aussie Millions Poker Championship 2014)
Main achievements:
11 WSOP bracelets, 7th place at WSOP ME 2009, top-20 best world players, 3 trophies of Aussie Millions Poker Championship
Can be found by nickname:
No Home Jerome
PokerStars: RaiseOnce
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Phil Ivey is a guy who began his career being a teenager, using fictitious documents. His love and affection for poker is so strong that he continues to show excellent results up to this very day. However, now Phil is not a poor casino regular in Atlantic City, but a famous high roller and a frequent guest of the most expensive games.

Phil Ivey: Net Worth, Total Winnings & Successes

If we talk about Phil Ivey net worth, then on the Web you can find numbers from $100 to $125 million. So the common question "Is Phil Ivey broke?" we can confidently answer in the negative.

Ivey didn’t focus on either online or live poker. Instead, he achieved heights in both. His winnings in tournaments have repeatedly exceeded a mark of $1 000 000 each. Most of the games he plays have high buy-ins.

For a long time, Phil played with FullTilt Poker patches, but then he created his own poker room and training site, known as Ivey League and started to represent it. In May 2017, the story of Ivey League ended.

Phil Ivey And WSOP

Among all the tournaments Ivey participated in, the role of the World Series of Poker in his career is the most significant. And it's all due to the bracelets. Ivey added the first bracelet to the collection in 2000, but 2002 was a truly special year. Phil’s play was amazing: he added 3 more victories to this result. 

Overall, the guy has got 10 WSOP bracelets in tournaments of 6 different poker types. He also took 7th place in the most prestigious event of the poker world - WSOP ME in 2009. In total, he hit the prize zone of the World Series over fifty times. Besides that, Phil had played at the 8th WPT final tables, which is a record indicator.

In the poker community Ivey has become famous not only as a strong professional, but also as a big fan of betting. From time to time the poker player places high stakes for games or bets with someone for a tidy sum.

Phil Ivey’s biography

Ivey’s Successes From 2019 To Present

Phil had a series of astonishing wins in the World Series of Poker Europe in 2019. After a few tournaments, the total winnings of Ivey increased to more than $3 million. All the stars aligned, and the player continued cashing in high in the following years.

  • 2021. It was the Super High Roller Bowl Europe, where Phil was 1st in No Limit Short Deck Hold’em. He paid a buy-in of $25,000 and won over $400,000. As the runner-up in $50 No Limit Hold’em, he grabbed a prize of $546,000.
  • 2022. The $100,000 No Limit Hold'em in the WSOP took place in Las Vegas, was Phil’s next milestone. He was in the runner-up place in the tournament standings. The monetary reward was $1,172,659 which was 10 times more than Phil paid.
  • 2023. $1,007,000 was the largest Phil’s prize this year. He was a champion of $60,000 + 2,400 No Limit Hold'em of Triton Poker Super High Roller Series.
  • 2024. $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship, which was the WSOP Bracelet Event, raised Phil’s popularity. He was a winner and supplied the collection with the 11th bracelet.
  • 2025. Phil Ivey manages to grab substantial cash almost each year, and 2025 isn’t an exception. He was 4th at Triton Poker SHRS. Except for the $1,482,000 prize money, Phil’s GPI score increased to almost 100 points.

Today Phil Ivey’s name can often be found in the high-stakes reports or among the winners of major events. The guy continues to demonstrate his skills, and therefore, he is rightly called the best poker player in the world.

As stated in Wikipedia, Phil Ivey is "an unspoken best poker player in the world."

Interesting Details About Phil Ivey

  • Phil Ivey’s journey in poker started at 18 years old, in Atlantic City. As it is not allowed to gamble under the age of 21 in America, Phil used fake documents in the name of Jerome Graham. Since then, he has got his moniker "No Home Jerome"
  • According to Ivey, he’s going to win at least 30 WSOP bracelets.
  • As for "Phil Ivey wife", the poker player used to be married to Luciaetta Ivey for 9 years (2002-2009), but the couple divorced.
  • A popular casino "Aria" has called one of the rooms in honor of the poker player - "The Ivey Room" (in 2019 it was renamed to "Table 1").
  • After winning one of the tournaments, Ivey left $90 000 as tips to the dealer.
  • Phil has his own "support team" - Pat and Mel Humphries. They have known the poker player almost from the very beginning of his career, and now the couple often attends tournaments with his participation, supporting the guy in every possible way. Unfortunately, in March 2019 Pat died.

  • Phil Ivey poker

    • "Phil Ivey lawsuits" is an interesting topic. Phil Ivey was twice charged with fraud – by casinos "Crockfords" and "Borgata". In the first case, court allowed the casino not to pay the winnings to the player; the second case continues even now – the casino requires a player to pay out $10 000 000. Ivey has already lodged appeals concerning these decisions, and he intends to win both cases, since the guy does not consider himself a swindler.
    • A $250 000 Challenge tournament at Aussie Millions is called Phil Ivey’s tournament, as the poker player won it more times than other players (3 times).
    • Phil Ivey was several times nominated as an applicant to enter the Poker Hall of Fame. Finally, he was elected there together with David "Devilfish" Ulliott in 2017.
    • Since November 2017, Ivey has been an ambassador and a strategic advisor of Virtue Poker (a decentralized P2P Poker platform that is created with the use of Ethereum).
    • In 2018, Phil Ivey hit his first prize zone at the WSOP in the last 4 years, but the player still hasn’t taken the prize money of just over $2 000 away (for the 533rd place at Colossus for $565).
    • In October 2025, Phil Ivey is on 9th place in the All Time Money list, whilst the US All Time Money List placed him in the 6th position.
    • Phil Ivey also established a partnership with the World Poker Tour. According to the contract signed in 2022, he became a tournament ambassador to promote poker throughout the globe.
    • One can often see Phil referred to as the GOAT: the Greatest of All Time.
    • Phil Ivey is the runner-up in the number of WSOP bracelets in the collection. Phil Hellmuth is the record holder nowadays as he owns 17 golden rewards.

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