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Phil Ivey, considered by many to be the world’s best poker player, passed former leader Daniel Negreanu, to take first place on the all time money winners list for poker. The list is based on player winnings in live event tournaments. Phil Ivey increased his lifetime earnings to $12,802,783 by earning $600,000 for his 2nd place finish in the 2010 Aussie Millions $100K Challenge tournament. This moved him ahead of former leader Daniel Negreanu by a little over $400,000.
As a highly respected poker professional, Ivey has won a reputation as a top opponent in poker tournaments. His first big win was at the $2,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Tournament in 2000 and since then, Ivey has been a major force in professional poker. In 2002, Ivey won 3 WSOP tournament bracelets and tied the record for the most WSOP wins in a year. Making it all the way to the WSOP Main Event final table in 2009, Ivey added another $1.4 million to his lifetime tournament earnings.
In 2009, Ivey added 2 more WSOP bracelets, bringing his total to seven World Series of Poker bracelets, which puts him in sixth place for the most bracelets won. Ivey is the youngest poker player to win seven WSOP bracelets and no one except Johnny Moss has won so many bracelets as quickly. He has also made it to seven WPT final tables, winning one WPT title along the way. The UK Gaming awards, Bluff Magazine and All In Magazine selected Ivey as the 2006 Poker Player of the year and it was not unexpected that he is now the leading all time tournament money winner.
Ivey is a member of Full Tilt Poker’s Team Full Tilt, an elite group of some of the world’s best poker pros, alongside Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson, John Juanda, Jennifer Harman, Phil Gordon, Erick Lindgren, Erik Seidel, Andy Bloch, Mike Matusow, Gus Hansen, Allen Cunningham, Patrik Antonius and Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan.
When Ivey is not busy sharpening his poker skills, he can be found working to aid his favorite charities. In 2009. he was the host of the Congressional Awards Charity Poker Tournament in Washington, D.C.. where he played poker with members of the Senate, Chiefs of Staff from both the House and the Senate and other members of the House of Representatives.
