Phil Ivey made his first splash in live tournaments in 2000, at
  a World Series Event, winning a Pot Limit Omaha event and
  taking home 195,000$. In 2002 Ivey won three World Series
  Events in one year, solidifying his reputation as one of the
  toughest competitors around.  From 2002 to  2005 Ivey
  placed in the top 25 of the World Series of Poker Main Event
  three times, and won another Pot Limit Omaha bracelet, a
  prize worth 635,000$.


  Ivey has achieved a record of making the final table big WPT events eight times,
  finally winning the LA Poker Classic, a prize worth over 1.5 million dollars.  Altogether
  he has earned close to 3 million in cash a WPT events.

  In November 2005 Ivey won the Monte Carlo Millions, a prize worth 1 million dollars,
  and the very next day took home first place at the FullTiltPoker.Net Monte Carlo
  Invitational, for another 600,000$.  As of 2008 he has made over 10,000,000$ in
  tournament prize money. 

  In 2006 Ivey played heads-up against Texas billionaire Andy Beal, at stakes of
  25,000$/50,000$, and won over 16,000,000$ in three days.  Ivey was playing on
  behalf of "The Corporation", a group of professional poker players who pooled their
  money and took turns playing against Beal.  Formerly "The Corporation" had lost
  10,000,000$ to Beal, but after losing to Ivey, Beal claimed that he was quitting poker
  for good.

  Phil Ivey is one of the most feared opponents in the game today, and with good
  reason.  He regularly plays at Full Tilt Poker, where he is a member of the design
  team, at limits of 2,000$/4,000$ Limit, and 500/1,000$ No Limit. He resides in Las
  Vegas with his wife Lucietta, and enjoys golf, prop betting, and video games.