High-Stakes Poker: Phil Ivey Up $700,000 in Three Days
Phil Ivey (pictured), who plays as “Polarizing” on Full Tilt Poker, is up $712,000 since Tuesday, according to HighStakesDB. After taking a brief hit on Thursday morning courtesy of Alex “IReadYrSoul” Millar at the $400/$800 No Limit Hold’em tables on what was once the second largest site in the world, “Ivey was back at the tables a few hours later at the $1,500/$3,000 Eight-Game tables, where he played for a little over an hour against samrostanand Isildur1, winning $49,300 in the process.”
In the afternoon, according to HighStakesDB, Ivey was back at it, dropping $8,000 in 14 minutes in a terse session against Kyle “KPR16” Ray. However, Ivey went up $119,000 after the two battled for another 100 minutes.
HighStakesDB reported that on Tuesday, Ivey made $441,000, saying, “The majority of Ivey’s winnings came from a morning and an evening session at the $1,500/$3,000 Eight-Game tables. His two-hour late morning win was the biggest, as he made $253,500 from 188 hands playing against FinddaGrind, PostflopAction, Isildur1, and samrostanat table Vegan. Ivey’s other big session was an early evening $152,000 heads-up win… against Isildur1.”
According to data posted on HighStakesDB, Ivey is down $2 million since March and $4.8 million since the site began tracking his Polarizing account in late 2012. He is down about $1.4 million lifetime both in Draw Games and Eight-Game and has lost a little less than $1 million in Pot Limit Omaha. There is no game that HighStakesDB tracks that Ivey has profited in since the site began following his Polarizing account.
Ivey (pictured) has played four pots that have topped out at over $100,000, three of which took place on the final day of January 2013 at a $300/$600 Heads-Up No Limit Hold’em table against Millar. Ivey won all three.
On the live felts, Ivey is a nine-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, tied for the fourth most all-time, and has WSOP earnings in excess of $5.9 million, the 21st most in history. He is in the midst of combating a lawsuit from Borgata in Atlantic City after the casino accused him of edge-sorting in Baccarat.
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