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February 10, 2006
In 2000, Phil entered a number of events at the freeroll pokerparty tournament. His old standby - seven card stud, allowed him to place 12th in the $1500 event, but his new love of pokerparty com hold'em was stronger, and he placed 5th in the $2000 no-limit event. What was really surprising, however, was that this 23-year old kid was so versatile. Against a very strong field of opponents, Phil won his first gold bracelet in the $2500 pot limit Omaha pokerparty freeroll tournament.
When Phil Hellmuth won the WSOP main event in 1989 at the tender age of 24, he was compared to Stu Ungar, because "Kid Ice" had been so young when he won in 1980 and 1981. Over the course of his playing career, Ungar had the most dominating record for pokerparty .com main-event, NL tournament wins in the world. Hellmuth has gone on to win nine WSOP bracelets, and is certainly a worthy pokerparty champion. But strategy changes in this kind of tournament, said "Miami" John Cernuto, the 2003 champion. "Starting out with the same amount of chips, there's going to be a lot more hands that you need to play," said Cernuto, who came to big-time pokerparty after President Reagan fired him and his fellow air traffic controllers for going on strike a couple decades ago.
However, with no disrespect to Hellmuth, Ivey is the real deal when it comes to pokerparty dominance. He is an all-around, freeroll pokerparty tournament and live-play fiend. He plays with an intense, instinctive style that's hard to defend against, and he is so focused at times it's unnerving. Ivey simply dominates any tournament he plays in. He cashed in three pokerparty com events at the WSOP in 2000, then three events at the 1st Annual World Pokerparty Challenge in Reno. After that, he cashed twice at the LA pokerparty Classic, and twice at the World Pokerparty Open in Tunica. As good as that sounds, he was just warming up.
Four cashes in the 2001 Legends of Pokerparty event in Los Angeles followed, and Ivey had three cashes and an $80,000 first-place win at the 2002 LA Pokerparty Classic. All that pales however, when you compare it to the 2002 WSOP, where Ivey cashed six times, and three of those were gold-bracelet wins! He won the $1500 7-card stud pokerparty .com event; won the $2500 7-stud hi/low tournament, and also won the $2000 S.H.O.E. tournament. Again, Phil showed mastery in many different forms of pokerparty com, and his legend grew. Gowen is cagey about how much she earns but dropped a hint when she said she could have paid for her house in cash.
