And This Year’s Online Poker American Idol is…Phil Ivey!

December 5, 2008

Is Phil Ivey unstoppable or what?

To go by his Full Tilt Poker standings it’s hard to think otherwise. Like the Phelps of poker, Phil Ivey is showing himself this year to be a champion of champions, up this year approximately $7.6 million dollars on Full Tilt Poker alone.

In the first two days of this month, he played an additional 1,241 hands and added another $540,000 to his 2008 stack. That comes out to more than $400 per hand!

His closest contender for the title of the Biggest Winner, Tom “durrrr” Dwan, only weighs in $4.1 million.

Most of these winnings have come from high stakes No Limit Texas Holdem ring games. In a single hand of $500/$1000 No Limit Holdem Ivey played just last week, he won $355,000 – in a single hand. And who do you think was in that pot with him but his seemingly perpetual runner-up, Tom Dwan.

A recent estimate averaging Ivey’s winnings over the span of 2008, he’s made about $87 for every hand he’s played this year.

Written by FullTilter · Filed Under Full Tilt News 

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