Phil Ivey Gets a Divorce

It has been reported that Phil Ivey and now ex-wife Luciaetta were granted a divorce in a Nevada court room on December 22nd, 2009.  Phil Ivey is often considered the best poker player in the world and some even consider him the best player to ever sit down at the felt.  Ivey has accrued about $12M in tournament winnings over his career.  Add the many millions he has won playing the highest stake cash games in the world and the various endorsement deals he has and you can begin to understand the net worth of Phil Ivey.  The divorce files were sealed so it is still anyones guess how much Phil Ivey is really worth at this time.

Phil Ivey was often considered the “Tiger Woods” of poker so the divorce couldn’t have come at a more interesting time.  The differences between the two however are many and there is no evidence as to why Phil Ivey and his wife decided to call it quits.  Ivey, unlike Woods, will keep all of his endorsement deals and continue to be the face of poker in the world.

You can find Ivey playing online at Full Tilt Poker, where he frequently plays the largest cash games online poker has to offer.  Full Tilt offers 27% rakeback to all new players.  The instructions on how to receive Full Tilt rakeback can be found at the top of this site under the rakeback drop-down menu.

Jeffrey Lisandro Wins 3rd 2009 WSOP Bracelet

Jeffrey Lisandro did the incredible last night when he won the $2.5K razz event at the 2009 World Series of Poker.  This is his 3rd bracelet of the series, each coming from playing a form of stud poker.  His first win was in the $1.5K seven card stud event and the second came in the $10K world championships of seven card stud eight or better.  Finally he finished the trifecta of stud variation victories winning the $2.5K razz event in commanding style.

Before this win Lisandro was already tied for first in the World Series of Poker player of year standings, but this win catapults Lisandro into a very commanding position.  One of the few men that still have a chance at catching him is Phil Ivey, who is actually the only other poker player to have won 3 bracelets in one World Series, which he did back in 2002.

Jeff said that he will be taking a break now because he’s a little burned out, but he did also mentioned he will likely play a couple more tournaments in the hopes of taking down the recording setting 4th WSOP bracelet.

Lisandro has been around poker for a long time, but this World Series has really made him a household name.

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Full Tilt Poker Brings Back the $25K Heads Up Championship

After the success of the last $25K NL Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha heads up championships Full TIlt Poker is bringing back the $25K no limit heads up tourney.  The best heads up players from around the world are sure to compete in this big online event including Full Tilt Poker professionals like Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen and Patrik Antonius.  The last time this tournament ran David Singer took down the title when he beat “whitelime” in the finals.  The other two notable mentions included Andy Bloch and Brian Hastings.

This tournament is set to begin at 3Pm EST on Saturday May the 23rd.  The tourney will play down to the final four and then go on break for the evening.  The final four will go back at it at 4pm EST on Sunday the 24th and play down to a champion.  There will likely be sweat tournaments again where you can play in the semi-finalist’s tourney who you think will win it all.  Then if you win your sweat tournament and your player wins the $25K heads up championship you will win an extra prize.

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This tournament could be what brings a relative unknown into the poker spotlight.  Make sure to book the weekend off in order to rail all of this high stake heads up poker action.

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Full Tilt has hands down the most poker pro’s playing at their site.  You can play in games or tournaments with some of the most well known players in the world including Gus Hansen, Phil Ivey and Patrik Antonius.  This can also help your poker bankroll because if you bust out a Full TIlt pro in a tournament with 30 or more players you win the buy-in of the tournament back up to $200.

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Antonius Accepts Tom “Durrrr” Dwan’s $1.5 Million Heads Up Challenge

If you haven’t heard, Tom Dwan, aka Durrrr, put out a challenge to any player in the world to play him in high limit heads up no limit hold’em or pot limit omaha at 4 tables simultaneously for 50,000 hands.   What makes the challenge really interesting is that if Dwan wins his challenger must pay him $500K, but if Dwan loses he pays the challenger $1.5 Million!  The 3 to 1 ratio shows just how confident Dwan is that he will come out on top, but it is also a very good value challenge for many top poker professionals.

Patrick Antonius was the first player to accept Tom’s offer to play in this heads up Challenge with Phil Ivey and David Benyamine close behind.

Full Tilt Poker has already created “durrrr challenge” tables in the $200/$400 PL Omaha section of their software in preparation for the challenge.  Antonius had the choice and decided to play PL Omaha.  The challenge will start in a week or two and we will keep you posted on the outcomes.  Whatever happens you can be sure that this event will be followed with the utmost attention and will be very good for online poker as a whole.  It’s anyones game as these are two of the best poker players in the world.  One thing that we can be sure of is there will be many big pots with lots of money exchanging hands and some huge bragging rights on the line.  One player will end the challenge with a big increase in their poker bankroll, while the others may be completely crippled.

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