Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan both make inside straight draws on the turn. This 4 on the turn coolers Phil Ivey in what will be the biggest poker pot in live televised poker history.
Phil Ivey has topped the all time money list in poker tournament winnings. He overtook Daniel Negreanu who he’s been trailing since before the 2009 WSOP Main Event. Had Phil Ivey not lost with AK to Darvin Moon’s AQ this feat may have been accomplished back at the final table of that event. Daniel Negreanu states in his poker blog that Ivey is the most consistent winner in all the different styles of poker in the live high stakes poker games. He also states that :
“It’s my belief that Phil Ivey is the best poker player in the world, and that includes every format. I’ve played live with him, and cash, Hold’em, Stud, Omaha, whatever, and he is just the most consistently good player at everything- include online based on what his results look like. I don’t think anyone has won more money online, live play, or tournament poker, than Ivey. Pretty strong.”
Phil Ivey has proved himself to be the best in the world. He is has the best winning record in online poker cash games *, live cash games, and now world class poker tournaments.
Poker All Time Money List:
1st Phil Ivey $12,802,783
2nd Daniel Negreanu $12,432,367 *
3rd Jamie Gold $12,201,061
4th Phil Hellmuth Jr $10,991,871
5th Scotty Nguyen $10,955,557
6th Joe Hachem $10,856,216
7th Peter Eastgate $10,630,471 *
8th Allen Cunningham $10,398,118
9th Erik Seidel $9,814,424
10th T.J. Cloutier $9,787,199
11th John Juanda $9,730,882
12th Men ‘The Master’ Nguyen $9,221,767
13th Carlos Mortensen $8,894,713
14th Joe Cada $8,626,099
15th Jerry Yang $8,263,393
16th Johnny Chan $8,232,651
17th David ‘The Dragon’ Pham $8,194,767
18th Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson $8,032,900
19th Justin Cuong Van Tran $7,956,635
20th Paul Wasicka $7,628,127
Phil solidified his first place in our Top Ten Poker Accomplishments of all Time. Congratulations to Phil Ivey.
* Not sure what Ivey’s winnings are compared to Chip Reese and Doyle Brunson
* Daniel may have more than noted here
* Peter Eastgate just made money in a tournament and is not reflected here.
Durrrr giveth and everyone else taketh away. After winning over $5 Million from Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Isildur1 has officially lost his entire Full Tilt Poker bankroll. After losing over $3 Million to Brian Hastings last weekend, Isildur1 was fighting for the rest of his bankroll against Brian Townsend and Cole South. Townsend took $352,000 off Isildur1 to leave him with just around $70,000. It did not take long before Cole South took the rest of Isildur1’s roll, leaving him down $2,623,203.
As a result of the recent high stakes action, the top of the cash game leader board has changed significantly. Brian Hastings is the current leader with over $4.5 Million in winnings over 25,705 hands. In the two spot is “The Man” Phil Ivey. Ivey is up $3.35 Million in just 19,806 hands this year. Brian Townsend is in the third spot with $1.6 Million. Townsend has had to grind a bit more for his winnings, logging in 44,349.
The fourth place spot went to | Scubba |. He won over $1.54 Million over the course of the year but has really worked for it. He played 331,364 hands to win his Million.
Nanonoko gets a special nod in this article for persistence. Although he has only won $899,000 this year, he has probably put in more hands than any winning player in poker. He has played 2,075,811 hands for an average profit of .43 cents per hand.
As with any level of poker, all of the money at these nosebleed stakes has to come from somewhere. Isildur1 took the top spot in futility with his loses of over $2.6 Million. Even after losing $5 Million to Isildur1, Tom Dwan still only ranks 2nd on this list with $2.575 Million in loses. Martonas, no stranger to this list, is in 3rd with $2.4 Million in total loses. TheItalienStyle and scout326 round out the top five with loses of $1.6 and $1.3 Million respectively. Other players showing some significant loses include both Cole South and Ziigmund. Even after taking chunks out of Isildur1, South is down over $1.285 Million on the year. Ziigmund has had some monster sessions as of late but is still down $690,952.
In a recent development, Gus Hansen has announced that he is taking a break from poker. Deemed a “study break”, Hansen said that he needs to reevaluate his game plan and come out with a new plan of attack in 2010. The schedule for the 2010 WSOP was recently released and perhaps that is some motivation for him to improve his game. Hansen is still one of the best players on the planet that has failed to win a WSOP bracelet.
With the holidays just around the corner, it is unlikely that we will see any significant changes in the overall leader boards, so it looks like Brian Hastings may be the big winner for the year. Phil Ivey yet again proves to be a consistent winner in all facets of the game. 2010 promises to be an interesting year. Will Isildur1 make a comeback? Will Gus Hansen regain his mojo? Can anyone figure out a way to beat Ivey? Time will tell and we will keep you well informed on all of the high stakes online action.
The first battle is over, and the dust has cleared in one of the most epic poker matches of all time. This was not a single session of poker, and the war is not over.
What started as a multi-table match between Tom Dwan aka durrrr and Viktor Blom aka Isildur1, ended up with Viktor Blom taking on the top echelon of Full Tilt Poker pros, and Ilariu Sahamies aka Ziigmund. Tom Dwan would end up losing $5 million dollars to Viktor Blom. Viktor would end up using that $5 million to take on Phil Ivey and Patrik Antonius. Viktor would lose just under 3 million to Phil Ivey, and lose the biggest pot in online poker history to Patrik Antonius. Then Viktor would regain some losses Vs Patrik and take some off Ziigmund. After this Brian Townsend would come in like a white knight and take a million off of Viktor. Then after that, Ziigmund would take a chunk out of him. This truly was like watching great white sharks turn on an injured killer whale. Viktor Blom aka Isildur1 was unable to cope with them sitting out out on him after winning large sums of money and would go on perma tilt. Not only would he lose $5million that he won off of Tom Dwan, but he would lose $1.6 million of his own or staked money.
Highlights:
The mother of all online poker pots:
Now that the dust has cleared, both durrrr and Isildur1 are back in $500/1000 pot limit Omaha games and licking their wounds, and trying to re-build a monster bankroll. I see a second battle coming to the nosebleed high stakes games at Full Tilt Poker very soon.
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