Doyle Brunson is generally considered either one of the best poker players of all time or THE best poker player of all time. Phil Ivey is generally considered to be one of the best players right now or THE best player right now. A match up between these two would have to be pretty intriguing to any with even the slightest interest in poker.

Phil Ivey, ever the gambler, was willing to play a game of Doyle Sez where Doyle gets to pick the games. They played six-card Razz with the best low of 75432. "I played that a lot 30-40 years ago and it’s a tricky game," Doyle wrote. He says that Phil caught on the game pretty fast, but Doyle held all the cards and beat his opponent. "I’ve got some more games for him if he wants to continue," Doyle continued.

When it was all said and done Doyle won $2 million dollars. Somehow I don't think Phil Ivey is quite done with him though.

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High Stakes Poker has just announced it's players for season 5. For the 5th season they are raising the minimum buy-in to $200,000 so it should be pretty exciting. Whenever there is a game with that kind of money, you know Phil Ivey isn't far behind.

High Stakes Poker has just announced its lineup of stars and professionals for its fifth season, and it’s sure to generate excitement as the list includes some of the most well-known poker players in the world, as well as the top two finishers of the 2008 main event.

Phil Ivey will be joined by such pros as Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Laak, Howard Lederer, Barry Greenstein and 2008 WSOP champion Peter Eastgate. It should be pretty exciting as towards the end of last season players were buying in for as much as $500,000. Sounds right up Phil's alley.

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The great thing about Phil Ivey is that he doesn't discriminate. He'll play any game if the stakes are right and he'll take anyones money. Even if it's David Rabin (one of the New York Press's Most Loathsome New Yorkers, apparently), owner of the New York nightlife hotspot Lotus and president of the New York Nightlife Association. From an interview at Curbed:

It's this great mix of everything from food guys to hip hop guys to Wall Street guys to sports guys. Annie Duke played twice. Phil Ivey played twice and cleaned us all out. It's just a 5/10 game, so theoretically shouldn't be that expensive, but people tell me it plays like a 10/25 game. You need to bring $5k to the game. So a lot of us want to have a recession game now, and play a little more hospitably for the next six months. We'll see.

I'd have to wager that this played out exactly the scene in Rounders where Mike McD turns the car around and heads to the Ivy League kids house.

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John Juanda, fresh off his win of the WSOPE Main Event, ran into Phil Ivey at Full Tilt Poker this weekend with the same results of everyone who seems to run into Phil Ivey at Full Tilt, defeat. The Poker News Blog with the story:

John Juanda has the big blind and picks up 5-6 off suit. Phil ivey raises it up to $3000 under the gun and it is folded to Juanda who calls.

The flop comes 5-8-6 rainbow and Juanda raises with around $5K and Phil Ivey makes the re raise. Juanda then moves all in with the maximum of $30K and Phil Ivey calls showing 9-9 for an overpair.

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Since January 1st 2007, HighstakesDB.com has been keeping track of online play in Omaha and Texas Hold Em. Since July 1st 2008 they have added their HORSE results. I decided to do a search of the all time leader at Full Tilt Poker and imagine that, it's Phil Ivey at $6.47M dollars. The all time loser? noataima at over -$7m. In depth analysis of Phil Ivey's results after the jump.

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