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Contents 1 Better pic? 2 Yeah really, which videogames did he play? 3 Removed line about being renowned in video game circles 4 Recent blogish additions 5 Earphones Please 6 BTW 7 WPT Final Tables 8 blondepedia 9 blondepedia2 10 other Philip Ivey 10.1 Phil Ivey from Edison, NJ?

[edit] Better pic?

Do you think we could get a better picture of Ivey? The one now doesn't look so good. Just saying. --Code1390 05:41, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Can anyone tell me what video games specifically Phil Ivey played during his stint as a professional player? I've looked all over, but have only managed to find that he was a "phenom" who later moved on to poker. --SonicDeathMonk3y 00:02, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Looking around, I can find it reported that Ivey was born in both New Jersey and California, and that he currently resides in Las Vegas and Atlantic City. As for the latter, both could be true, I suppose, but this site suggests that he lived in AC until a few years ago. [1]. anthony 14:32, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Ah, according to about.com, he grew up in New Jersey, but it doesn't say he was born there. He probably was born in CA but grew up in New Jersey. anthony 14:44, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Yeah really, which videogames did he play?

SonicDeathMonk3y, if you do find out, please post the info here.

Ivey mentioned in this interview that video games were never really a major part of his life, he just happened to respond to a question that he likes to play. It was done by All In Magazine so its credible.

http://www.allinmag.com/article.php?article=79

[edit] Removed line about being renowned in video game circles

In the interview with All-in Magazine [2], Ivey denies the stories that he was some video game star before he became a poker player. Excerpt:

There are a few articles out there that said before your focus shifted completely toward poker, you were known for your phenomenal video game skills. How good were you?

They’re making that up. I played video games, but it was nothing serious. I was above average. Interviewers ask me questions like “Do you like to play video games?” I say, “Yeah, I like video games,” and then they just make up stuff. You say something and they write a phantom story. That’s why I don’t really read about myself too much. People always are going to have something to say, so I don’t put too much into it. If you start worrying about every little thing people say about you, you won’t be able to sleep.

Daleliop1 12:44, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Actually, Barry Greenstein's website noted Ivey's Pac-Man prowess in Greenstein's bio for Ivey [3]

Blongitron 14:06, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Recent blogish additions

Especially crabby is not needed for this article , I saw the pad episode, screenshots are not needed, see WP:POINT ▪◦▪≡ЅiREX≡^Talk 03:18, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Earphones Please

Thanks for the input regarding my "earphones please" submission. I took your commnets to heart, carefully matching the "fair use" lanuage you used in the photo you submitted to the "Poker After Dark" wikipedia article. In addition, I converted the image to low-res, as you used in the PAD article and dropped it down to the bottom of the page. I am also happy to address the first issue that someone raised in this forum, which is that the other photo is quite poor and looks very little like Ivey, although it is admittedly him. I hope this fun-loving photo I submitted, which is one of the most memorable screencaps available from PAD, will be appreciated by all who read this article and also satisfies your (the person who deleted my previous submission) tastes. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by ToothlessGranny (talk • contribs) 19:31, 3 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] BTW

I also refrained from adding "crabby", which I can neither confirm, nor deny, was a little over the top ;)

very well ▪◦▪≡ЅiREX≡^Talk 01:26, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WPT Final Tables

He has been on more than 1 wpt final table. He has never won the a wpt event but I think he has been on 6 final tables. Someone please check and confirm.

[edit] blondepedia

Hi, I run a site called blondepedia which includes player bios and databases for players like Phil Ivey.

To see it, please use the link below...

http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=709

I was just wondering if I could be granted permission to link these kind of pages to the pages of various poker players on wikipedia. I feel it adds a lot to the page, especially in terms of photography which is lacking here.

Please let me know, thx.

You can do what you did here and suggest the link be added, but you shouldn't go to a series of articles and spam the link. In this case, the Ivey page has almost no information, except photos which are readily available everywhere including his official site so there is no need to add any photo-only type links. 2005 02:21, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] blondepedia2

Hi, I tried your suggestion on this page... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mads_Andersen

However, I don't seem to be eliciting a response. Am I doing something wrong, perhaps in my formatting of the message, or is it simply a case of waiting longer for a member of your team to respond? Thank you for your assistance and apologies for being a pain. snoops

It not being added is a response. In general your pages don't merit a link. they have almost no text and just some photos which add nothing to what can be fouind on official sites. 2005 20:57, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] other Philip Ivey

Hi, there's another Philip Ivey who was an anti-apartheid activist; and is famed for climbing an armoured vehicle and turning a police cannon which had purple dye in it on the apartheid police on 2 September 1989 (there's a memorial in Cape Town about it called the Purple Rain Memorial). The following day Cape Town was covered in graffiti saying "The purple shall rule".

http://www.southafrica.to/history/Apartheid/apartheid.htm

[edit] Phil Ivey from Edison, NJ?

I reverted these edits made by IP address 67.85.246.10 which claims Phil Ivey went to Edison High School and played Varsity Basketball and graduated in 1995. The only thing I found for "edison high school" "phil ivey" was a classmates.com site but anyone could have technically signed up as Phil Ivey on that site. Is there a source for this?

Also Hendon Mob lists him as being from Absecon, NJ which seems to go against this. (Maybe from Absecon, went to Edison High School?) Strongsauce 23:58, 18 October 2007 (UTC)