Bill Ivey Poker
| Bill Edler | |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | The Stunning One |
| Residence | Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. |
| Born | February 11, 1964 (age 57) Evanston, Illinois, U.S. |
| World Series of Poker | |
| Bracelet(s) | 1 |
| Money finish(es) | 7 |
| Highest ITM Main Event finish | 23rd, 2007 |
| World Poker Tour | |
| Title(s) | 1 |
| Final table(s) | 2 |
| Money finish(es) | 8 |
PA Online Poker. PA Online Poker Community 888 Poker PA Promo Code Party Poker PA Promo Code Parx Online Poker Promo Code PlayMGM Poker PA Promo Code. Bill Ivey; Scores for Bill Ivey. This page displays tournament finishes by PocketFivers that meet our Leaderboard Criteria. Erik Seidel describes Ivey as possessing a “searing intelligence.” In 2005, while playing a sparse tournament schedule, Ivey made two final tables in World Poker Tour events and two in WSOP Circuit events. Then in June, he won his fifth WSOP bracelet in a $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event. At number 3, Phil Ivey stands with immense proud owning around $100 million. He has secured a world poker tour title and due to his awesome playing skills, he also goes by ‘Tiger Woods of Poker’. At a young age of 23, he already had 3 World Series in the poker bracelets.
William Edler (born February 11, 1964) is an American professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada. He has a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
Edler won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 2007 by claiming the $5,000 buy-in shorthanded No-Limit hold'em tournament. The win earned Edler over $900,000.
In 2007, Edler cashed in the money for the first time in the $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event Championship coming in 23rd place out of a field of 6,358 players, winning $333,490.
Edler has also had success in heads-up playing, winning the inaugural $10,000 buy-in Heads-Up Poker Championship in Compton, California in 2007.
In addition, Edler won the September 2007 World Poker Tour title at the Gulf Coast Poker Championship, winning $747,615.[1] At this event he set the record for the greatest come back in World Poker Tour history. With only 17 players left out of 256 entries with only 2 tables left,[2] Edler had only 2 x $1,000 chips left and was unable to meet the blinds of $4,000/$8,000. Edler went on to win the event, making this the biggest comeback in World Poker Tour tournament history.[3]
Edler also finished 6th at the March 2007 Bay 101 Shooting Star WPT tournament, winning $160,000, and has cashed in six other WPT events.
As of 2010, Edler's total live tournament winnings exceed $3,425,000.[4] His 6 cashes at the WSOP account for $1,306,489 of those winnings.[5]
References[edit]
- ^Bill Edler Wins Gulf Coast Poker Championships
- ^Gulf Coast tournament details
- ^2007 Gulf Coast Poker Championship live updates
- ^Hendon Mob Database: William Edler
- ^World Series of Poker EarningsArchived June 13, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, worldseriesofpoker.com
Phil Ivey calls himself 'the greatest poker player of all time,' but a casino in Atlantic City has accused him of being something else: a cheat.
In a lawsuit, the Borgata claims Ivey pocketed more than $9.6 million by cheating at baccarat, the card game made famous by James Bond where the object is to pick the hand with the value closest to nine.
As a well-known poker pro who has won nine World Series of Poker bracelets and nearly $22 million in prize money, Phil Ivey was allowed to make a lot of requests. When he visited the Borgata in 2012, he requested a private pit, a particular set of playing cards and an automatic shuffler. Initially the hotel was happy to oblige the gambler, but now the casino thinks he made those requests just so he could cheat, reports CBS News correspondent Vinita Nair.
The casino claims in court documents that Ivey and a female accomplice studied the edges of the playing cards for tell-tale imperfections. Once Ivey knew the value of those cards, he could then make big bets when those cards were re-dealt. It's a tactic called edge-sorting.
Gaming consultant Eliot Jacobson said playing cards often have irregular patterns along the edges because of printing errors.
'The casinos should be more careful with the cards they use, but the truth is that most of the decks of cards that are out there have some sort of design flaw,' he said.
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According to the Borgata lawsuit, Ivey visited the casino four times in 2012. He was betting as much as $100,000 per hand.
The casino says edge sorting gave Ivey at least a 6.5 percent edge over the house, or more than $6,500 dollars won for every $100,000 wagered.
'By itself, there's nothing inherently wrong with edge sorting,' Jacobson said. 'The question is what else did he do? Did he involve the dealers in some sort of collusion? Did he work out some sort of deal with the card manufacturer?'
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Borgata officials finally caught on after Ivey's fourth visit, when they learned he had been accused of edge sorting by the London casino Crockfords, which withheld more than $12 million of his winnings just two months earlier.
Ivey filed a lawsuit to force Crockfords to release his earnings, and this time he's betting on the law.
Ivey's representative told CBS News that Ivey takes the matter seriously and will defend himself against any questions of his integrity. Edge sorting has never been declared illegal anywhere, which means Ivey's cases could have the potential to set a big precedent.