Phil Ivey Public Relations a Total Trainwreck

Phil Ivey

While a number of 2009 World Series of Poker November Nine finalists have found their respective ways to Gambling911.com's Senior International Correspondent, Jenny Woo (Team PokerStars Eric Buchman among them), the most famous of the November Nine, Phil Ivey, finds himself a patch of poison among a forest where, if a tree were to fall and make a loud thump, nobody would hear it.

Case in point:  Phil Ivey's last "media blast" took place on July 17.  His Twitter page declared the following:

New Life of Ivey posted. Phil talks w/reporters about making the November 9 then chats w/Tina behind the scenes. http://pkrrd.com/t/10361

Click on that link and it goes nowhere and probably hasn't since July 17.  Perhaps Team Full Tilt Poker will fix the link in the meantime.  Here's what we were getting Sunday night August 9: "The requested URL /t/10361 was not found on this server."  This is beyond embarrassing. 

Here's the problem we have at Gambling911.com:  Phil Ivey's accomplishment at this year's World Series of Poker making it to the Final Nine is an extraordinary feat.  Few sites covered Ivey's riveting WSOP play more extensively - hour by hour - than Gambling911.  Yet here's the guy who should be the talk of every mainstream publication (forget Gambling911.com, Card Player, Bluff).  Ivey, if handled properly (which he hasn't been thus far), should be doing for poker what Tiger Woods has done for golf:  Reel in new fans.  Heck, Chris Moneymaker wasn't even a poker player's household name and look what that guy pulled off for poker.  Here we are nearly a month out of Ivey making it to the November Nine and there is little talk of this outside the usual poker blogs and online mags.  Gambling911.com continues to give him the props he deserves.

But Ivey deserves better. 

Maybe things will change come November, especially if he wins.  We're keeping our fingers crossed. 

Perhaps someone in the Phil Ivey camp will study the brilliant promotion of UltimateBet.com spokesperson, Annie Duke, during her stint on last season's Celebrity Apprentice to understand how to get things done. 

Unfortunately we suspect these folks have their heads too far up their asses to figure it out. 

Please Phil, you have a little over three more months to exercise your independence and take the media by storm.  Don't let the Man keep you down.

Jagajeet Chiba, Gambling911.com 

Submitted by Jagajeet Chiba on Sun, 08/09/2009 - 20:00
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god this site sucks. i'm

Wed, 08/12/2009 - 12:13 — Guest
god this site sucks. i'm looking for the BS article where you claim negreanu is a racist. where's that piece of cheese non-article

ivey

Mon, 08/10/2009 - 12:06 — Guest
I understand your point....but you are missing one key piece in your article......you don't mention the fact that ivey does not care about his PR....he is just not interested in having the notriety of annie duke, phil h, daniel n, etc.....He likes to have a private life and does not want people all over the world to recognize him and thus bother him for autographs etc. He likes to have the freedom to go to the grocery store on vacation and NOT get hounded by fans/people....i think that is a fair choice... His poker playing ability speak for itself. He is content to have a happy family life, play poker and have a net worth that we mere mortals could only dream of......for him (and probably many people) that is enough.....jeepers - what else is there for a poker player?........I think you should respect his choice.....He has not asked you for all your positve coverage or "props".....therefore he does not owe anyone any PR favours ...... he is not a role model, he is a poker player....and it seems that is all he ever wants to be......For many fans....that is enough...

Ivey the most overrated

Mon, 08/10/2009 - 08:01 — Guest
Ivey the most overrated player in Poker History.

You are a moron

Mon, 08/10/2009 - 13:51 — Guest
Only way some one could think Phil Ivey is overrated is if they knew absolutely nothing about poker. He has one more money than anyone else over the past 7 years in the biggest live cash games in the world. He is the single biggest winner in online cash games over the past 5 years, probably the biggest ever, other than Russ Hamilton and the cheaters at Ultimate Bet who are crooks. If Ivey finishes in the top three in November he will be the biggest tournament poker winner in history. This year at the WSOP he won 2 bracelets bringing his total to 7 and made the final table of the main event in one of the largest fields in WSOP history. Phil Ivey overrated? No he is probably underrated if anything, and whoever posted above me is a retard.

Who's Retarded?

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 10:51 — Guest
If you're gong to call someone retarded you should at least take the time to go to school and learn the difference between the word "one" and "won".

Really?

Fri, 10/23/2009 - 02:09 — Guest
You're going to disregard all that the poster had to say because of a typo? The poster points out that Phil Ivey is the winningest cash player, the winningest online player and soon to be the winningest tournament player in the world ... and maybe of all time. This is undeniable evidence against the asinine assertion that he is overrated. I'm not sure who is worse, the guy who calls the consensus (and as proven as possible in the game) best player in the world overrated, or the one who ignores a solid argument because of a fairly common typo. One's an envious a-hole and the other's a weasel. Tough call. Of course, the two post were probably written by the same envious-a-hole-weasel, so the call may be unnecessary.

espn sucks phil iveys dick

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 15:54 — Guest
He is very overrated whether thats his fault or not is a different story, FTP pastes his face everywhere, espn coverage is basically blowing him.Phil Ivey is a good pro but hes very overrated.He might have 7 wsop bracelets but big deal all the big pros have 3-4 or more.The winnings mean nothing as cash purses go up every year for every event around the world.Even during a global recession WPT purses went up.Thats like comparing tiger woods winnings to Jack nicklaus winnings.different times different purses.Fields are different alot of his bracelets were in small field tourney, just like Howard lederer and Huck and barry just to name a few.Phil Ivey had some $ backers that allowed him to enter a shitload of events early on.Hes not worth as much as youthink as he loses a shitload on side bets.Hes a degenarate gambler.Hes gone broke more than twice.Bottom line he is a very good player who is erratic sometimes rellying on rep to bully people around on tables.Best ever? best right now? no not by a longshot just my 2 cents and to the poster above who collects his data from his wikipedia profile, get an original thought.FYI is pretty short stacked in the final 9 and will probably be done in the first 12 hours

Well said...

Fri, 10/23/2009 - 14:03 — Guest
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