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.

Daniel Negreanu – 01/2010 – in Full Contact Poker

 

Isildur could easily have over $10 million now on Full Tilt if he had better game selection and if he didn’t play six, seven, or eight games at the same time against Phil Ivey and Durrrr. He’s a great player, but you need everything; you need money management.

Patrik Antonius – 02/2010 – in CardPlayer

Poker players can agree on nothing. So the fact they do agree on Phil Ivey is a rare circumstance. Phil Ivey has a sixth sense like all good poker players do, but he has like a sixth-and-half sense. He has the ability to read situations better than the next person. In poker it’s hard to say anybody’s the best, but yeah, they’re pretty unanimous. Hardly anybody says, ‘Ah, he gets lucky.’ Everyone agrees he is the best.

Norman Chad – 11/2009 – in Las Vegas Sun

I realized that people are getting better at poker. Whereas I used to sit down at a table and presume people were bad until they show me that they aren’t, now I play and presume people are good until they prove otherwise.

Gavin Griffin – 01/2010 – in PokerStars Blog

If Phil Hellmuth played in Texas, back in the 1970s, and acted the way he does now, he wouldn’t be alive for the week.

TJ Cloutier – 01/2009 – in Poker Player

I don’t like seeing durrrr just own off the poker world and just win all the money from all the other fish, I don’t mind if Patrik [Antonius] and [Phil] Ivey win. I just can’t stand durrrr. I can’t stand durrrr’s face, durrrr’s voice, and durrrr’s eyes. I can’t stand anything about durrrr. He’s just an arrogant social retard. He’s spastic. There’s not much more to say than that. [...] I’m sending him broke before the end of 2010. That’s my goal.

Luke “_FullFlush1_” Schwartz – 09/2009 – in PokerListings

Is Luke Schwartz the new Devilfish? He’s rude, obnoxious and I cannot wait to bust him up. This kid is not the kind of player you feel you can learn from – you just want to bust him.

Antanas “Tony G” Guoga – 01/2010 – in PartyPoker Blog