High Stakes No Limit vs Phil Ivey, Isildur1, + MORE!

Phil Galfond reviews High Stakes No Limit Hold em hands played vs Phil Ivey, Isildur1, and more High Stakes Poker Legends for the first time on KZbin!
❗️ Everything You Need to Beat Your NLHE Game: ➡️ galfond.link/KickstartNLHE
🌟 Learn to Beat MTTs Fast: ➡️ galfond.link/Beat-MTTs
For the first time - let's do a no limit hold em hand review of a $300/$600 NLH session that Phil played vs legendary poker players like Phil Ivey, Viktor Blom, Sam Rostan, PostflopAction, among others.
It's been a while since online no limit poker has seen high stakes action with names like this. Could your mental game hold up to the variance? If you enjoyed this high stakes no limit strategy video please let Phil know by commenting asking for more and leaving a like.
Remember to subscribe for more high stakes poker hand reviews and turn on notifications so you don't miss any Galfond Challenge Livestreams!
Follow Phil:
Twitter: / philgalfond
Instagram: / phil.galfond
TikTok: / phil.galfond
Credits:
Producer: Thomas Deming-Henes
Music: Epidemic Sound, Henyao

[@finalfantasy1201]

I love every time Phil says "this is just a fold, he's like oh I guess I called or raised" lol

[@KevinWeatherwalks]

Coupled with his bashful sigh-laugh cracks me up every time

[@switters8679]

Your use of quotes is questionable

[@AcrylicGoblin]

"It's 2014, nobody was very good"😂

[@NoSauceNoSauce]

So funny. @AcrylicGobin I laughed when he said that too. Lol

[@alexandruion7660]

Crazy how poker has changed over the past 5-10 years. Now some NL 200 grinders are human computers and use solvers and in 2014 you guys were playing 50-100k with gut instincts. So glad u made this video Phil. 👍

[@PhilGalfond]

My pleasure 🙂

[@3rjc11]

These 10 year post mortems are awesome. Seeing how the game and your interpretation of it and how it has evolved in real time is nothing short of a time capsule.

[@lale4tw656]

Ty Phil. We need more videos like this

[@PhilGalfond]

Happy to make them! What specifically do you want to see? Any nosebleed NLHE hand review?

[@TopSetUK]

@@PhilGalfond Hand reviews in general are super valuable. Doesn't matter if it's nosebleeds, Micros, Mid-stakes - the thought process in any given situation/context is what matters.

[@Josh-vv6ti]

@@PhilGalfond Yes please more vids like this! Ty

[@jdaz5462]

You're my new go-to poker channel. You earned a new subscriber today. I'm 50 and suck at poker. I've only been playing a few years. I want to get better.

[@johnd5619]

This was so goddamn fun to watch Phil. I hope you do more NLHE vids like this.

[@cameronmartin719]

Thanks for the great content, Phil! I'd love it if you considered spending a significant amount of time in these videos discussing game dynamics/meta. Who did you think the best player in the game was, who did people fear, who were you targeting, who were other people in the game targeting, who was shot taking, who was on a big heater/downswing, who seemed to be tilting, who was a crusher at another variant but behind the curve in this format etc. I think a lot of us are very interested in getting to know the players better, or at least your perceptions of them at the time and also now looking back. Yes, hand history reviews are very cool, but it's storytelling and characters that I think the poker community finds most captivating.

[@parttimepoker6859]

These breakdown comparisons of now to then are a pretty good watch. Subscribed for more vids like this one!

[@momentumcharting6700]

Awesome Phil! More content like this please ♥️

[@willmundell6741]

You are a wealth of poker knowledge. Thank you sharing these hands and reflections. You make such tricky poker dynamics so easy to understand. This is poker education gold!

[@tuesdaytv]

Even before this, there was once a moment where Phil Ivey was sitting by himself at a 300/600 HU table on FTP and Galfond sat with 100bb. On the very first hand, it goes raise, 3bet, call. Flop is 963 I beleive and they get it all in. Ivey turns over 99 and Galfond turns over a small set (obv). The board bricks and Galfond leaves. I cant find it anywhere anymore, but I remember reading about, watching a hand replay, and hearing Dwan mention on an episode of HSP once and I would love to hear Phil talk about dealing with that mentally.

[@patrickclay3537]

Oof.

[@BWOOHAHAHAAA]

Standard

[@da3v1ls93]

Honi soit qui mal y pense "Evil to him who evil thinks"

[@tuesdaytv]

@@da3v1ls93 yeah

[@Mary-xc1ev]

I watched a video on this channel he talked about this hand. I think he said it was his first or one of first 300/600 games. Then he told he had later in another game vs Ivey, I think also 300/600, set over set and got immediately a message on his phone from Ivey "Top set is nice" something like that. And then got called by Ivey.

[@dimenigma9274]

great content keep it up Phil! Awesome to see your thinking process then and how it differs from now.

[@calpoker21]

these videos are amazing ty so much pls keep making em

[@PhilGalfond]

Thank you 😊. I will!

[@denniskrook2925]

Nice content. Extremely funny you remembered the 10jS hand :)

[@Pisco514]

Thanks for reviewing an old no limit holdem session, I really liked it!

[@ahanj-f1k]

Would love to see some more of this!

[@clintarmstrong2546]

This is amazing content, keep it up!

[@kimikmusic]

great video, thx, more of these would be nice

[@briankim9781]

22:53 these videos are awesome. Please keep them coming

[@digitaldavid5633]

Enjoyed this style. Keep it up.

[@NoSauceNoSauce]

9:44 "You have to keep in mind, this is 2014. Nobody's that good."

[@vector222]

this is amazing. please post more vids like this

[@buyamiracle5179]

I really love this content. Even if you are one of the best players, you still make some mistakes. So, I can learn to allow myself to make mistakes and learn from them. Many times, when I made a big bad play, I cannot stand it and ended my session lol.

[@heavylight16]

Very interesting thx for your work Phil

[@chazz1me]

Please do more of these! So insightful!

[@PhilGalfond]

Can do! Thank you 😊

[@mattbaxter926]

This was so funny I look back in my data base and do the exact same thing wondering what the hell I was doing 😂

[@Johnny-cz2wv]

Whats interesting to me is how 2023 you thinks about those multiway pots. Like in the JT 98 hand, it should be kinda standard for postflopaction to just check range.I know back in 2014 people were bethappy oop but still, smart people knew they should add tarps

[@heklen]

After watching this I really wanted to go back to 2014 in a time machine with my 2023 NL50 skills 😅

[@PhilGalfond]

🙃

[@da3v1ls93]

I use to run 50nl way back in 2012. Then poker was outlawed in Australia In 2017. nowadays I would get crushed in those games

[@anthonykent00]

This was fun!

[@rblongfellow]

Very nice look back 👍

[@jesperkristensen5875]

Even before watching.....NLHE with Galfond, F-ing yeah 😀

[@savvasthemis]

This was great. Love the thought process.

[@PhilGalfond]

Thank you! 😊

[@siuphlupek]

love to see a little bit no limit holdem

[@cyberclipxp]

Yes. Do more please!

[@Mad1Lee]

There was a lot of street poker played at those stakes online back in the day. Some of those old pros would be the marks if they step into those stakes online against GTO wizards today.

[@kevdawg55]

Here’s something I’ve always not understood about bluffing…in the king5 hand we don’t block hearts but only a few king high combos of hearts we lose to, so we’re bluffing the best hand if they have missed hearts?

[@samuelmckinnon6976]

Hey Phil, if you are time limited but can spend 10-30 minutes every day studying and dedicated to learning poker, what would you fit into it? Thanks

[@heinrichh.6369]

love to see no limit holdem

[@juchemz]

Wild that you remember hands from that long ago

[@jondan3798]

great vid

[@TechnoBeatz]

nice to watch

[@Bawookles]

Great stuff! When you frequently say stuff like "this is what we did in 2014" etc. etc., I would love if you would say WHY it's different now. So anytime that comes up, please say "this is what we were doing in 2014 but we don't do it anymore in 2023 because it's better to do...." Thanks!

[@AcidOllie]

I enjoyed this but could you just pause when reflecting rather than going back and forward back and forward. I thought I was going to have an elliptic fit :)

[@easstttt]

Phil we need a part 2

[@user-es9ny7ip3x]

This shit is dope. Thanks for breaking it down

[@PhilGalfond]

My pleasure!

[@jeffwinchell7444]

These are always good Phil….I enjoy watching old hands and you breaking it down and being like, “Ok, Phil! …I don’t know why I’d even do that but. Ok”. Lmao Good stuff and you don’t take yourself too seriously, one of my fav poker pages. Keep up the good work buddy!

[@davidoconnor1773]

I haven't played online in over 10 years, what are the percentages next to the screennames? I assumed initially that they were equities, but most of these hands didn't see showdown. Does software automatically compute ranges for you now?

[@EthanBriggs]

It looks like it's equities with hands not going to showdown probably assuming equity for a given range.

[@PhilGalfond]

It’s equities, but for any non-shown hand, it gives them a range of 100% of hands. Not useful for actual analysis.

[@davidoconnor1773]

@@PhilGalfond ty sir!

[@johnweber5283]

How did you come up with your screen name/what’s the story behind it?

[@michaelgrayrn4579]

GREAT!

[@Marsbars-iz3iv]

I respect your game Phil! First time watching poker on t.v years ago was you vs dwan and Ivey lol. It was incredible game, you bet like 8k and I was like that would take months for me to save and you just bet that 😂 God bless y'all in Jesus name Amen 🙏❤

[@andersnielsen6044]

Back when the high stakes mixed and limit games were still running.

[@anthonymeeker3172]

its funny to say "its 2014 players, were not that good" i literally remember watching 2014 podcasts with guests who played high stakes and them saying games are tougher, poker is dying etc. now its 2023 and we all wish we went back to 2014. when in 2014 we wish we went back to 2008. poker is fine and still great. just relax, play well, and enjoy the game. plenty of money to be made.

[@U_r_hopeless]

Can u do more of the nlh

[@MadMathmatics]

more, pls

[@MichaelBennett1]

I hope you have those hand histories stored in multiple locations and airgapped in at least one.

[@Dean-tp1nw]

Would love to know what a lot of these players are doing now

[@davidoconnor1773]

Definitely same, especially the Dang brothers!

[@Johnny-cz2wv]

​@@davidoconnor1773 they own a couple of restaurants in LA I believe

[@FlummoxedCartwright]

Great channel. NLHE at last!

[@PhilGalfond]

I figured it was time I gave in 🙂

[@FlummoxedCartwright]

@Phil Galfond I'd imagine there's not many PLO oriented channels so it's probably important in that space but from a purely business perspective NLHE is a must

[@evrenturan5632]

🐐

[@dlawogus844]

Phil, could you do some PLO nose bleeds also? I like this format of video.

[@BramCohen]

If you have AA and there's an A on the board you probably shouldn't put both of your opponents on Ax in a 3-way pot because, you know, there aren't five aces

[@DiamondForevah]

Hey Phil are you still close with dwan?

[@PhilGalfond]

I don’t see him as much as I used to, but we’re still friends.

[@matryan3532]

Get Mikey on one day with you, and do an old nosebleed review with him. I miss the good ole, “on the table” days

[@skillfuldabest]

lol i was the 109th like. That make me chuckle

[@infosrelevantes7146]

Thanks Phil. Was isildur an actual phenomenon? What's so special about him?

[@Hedonism96]

He would 8 table against the best players in the world for any amount. He was a straight up fucking menace lol

[@bobbymilkus]

more NLH videos plz Philly

[@mcfly7]

Not bad, not bad...

[@bobbymilkus]

NLH FOR THE WIN

[@andrejbogdanov2816]

It's pronounced "Yedlichka" btw

[@brettmasonmedia]

Not politically correct, but I’d like to hear who you were getting profit from in these lineups.

[@Todd_plays_poker]

So were u really a Clay Aiken fan...or just trolling?!

[@jonnyric7326]

👍🏽

[@cookitketo3592]

Dude goes from 20k to 165k - no updates? Yeeeesh

[@Stokkeland23]

Don't really understand how Ivey has gotten this image as being such an aggressive player. I think it's undeserved. That's not how he actually plays in my opinion. Yes, he does battle for pots he is in and he does bluff occasionally. I think of him more as being on the bit nitty side and being a player that makes very few big mistakes. He might be the best at not paying off people's value bets. However i don't think of him as like a super agressive player. I'm not sure why so many people do

[@Johnny-cz2wv]

Yea agreed, just what we would call a solid reg nowadays. Image is just marketing. Made his millions with ownership of FTP and the Laliberte millions. And I can't help but thinking there might have been some cheating going on back in the days

[@Stokkeland23]

@@Johnny-cz2wv I really doubt Phil Ivey has ever cheated in Poker. He is simply so smart that he doesn't have to. I can tell from just watching that he has a lightning quick brain. So yeah, i really doubt that :)

[@JordanWStroud]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qmOWmICZm81of80

[@Stokkeland23]

@@JordanWStroud Yeah, it's exactly because of a few moments like these people think of him as such an aggressive player when he's actually not. That's my opinion atleast :)

[@sandeepsmatharu]

Pumping out content...must be busto

[@chrisletang7000]

I hate all these range talk. I like the old school way of poker.

[@Realnamenogimmicksdude]

Reviewing those 10 year old hands is ridiculous

[@eskabor]

Thanks for the oldies Phil!

[@PhilGalfond]

You’re very welcome!

[@Blomdogg]

"Phil Ivey only runs it once, if you didn't know that." What a LEGEND , didnt know that but it sure tracks. Fun to watch, kind of annoying that it jumps back and forth and replays everything all the time tho tbh.... but thats being picky

[@brainwormradio4285]

I want to like your videos but I just don’t get you. You start your video saying I don’t know what happens in these hands and then before the AA hand you’re like “this is a funny one”