Phil Ivey World Series of Poker Main Event
highscheme
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Phil Ivey the Mike Jordan of Tiger Woods of Poker will be playing in the final 9 of the Main Event in November.Shit is epic. 6500 entrants, first place $8.5 Million. He has several million in side bets with other high stakes players if he happens to win.Here is an extremely long thread full of stories about the man...http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip/phil-ivey-stone-cold-nuts-439786/
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"Ivey's the man but why don't you get off his 'stone cold nuts'"
Hahah, that's hilarious.
B/W
Sounds like they used the Surprise drums up in there, kind of.
well, he is going into the final 9 as 7th place in chips???so he has a lot of ground to make up. He is just an insanely good player though.
There are 57 events during the world series of poker and he won 2 of them prior to this
I was under the impression that with so many people in the tourney, the odds were that the many many coinflips and all-or-nothing showdowns between players who have never played eachother turned it into something you'd really have no chance of winning, no matter who you are. Since it's hit 4000 people or whatever, how many of the pre-superboom players have made it? Seems like it's always a table of unknowns at the end...or?
maybe Phil Ivey is from the super boom I dunno too much about it...just seems that I've known his name for a long time, and that he'd be able to get through all the 8000 dreamers to the final table must make him the greatest ever...
Ivey was around before the boom, probably the last of the pre-internet, pre-Moneymaker pros to come up.
imagine what a day in negreanu and ivey's shoes must be like
Good call! definitely the Surprize break.
If he can catch one good hand early and double-up, he'll be right in the mix.
im glad i really never got into online poker because i would either be broke as F*ck or i would have gotten fired by now