The only Phil loses is if he gets another real bad beat, like getting rivered or getting the only two cards on the turn and river that would bust him. The guy never makes a bad play for all his chips.
well, not never lol. even the best reader of opponents and situations in the world will end up being knocked out with the worst hand in a good percentage of the events they enter. nobody's a psychic.
Psshh.. you mean everything I see on TV isn't all the hands he plays? We need an S2 poker tourney, I brought that up awhile ago, but if people are interested I'd be up for it.
I'm down. BTW...nothing made me happier about that list than NOT seeing Tiffany Michelle's name on it. My wife and I were watching some reruns during a commercial, and I couldn't believe what an immature, rude little girl she was. But it was my wife who surprised me with "she's really a bitch, isn't she? Do players let her get away with that?"
I'd always heard the Tiger Woods comparisons, not Steph Curry. Curry's a bit more baby-faced...he doesn't scare me sitting across with a stack of chips.
He looks like Tiger Woods a bit. I'd definitely be down for a Poker tournament. Lets make a separate thread for it.
he faded badly so far today - #15 with 19 left, and short-stacked to the point where skill doesn't make much difference. at this point he will have to get very lucky to make it to the final table.
it's over! as one of the short stacks ivey backed in to 8th without having to do that much. he got sort of lucky that 4 of the biggest stacks stupidly played huge pots against each other eliminating 2. normally that's not something you would dream would ever happen. still it's HUGE for poker to have its current biggest star make the ME final table out of a field of 6400+
not desparately short, but getting close. he will need to make some kind of move very early in the final table (blinds will jump to 150/300k soon after it starts). the big thing though is that the final table isn't played until Nov. 7-10. until then interest in poker in general will get a huge boost from over 3 months of ivey hype that will be coming from ESPN, Harrah's, Full Tilt etc. even if he ends up busting quickly, just having him make the final is great for the future of poker on TV and online. seating and chip stacks going in: Seat 1: Darvin Moon - 58,930,000 Seat 2: James Akenhead - 6,800,000 Seat 3: Phil Ivey - 9,765,000 Seat 4: Kevin Schaffel - 12,390,000 Seat 5: Steven Begleiter - 29,885,000 Seat 6: Eric Buchman - 34,800,000 Seat 7: Joe Cada - 13,215,000 Seat 8: Antoine Saout - 9,500,000 Seat 9: Jeff Shulman - 19,580,000 although nowhere near ivey's level obviously, shulman is actually a fairly well know player in the poker community. he made the ME final table in 2000 (finished 7th) and has been on TV a few times including the old "poker superstars" show fox sports used to run into the ground.
Has Moon been bullying? I don't know the guy. When you were saying Phil was short-stacked, I was envisioning a Kelly Kim situation from last year. But having 4 other stacks within 4M of him means he has a shot to get healthy quickly.
http://www.bluffeurope.com/poker-news/en/2009-WSOP-News/Darvin-Moon-heads-the-field_5201.aspx The bolded part is why Ive decided to never enter this tourney....that and it takes forever
Damn.. Phil's a stud, making it all the way to the final table. He'll be playing to win since he doesn't necessarily need the money when everybody else will be eyeing the cash ladder. He wants the bracelet. I hope Ivey gets some chips to battle Moon heads up.
ivey making the final table is huge for poker. shulman getting there is good as well. and ivey really isn't too short stacked. even when the blinds get to 150/300k, he's got more than 30 big blinds so he'll have some time before needing to get desperate and has a little room to work with.
he was almost there - under 6 mil with 11-12 or so left, came back to where he is mostly by not getting unlucky in one 60/40 (his AT vs KJ) pot against an all-in shorter stack.
given how crazy everyone else was and likely still will be playing, and that the big stacks will be gunning for him, 30 BB doesn't give him much room to maneuver.
