How Phil Ivey Acquires Chips
 

So we've been playing for about 45 minutes, and the 3 seat has not shown up.

Into the room walks Mr. Ivey, who gets into the seat (two to my left--great!) just as the second card lands in front of his chips which have been getting blinded off for almost an hour.

The 7 seat (UTG) has raised the pot to 150 (blinds 25/50). Before he can count his chips, Ivey looks at his cards and reraises to 500. He hasn't even checked to see how many chips were blinded off.

Flop comes down KT2, rainbow. UTG bets 600 into Ivey, who immediately raises to 1500. He has a train to catch or something. UTG calls.

Turn is a blank, and the guy bets 1500; Ivey raises to 4000. The guy raises Ivey allin, Ivey calls, and his set of kings beats the guy's AK. I guess the guy thought that Ivey's turn raise was either, uh, KQ or, uh, pocket queens or, like, a bluff or something. Hm.

Good God, where's the justice in THAT??! Arguably the best player in the world shows up late, and before the players at the table can stop falling all over themselves trying to fellate the guy, he has a set of kings and some clueless guy doubling him up.

Live major tournament poker is rigged.

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Nice post. Sorry to hear about your bustout hand dude.

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I recall Paul Phillips in his journal writing about how people are quite often eager to dump off to Ivey. Who knows why, I guess they are just starstruck. This seems to happen every tournament.

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LOL

Classic stuff. 10$ says UTG is going to be thinking of this hand for a good while, he must have been punch drunk walking out of there.

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I recall Paul Phillips in his journal writing about how people are quite often eager to dump off to Ivey. Who knows why, I guess they are just starstruck. This seems to happen every tournament.

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I think it has something to do with people thinking they know how Ivey plays cuz they've seen him bluff on TV.

"Since he doesn't always play the nuts, my TPTK must be good."

"I'm not going to get outplayed like Pete Giordano."

Take your pick.

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Nice post. Sorry to hear about your bustout hand dude.

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Thank you for your kind words.

Now that I am out of the tournament, let's see...what WILL I do with myself here in Aruba??? Uuummmmmmm...I suppose I'll just do some serious laying around with Belashis and Cubans.

That's beer and cigars, that is.

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it sucks we all have to live in what is Phil's world...

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I recall Paul Phillips in his journal writing about how people are quite often eager to dump off to Ivey. Who knows why, I guess they are just starstruck. This seems to happen every tournament.

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3 words.

White liberal guilt.

>_>

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3 words.

White liberal guilt.


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You might be excoriated for yet another racist post here at 2+2 and I am ashamed of blibbity and it is unacceptable that blah blah racist bigot etc etc ad infinitum.

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Now that I am out of the tournament, let's see...what WILL I do with myself here in Aruba??? Uuummmmmmm...I suppose I'll just do some serious laying around with Belashis and Cubans.

That's beer and cigars, that is.

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Sorry to hear about the bust...:(

Care to bring me back a few Cohibas, I'd pay for them and trouble of course [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]