Phil to Phil
Friday, June 5, 2009 - Gene Bromberg
It’s all about the bracelets, baby, and yesterday Phil Ivey won his sixth. He also won $96,361, which is nice. Really, that’s a nice little bit ‘o cash. But the buzz around the Amazon Room was that Ivey, just as he did last year, had some big bracelet prop bets outstanding. And as he battled John Monnette for three-and-a-half hours the talk was that Ivey stood to make a stupefying amount of money should he win. And when I say stupefying, I’m talking about eight figures here. Not counting any on the right side of the decimal point. These are just rumors, mind you, but that fact that no one batted an eye at the figures thrown around or thought them unrealisitc makes them seem plausible. And if those sums are accurate, then, wow. GG, Mr. Ivey.
Satchel Paige famously cautioned, “Don’t look back–something might be gaining on you” but that doesn’t seem to be Phil Hellmuth’s attitude toward Ivey’s sixth bracelet. He offered his congratulations via Twitter and then today got back to work on Day 2 of the $2,000 No-Limit Hold-Em event. There’s still a long of tournaments where Phil could take down his 12th bracelet and double-up Ivey, though as Phil took his seat today he was faced with an imposing stack just to his left.
Phil currently has around 55,000, the chip leader has around 175K…hopefully Phil will have a long day at the office.
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