Phil Ivey Confirmed to Play in WPT London

Hot off of a final table appearance at the WPT Bellagio it's been announced that Phil Ivey will be participating in the WPT London.

Clash of the Phil's

Phil Hellmuth who isn't exactly known for being modest or keeping his opinions to himself was recently asked if he thought Phil Ivey could ever best his 11 WSOP bracelets. Hellmuth's response was

“Ivey won't pass me in five years. That's impossible... I shouldn't say it’s impossible, I don't think it'll happen.”

Well, it's not hard to imagine that Phil Ivey has a different view on the topic. When told about Hellmuth's remarks Ivey responded

“Impossible? I don’t really like the word impossible. I think it’s very possible. It’s very likely.”

With eight WSOP bracelets already under his belt in only 8 years Ivey probably has the best chance of anyone of overtaking Hellmuth who won his first WSOP over 20 years ago (1989). Ivey is on fire in both cash games and tournaments. His only problem in tournaments is that he plays for such dizzying high-stakes at cash games that winning a tournament is -EV for him. He's kept himself engaged in the tournament world only by making similarly dizzying-stakes prop bets during tournaments. It isn't unusual for him to have prop bets going for 4 or 5 times the amount of the first place prize.

On the other hand, Hellmuth is considered one of the biggest fish when he sits down at cash games. While Ivey is dominant in almost every form of poker known to man, Hellmuth is a hold'em specialist which heavily weighs on his prospects of capturing more bracelets.

If I were a betting man (and I am) I would put my money on Ivey over Hellmuth any day of the week and twice on Sunday!

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Phil Ivey Finishes 3rd in the WPT Bellagio

Phil Ivey had an uphill climb from the get go at the final table of the World Poker Tour Bellagio event but he made the best of it finishing in 3rd after losing to Justin Smith. This was a record setting 9th final table appearance at a WPT event for Phil and he took down $350K for his troubles. Of course, for Phil $350,000 is loose change. He's been known to win more than that in one hand at cash games. Regardless, Phil once again proves why he's such a tough competitor by setting a WPT record.

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Phil Ivey Makes Record Setting 9th WPT Championship Final Table

The Amazing Phil Ivey will be sitting at the WPT Bellagio Cup final table. Ivey is fifth in chips out of the six remaining players with 1.5 million in chips. The chip leader, John Caridad has over 5 million. It will be an uphill battle for Ivey but he's shown he's a threat as long as he has a single chip left so nobody should be sitting back and thinking they can push Ivey around the table.

The other four players at the final table are Justin Smith, Rob Akery, Eric Afrait, and Moritz Kranich.

BTW, this is the same Justin Smith who, along with Mike Matusow, made a $2 million prop bet with Ted Forrest that Forrest couldn't drop 50 pounds in a month. Curious to find out who won the prop bet?

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Phil Ivey Survives Day 4 of the WPT Bellagio Cup

Phil Ivey may have *only* earned one new bracelet (making for a total of 8) at the 2010 WSOP but he hasn't slowed down his dominance at the poker tables. Phil is still in the running at the $15,000 buy-in WPT Bellagio Cup IV. He's sitting pretty in eighth out of a remaining 32 players. If he makes it to the final table this will be his 10th WPT championship final table.

Phil Ivey and Barry Greenstein Trade Jabs

Funny little video on PokerRoad of Barry Greenstein and Phil Ivey trading jokes about each other.

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