It’s Now 8 for the Full Tilt Poker Professional: Phil Ivey
The shortage big names going deep had fans speculating what exactly was going on this year at the 2010 World Series of Poker. And so it’s always something to watch when Full Tilt’s Ivey made the final day of play. Even in a field of players like Jeffrey Lisandro, Chad Brown, John Juanda, Scott Seiver and David Singer, if Ivey is prowling, he can’t be reckoned out. After a calm start to the WSOP featuring 52nd and 53rd minimum cashes in $1,500 events, Ivey made a deep Download Full Tilt Poker run in Event 33, the $2,500 split pot-limit hold ‘em/pot-limit Omaha event, concluding 12th. He said on an interview that things were beginning to go in the right direction.
Less than three days later on, he sat behind all the Full Tilt Poker Review chips, having made a great return during heads-up play to defeat Bill Chen. Ivey cashed $329,840 for the victory and is now tied with Erik Seidel for fifth on the all-time bracelet list. In 2009, Ivey became the youngest player to collect seven bracelets, and he’s now the youngest to get eight.