Results by Phil Ivey
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Sun Nov 08 2009 07:26 GMT
Hand #164 - Joe Cada
Phil Ivey has the button. Joe Cada makes it 1.5 million under the gun, and nobody gives action.
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Sun Nov 08 2009 07:24 GMT
Hand #162 - Steve Begleiter
Jeff Shulman has the button. Under the gun, Steve Begleiter opens the pot to 1.5 million. Phil Ivey flat-calls for a significant portion of his remaining chips, and it's heads up the rest of the way.
Ivey checked the flop of
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Sun Nov 08 2009 07:18 GMT
Hand #159 - Phil Ivey
Eric Buchman has the button. There are two folds before Phil Ivey raises to 1.6 million from middle position. Action passes to small blind Joe Cada, the only player at this final table who has shown much interest in taking Ivey on this afternoon. Cada asks for a count before flipping his cards into the muck. Big blind Antoine Saout follows suit.
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Sun Nov 08 2009 07:12 GMT
Hand #156 - Ivey Moves In
Darvin Moon has the button. Under the gun, Phil Ivey moves all in for a little more than 6,000,000 chips, and the blinds and antes he wins represent a significant increase for the shortest stack left.
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Sun Nov 08 2009 07:10 GMT
Hand #155 - Jeff Shulman
Jeff Shulman has the button. He opens the pot for 1.5 million. Darvin Moon surrenders his small blind without much thought; Phil Ivey takes longer to consider his options in the big blind. More than a minute, in fact, before he calls.
The flop comes
. Both players waste no time in checking. The turn looks like a blank, 
. Ivey again checks, keeping his remaining 6.4 million chips behind the betting line while waiting for Shulman to act. Shulman settles on a bet of 2.0 million.
It would seem that Ivey can't call here; he has to either raise or fold. He seems genuinely stuck, tanking for more than a minute and a half before choosing the latter of his two options. He folds, preserving ten big blinds in his stack and conceding the pot to Shulman. -
Sun Nov 08 2009 06:41 GMT
Hand #146 - Phil Ivey
Joe Cada has the button. Phi Ivey bumps it up to 1.25 million in early position. Both Begleiter and Cada seem to toy with a call or maybe more, but everyone yields to Ivey in the end.
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Sun Nov 08 2009 06:36 GMT
Hand #143 - Phil Ivey
Phil Ivey has the button. He gets the opportunity to open the pot and does so, for 1.25 million. The blinds don't bite; Ivey takes it down.
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Sun Nov 08 2009 06:33 GMT
Hand #141 - Darvin Moon
Jeff Shulman has the button. Action folds all the way around to Darvin Moon in the small blind. His raise to 1.75 million is called by big blind Phil Ivey. Moon has to act first on a flop of
. He quickly puts 2.5 million chips into the pot; Ivey folds just as fast.
Ivey is now the short stack. -
Sun Nov 08 2009 06:31 GMT
Ivey as the Short Stack Has the Penn & Teller Theater on Edge
Since Cada's big double up with pocket fours versus Ivey's ace-eight off suit, it seems as if the room's energy has deflated. With Ivey now sitting as the shortest stack in the room with just under 11 million everybody seems to be on edge. A confrontation for Ivey could mean his elimination.
It's as if we're in the eye of a hurricane; it's so quiet, but there is no avoiding the destruction which could occur at any moment. -
Sun Nov 08 2009 06:14 GMT
Hand #131 - Joe Cada Out-Flips Phil Ivey
Eric Buchman has the button. Phil Ivey is the first mover, opening to 1.25 million from middle position. When action moves to small blind Joe Cada, he re-raises all in for a total of roughly 5.8 million. As Cada's stack is counted down Ivey contemplates his decision, someone out in the theater drops a bottle of beer, shattering it on the floor to some stifled laughter.
As my blogging partner FerricRamsium mentioned in a hand a few moments ago, one of the tried and true maxims of tournament reporting is that pre-flop tankers almost always fold. Ivey is deep in the tank, and we can see his tongue working against the inside of his cheek as he thinks about what to do. It seems none of the rules apply to Ivey, because he makes the call!
Ivey:
Cada:
Cada looks like he's going to cry when he sees Ivey's hand, though if Ivey weren't going to fold a race is about the best that Cada could hope for. There's no help for Ivey on a flop of
. Cada's supporters and pleading for the dealer to brick out the board. They get one brick on the 
turn and a second with the 
river!
There are shrieks and cheers from one section of the theater. They're all wearing yellow shirts in support of Joe Cada. The *entire rest of the theater* is sitting mute, no doubt unhappy to see Ivey take a hit. He's down to 10.3 million; Cada's up to about 12.5 million.
