Ladies Betray Ivey Twice
Johnny Chan put on the $1,600 straddle and Bob Bright raised to $4,000. Jean-Robert Bellande called, and then Phil Ivey made it $16,000 to go from the button. Matthew Kirk then popped it to $50,000 from the small blind, action folded back to Ivey, and he dropped in a bunch of chips for a raise to roughly $180,000. Kirk had $231,000 total and quickly moved all in. Ivey snap-called.
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Ivey gave Kirk the choice as to how many times he wanted to run it, and twice was the answer. The ![]()
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board on the first run secured Kirk half the pot with a pair of aces, which turned out to be the same way he'd win the second half after the board ran out ![]()
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Kirk doubled in the $474,800 pot, while Ivey dropped down to only $661,000.