Ivey is now sitting with over 160,000 chips.
2008 World Series of Poker
Event 22 - $3,000 H.O.R.S.E.
Day: 2
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Ivey is now sitting with over 160,000 chips.
JD Newitt has been eliminated after betting the whole way with (

) 


(
) but was called down by JJ Hazan who had rolled up eights with (
) 


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).
Markus Golser - 16,000
Mark Wilds - 15,000
Loi Tran - 14,000
Eric Froehlich - 12,000
Jan Sjavik - 9,000
These guys are going to have to make a move to double up shortly before the blinds and antes eat up their stack!
David Levi and Phil Ivey capped the action preflop and then got it all in on a flop of


.Levi held A-2-2-7 for a flopped set as Ivey showed A-A-J-5.
The turn brought the
and river
and Levi makes a full house to double through to about 34,000 chips.
Cong Do has been eliminated by JJ Hazan when Do made a 6-5 low but Hazan squeezed an ace out on the river to make a 6-4 low to eliminate Do just short of the money.
Eric Froehlich completed and then fired on each street with a board of



against Tom Schneider who called with 


until 6th street where he decided to give up the pot.Froehlich had dropped a few chips recently but rebounds with this pot to about 42,000 with Schneider now down to 45,000.
PokerNews Cup Austria Champion Erich Kollmann raised it up from early position and Phil Ivey made the call from the blinds. The flop came A-8-7 and Ivey checked to Kollmann who fired his last chips into the middle. Ivey made the call with

and was well ahead of Kollmann's 
. The turn and river arrived 7-9 and Kollmann is eliminated as Ivey jumps to 145,000 chips.It's ironic that Ivey is chip leader in this event as the same time that Daniel Negreanu has just won the bracelet in the $2,000 Limit Holdem event. Of course these two have a famous prop bet over the number of bracelets won in this series. Will this news be motivation for Ivey in today's event?