Phil Ivey's table recently broke and the eight-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner was moved to table #435, smack dab to the left of eleven-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth. We're just as excited as you to see the sparks fly as the two most notable "Phils" in poker collide.
Table #435 in fact is the most stacked table in the room in terms of WSOP bracelets. This one table alone holds the recipients of 22 bracelets. Here is a look back at the bracelet winners from this table as they each look to add one more to their collection
Picking up the action on fourth street, Christopher George and Norman Chad checked and Brian Twete bet. George called and Chad called.
On fifth street, George added a pair of aces and bet out. Both of his opponents called. On sixth street, George bet and Chad raised. Twete folded and George called. On seventh street, George checked to Chad and Chd checked behind.
George tabled the from the hole for quad aces. Chad showed the and had a seven-six low. The two chopped up the pot.
On fourth street, Nicholas Verkaik checked and Adam Friedman bet. Verkaik made the call. The same action happened on fifth street before both players checked on sixth street. On seventh, they both checked again and it was showdown time.
Verkaik announced that he had kings and showed the . Friedman didn't look happy and mucked his hand.
Drew Scott bet on fourth street and was called by Todd Brunson and Phil Hellmuth. Hellmuth opted to seize control of the hand and bet out on both fifth and sixth. Much to Hellmuth's chagrin, both Scott and Brunson decided to stick around.
All three players checked seventh and Hellmuth showed . Scott mucked his hand and Hellmuth stood up with excitement, hoping that he would be able to scoop this rather large pot. Brunson, however, had other ideas in mind, as he tabled for trip treys. Brunson's winning of the pot sent Hellmuth walking away from the table, muttering obscenities under his breath.
We found George Hardie push out a bet on fifth street that was quickly called by Allen Bari. When sixth street was dealt out, Hardie bet out again, but this time Bari did not act so quick. Bari shuffled his hole cards in his hands before sighing and sending them sailing to the muck.
Allen Bari was the bring in and Sven Arntzen completed. Eli Elezra put in a raise and it folded back to Arntzen who called. Arntzen check-called bets from Elezra on fourth and fifth and both players checked sixth and seventh.
Arntzen showed but was behind Elezra who scooped the pot by showing .