Phil Ivey Claims Big Win

Poker Pro Phil Ivey has finally ended his streak of lossing in the World Poker Tour(WPT). He is one of the best, if not the best poker player in the world, and he has had trouble claiming a win at some of the best tournaments around, seemingly always to be playing well but getting unlucky at the Final table....which includes the final 9 players of the tournament.

This tournament is pretty far superior to any other tournaments that I have talked about. This one didn't have that many more entrants, seeing as it only had about 655. But the entry fee to get in was $10,000. So only the best of the best usually enter these kind of tournaments, especially since the WPT has an exclusive list of players who are even allowed to enter. Phil Ivey has set the record for the most Final Table appearances without a win til this point.

This time the luck for Phil Ivey had finally changed, at which was for sure his hardest final table, featuring 2 other top players in the world, one in Phil Helmuth who is also regarded as possibly the best in the world. Phil Helmuth though lost early, finishing in 6th place. That still left him with 1 of the top players left with only 4 total players remaining. But this time luck was on Ivey's side as he knocked out follow poker pro Nam Le while having only a 20% chance to win the hand. He spiked one of the cards he needed to win and from then on was in complete control of the tournament, and dominated his way to a win.

Many players talked about him in the post game interviews, all saying that he was on his game tonight and that they were scared to get involved in hands with him. The only player that didn't give him credit was Phil Helmuth, who is known as the "poker brat." He never gives anyone else any credit, as he thinks in his mind that nobody else is as good a player as he is, and that if there was no luck involved that he would win every single tournament. Others obviously disagree, but the bottom line was it was Phil Ivey's night to take down the prize of over 1 million dollars, and finally claim his first win.