It has been 10 years since Phil Ivey final received a bracelet, a drought that might come to an finish Wednesday.
The Poker Corridor of Famer has reached the ultimate desk in Occasion #29: $10,000 Restrict 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship (6-Handed), and he is hoping to seize his eleventh World Collection of Poker (WSOP) bracelet.
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Poker Legend to Finish Bracelet Drought?
The final time Ivey received a WSOP title was 2014 in a $1,500 8-Recreation Combine occasion, years earlier than the sequence moved from the Rio to Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. From 2000 to 2014, he secured 10 bracelets, essentially the most anybody has ever received over a 15-year interval. Phil Hellmuth, in fact, holds the file (17) for many WSOP bracelets lifetime.
Hellmuth’s file could by no means be touched as Ivey, Johnny Chan, Doyle Brunson, and Erik Seidel are all tied for a distant second place (10). But when the playing cards go Ivey’s manner on Wednesday, he might transfer out of a second place tie and sit alone in that place.
Ivey, whom many argue is the best poker participant of all-time, has had an up-and-down Day 3. He started the session fifth in chips out of 13 remaining gamers, however misplaced three-fourths of his stack early within the session earlier than grinding his manner again close to the highest of the leaderboard as the ultimate desk started.
It has been an in any other case gradual summer time for poker’s three hottest mainstream stars — Ivey, Hellmuth, and Daniel Negreanu. The trio had mixed for precisely zero closing desk appearances getting into Wednesday’s motion. Negreanu, like Ivey, has a prolonged bracelet drought — 11 years.
Ivey is the one participant ever with 10 bracelets in occasions that weren’t of the no-limit maintain’em selection. He has 85 cashes in bracelet occasions and $45 million in lifetime dwell match earnings, based on The Hendon Mob.
For the poker legend to complete it off on the closing desk, he’ll must beat a troublesome desk that features six-time bracelet winner Jason Mercier, and five-time winner Benny Glaser, the defending champion within the $10k 2-7 occasion.
On the time of publishing, seven gamers remained, all chasing the bracelet and the $347,440 first place prize. Ivey was sitting on round 1.7 million in chips, whereas Mercier was chip main at a bit extra. Each participant nonetheless within the subject is assured a minimum of $42,625. The match will play all the way down to a winner on Wednesday.
Phil Ivey’s WSOP Titles
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