Phil Ivey ended a ten 12 months drought and gained his eleventh World Collection of Poker bracelet final week, placing him alone in second place on the all-time listing solely behind Phil Hellmuth’s 17.
His win within the $10,000 Restrict 2-7 Triple Draw Championship leaves Erik Seidel, the late Doyle Brunson, and Johnny Chan tied in third place with 10 bracelets. The $347,440 payday throws Ivey up and over the $10 million WSOP money mark.
“I nonetheless get fired up for World Collection of Poker occasions,” Ivey mentioned after his win. “Now I’ve a household and different issues that I worth greater than poker. However I nonetheless adore it.”
All of Ivey’s WSOP bracelets had been gained in occasions that focussed on video games aside from maintain’em.
His WSOP bracelet assortment began merely sufficient in 2000 when he gained a $2,500 Pot-Restrict Omaha occasion for $195,000. In a type of passing of the baton, he beat 1972 $10,000 Essential Occasion champ and media darling Amarillo Slim Preston heads-up. Ivey was 23-years-old, however by that point already a seasoned high-stakes poker participant with the popularity of a cold-blooded poker killer.
Two years later in 2002, he quadrupled his bracelet assortment by profitable not one, not two, however three occasions: a $1,500 Restrict Seven Card Stud occasion for $132,000, a $2,500 Restrict Seven Card Stud Hello-Lo occasion for $118,440, and a $2,000 Restrict S.H.O.E. occasion for $107,540.
In 2005, he gained his fifth in a $5,000 Pot-Restrict Omaha occasion for $635,603. In 2009, he introduced his complete to seven with a win in a $2,500 No-Restrict 2-7 Lowball Draw occasion for $96,367 adopted by stacking everybody within the $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hello-Lo 8 or Higher for $220,538.
Bracelet quantity eight got here 14 years in the past in 2010 in a $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. occasion for an additional $329,820. He gained his subsequent one in Australia in a A$2,200 Combined-Recreation occasion for A$51,840. A 12 months later in 2014 he gained his tenth by taking down a $1,500 8-Recreation Combine occasion for $166,986.
“It’s good to win,” Ivey informed a World Poker Tour reporter. “Good to be constantly taking part in poker once more, which I haven’t performed in fairly a while. I performed a few Tritons, I performed a WPT in Korea, and now the World Collection [of Poker] so I really feel like I’m getting higher, getting again into the swing and hopefully, you already know, we’ll stick with it.”
Alongside all these wins are six close to misses the place he completed because the runner-up. A type of occurred in 2022 within the $100,000 Excessive Curler No-Restrict Maintain’em the place he gained his WSOP second-best money of $1,172,659.
His greatest WSOP money got here within the 2009 Essential Occasion the place he gained $1,404,014 for ending in seventh. He additionally went deep within the 2003 Essential Occasion, simply lacking the ultimate desk of 9 by one.
The 2024 $10,000 Restrict 2-7 Triple Draw Championship attracted 139 entries, and the ultimate desk ran so slowly that it required a fourth day to complete up. Ivey’s eleventh WSOP victory might have been one among his extra unbelievable ones as a result of he was down to 1 massive guess with solely Danny Wong and Jason Mercier sitting on the desk with him.
Mercier, who was going for his seventh bracelet, wound up in third. Wong remains to be in search of his first one.
“I’ll simply maintain taking part in,” mentioned Ivey. “I’ll maintain displaying up, taking part in, performing and hopefully profitable. I’m motivated. If I can play, I’ll.”
