Pro Poker player Phil Ivey won his seventh career World Series of Poker bracelet this week.
Ivey won the $2,500 buy-in Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low-8 or Better event at the 2009 WSOP in Las Vegas. He won more than $220,000.
It is Ivey’s second WSOP bracelet this year. He also won nearly $100,000 in the $2,500 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball event earlier this month.
With the victory, Ivey joins Bill Baxter at sixth on the all-time WSOP wins list.
Ivey was seventh out of eight in chips at the start of the final table. He seized the chip lead when play became five-handed. When Dutch Boyd was eliminated in fourth place, Ivey had more than half of the total chips in play.
But Ivey went cold for awhile and was actually third in chips to Mortensen and Lee when play was three-handed. Ivey remained patient and regained the advantage and eventually polished off both of his opponents one by one.
Ivey is one of the favorites at betED.com to win the WSOP Main Event No Limit Texas Hold’em tournament, which kicks off July 3 with the final table in November.
Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Gus Hansen and Tom Dwan are all at +10000 in WSOP Betting Odds.
betED.com also has a number of WSOP prop bets, including picking the nationality and age group of the Main Event winner.
In the WSOP Main Event, Ivey has placed in the top 25 three times from 2002 to 2005 – 23rd in 2002, 10th in 2003, and 20th in 2005.
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