God damn it. I was for sure winning the ME would make him badass.

I think everyone is trying not to jinx him.

gg chewy, gl ivey?!

thx.

he is playing so passive though that its hard to cheer for him.

YES YES YES YES YES IVEY FINAL 9 YES

Ivey in the November 9... pretty awesome

you know a guy is good when even though he's at the top and won't be sticking any money at all into the poker community directly, everyone wants him to crush.

now that i think about it, it is kinda strange.

i generally root for the underdog: if two teams are playing that i have no emotional or financial interest in, i cheer for the underdog; and on the flip side i hate the yankees and the lakers and the dukes of the world. phil ivey is not, by any definition, an underdog, yet i'd be thrilled if he wins the main event--why?

cos he's phil ****ing ivey. It's hard to quantify, but he's just the man.

because he ****ing should

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its because when you think you are good and start plateauing because you think 'well it's hard to really get much better at poker than i am, anything else is diminishing returns' and then someone is just astronomically better and it defies reason, it makes you wonder that maybe you can achieve a higher level of play than you thought was possible.

seeing someone win event after event after event while crushing unlimited stakes at any game that comes up and making it all look easy defies reason; ivey shouldn't be able to 'run this good'. he shouldn't be able to be, well, i don't know a good number for tournaments, but lets say, he shouldn't be able to be twice as good as another top tourney player. but if he keeps 'running this good' it means he's probably not just running good, and that is kind of exciting because it means that people are still able to get WAY better at poker.

Ya this for sure. I played 2/5 at the Wynn this summer and some dude honestly tried to tell me (and he was serious) that he's watched Phil Ivey "run good" over the course of the last 6-7 years. "It's easy to win millions when you run like Ivey." Ya OK. We think there's a limit to how good you can be and Ivey surpasses it time and time again.

He literally appeals to every type of poker player/fan out there. The donks see his "poker face" and watch him on TV and think he's god and even the great great players think he's godly. Most final tables in WPT history, 7 bracelets before the age of 35 (none in hold'em) and here he is at the final table of the main event, his 4th top 30 finish in the last 8 years. He's the closest thing to Jordan, to Gretzky, to Tiger. And in a game with as much luck and variance as poker has, that's damn impressive.

I mean MagicNinja said it way better than me but yeah...we think there's a limit, we come to accept that, and if someone repeatedly defies our pre-existing notions of what's possible, and humbly at that, it's pretty ridiculous ///// godly

Kinda like watching the 2-7NL FT where he started shortstacked, I fully expect Ivey to come through once again in the ME.

and hes just a straight baller

ivey runs like god in the main event. he is one of those guys who just walks on water.

stfu

well, that is enough to burn me out for a little while. turns out going for a long jog doesn't fix **** and you don't get good karma from giving bustos money for refreshing hsnl constantly.

booked to maui this morning, leaving in 10 minutes, not bringing laptop, gl hsnl.

that is ****ing ******ed gross

Super sick graph.

That graph is my new wallpaper. that way when i start to tilt cuz i think im running bad i can just hit the "show desktop" button to see what running bad really looks like. Well, atleast you have this to look forward to:

FYI

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/28...issions-534844

t or f:

how much ivey decides to market himself has a mountainous impact on viewership of the final table.

ivey doesn't have to decide to market himself. he's going to be marketed. any marginal amount of marketing he decides to do for himself would have very limited scope and effect.

the interesting thing here, i think, is that they (espn, for instance) can't really plaster his face on everything for the next several months without ruining the suspense of the casual viewer.