official thread for all Ivey love

One of my friends played with Ivey at a WPT and told me his experience at Ivey's table.

In my experience river check raises in tournaments are real rare, more so live and especially all-in. Well apparently Ivey managed to put himself in spots 4 (four!) times in one level of a live tournament, where he check shipped the river for some massive bet in a huge ****ing pot at some table of name live pros.

Every time it was some real coordinated ass board with a dozen straights, paired cards, flushes whatever and the other player tanked for several minutes, grabbing their shoulders pulling at their hair and sweating and twitching and **** before folding, while Ivey just stared down like a gangster.

Eventually some of the players- I mean you know these live name pros, they come to respect themselves enough that they figure they can talk/kid with Phil at the table- well one of them gave him some crap jokingly about, who does he think he is?

and Ivey is just like:



my friends interpretation of Ivey's facial expression was:

Shut the **** Up.

I'm Phil Ivey.

fyi the 4th time he check shoved, he got called. You can guess what he had.

Ivey's the man but why don't you get off his "stone cold nuts"

I think the other most important thing about Ivey is the man literally has an aura surrounding him. Ask anyone.

It doesn't matter what he does. Kind of like how Patrik Antonius can 4-bet A2o and flop A22 vs. AK. He does ****, and it just works, except on a whole other level. People try to bluff him but never in good spots and they always end up in some ****ed position vs. him facing some ridiculous spot and raise.

I'm probably getting these stories confused cuz one was Mastr in LA and one was JC Alvarado, don't know where so forgive for mixing details. Anyone one of them was at some aggro talkative table. Ivey walks up and everyone just stops talking and looks scared. For the rest of the day, everyone is just staring at Ivey, watching him. He really has an aura, like everyone just watches everything he does and immediately looks away if they come close to making eye contact.

He just plays every hand and tramples people, in between hands he slouches in his chair and texts away, occasionally throwing chips into the pot while texting. Cuz who the **** is gonna break out the rule book on him anyway?

At some point this big black dudes walks up to him and hes carrying a buncha bags and he gives them to Ivey and leaves. Ivey pulls a belt out of one and just puts it on. Keep in mind literally every person at the table is staring at him all the time, and most of the people who aren't in a hand in a close proximity.

He takes his watch off, this $80k watch, opens the bag, and pulls out some lotion. And he puts lotion on his wrist where he was wearing the watch. Slowly applying it while everyone watches transfixed. Then he puts the watch back on, goes back into a bag, and grabs a thing of gummy bears and starts putting them in his mouth. Then he turns his head and looks my friend right in the eye, as though just noticing that everyone in the room is staring at him and never even considering that he was doing an abnormal thing. And he pulls a gummy bear out, holds it up to him, and goes "ya want one?"

You can't mancrush Ivey Broseph. He isn't like Patrik.

With Ivey it's more like listening to rap music. And if you hate on that, you're uncultured and probably a ****ing racist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--Qap3VT_ZY

Stone cold nuts=Ziigmund

Flop: ($28000.00) J 3 T (3 players)
Ziigmund bets $28000, David Benefield raises to $112000, trex313 folds, Ziigmund folds


Ziigmund: david
David Benefield: ?
Ziigmund: what you had
David Benefield: big hand
Ziigmund: i went to toilet
Ziigmund: missed to go all in

yea i gotta say he is the only player i have ever been a fanboy of. its that aura of dominance that u talked about that makes him different from anyone else.

lol, thx for confirming this is a level.

Jeff, just so you know, you are sort of the opposite in my experience playing with you.

Ziigmund looks like some sort of Gattaca metahuman, like if he really applied himself he could learn to play Master level chess in a week.

omg please tell me he took it!!

If I was a child with a terminal illness, hanging out and gambling with Ivey would prob be my Make-a-Wish.

+1...although he wants to look like Ivey, he is no Ivey...

Lol Ivey is a legend and my hero

the gummy bear story is epic....

Anyone hating on Jeff is an idiot. Ivey is the man. Nice thread Jeff.

ivey got that ashy skin

you mean my live game-care to elaborate? And how recent. I've done real good live so far but yeah I could be a lot more comfortable while being naturally focused at the table instead of torturing myself PA style.

That's the thing with someone like Ivey, he can just be natural even in his super focused mode where he's watching all the action and not moving much for hours and hours, just as he can screw around on his iphone between hands. He basically doesn't care what he does because no one is gonna get a tell on him ever anyway

He didn't. He was so surprised he made some incomprehensible grunting noise while shaking his head and then looked away and felt sad for a while, eventually excusing himself for a bathroom break.

As he told me this story, although his voice rarely cracked or wavered, I could see the pain in his eyes, the burning regret tearing at him deep inside. He was like a man reminiscing over ****ing up and barely missing that one amazing opportunity to land the awesome girl of his dreams, and then reliving it over and over again as his life passes by, in his thoughts and dreams, for countless lonely nights and years. I don't envy the man.

5 star thread imo. It doesn't even matter that it's a level, when you compare this thread to 95% of the trash that gets posted in this forum, it's pure gold.

Yeah you seemed forced and unnatural and extremely tense but trying to be extremely cool. It was one of the oddest table vibes I have come across.

I just wanted to say, "dude relax before you blow an artery or something."

Whatever, you're obviously entitled to your own vibe. It just struck me as really odd and then in combination with this thread figured I'd let you know.

+1

Need more ivey stories

Phil Ivey is a son of a bitch. He once mowed the lawn with his balls.

the one time i got to play with him was in a foxwoods WPT and this is exactly what happened, except for the gummy bears

ivey hangs out with phelps..