Can anybody find that story somebody posted a while back where they were shooting dice with ivey in the golden nugget years ago, and ivey let him play his chips while he went off to get something to eat?
Back in the day when 50/100$ was the high stakes on FTP, Ivey used to fart around from time to time in the micros (.25-50c). The following hand took place on one of these tables.
Me: 44
Him: ?
From the button i call a standard raise and Ivey comes along also from the BB.
Flop comes KcQc9s, and initial raiser checks from early position and so do i.
Ivey bets out Pot which was prolly like 6$ at this point, making it a total of 12$
EP dude folds and i pop Ivey for my remaining 18$. Ivey tanks then folds.
I show my 44 and he types "Nice Play"
I can die happy.
It's kinda sad when that's the highlight of ur poker career, but maybe that's a small reason why i can totally identify with the OP here.
2006 wsop i was eating at shintaro with a bunch of poker players and ivey rolls in and sits just across from us. at first we were all subtle like "holy **** it's phil ivey let's not make a scene." as the meal went on we basically just were loudly telling ivey stories left and right and he was no more than 10 feet or so away from us. he had to hear us talking about him but for whatever reason no one cared.
So in this hand against Roland DeWolfe on Pad, Ivey flopped a 4-flush draw and DeWolf flopped a set, and Ivey totally did a Jedi Mind Trick:
Dewolf: I'm not really sure what I'm going to do here.
Ivey: What do you mean you don't know? You got a set.
Dewolf: I've got a set.
Ivey: You're all-in.
Dewolf: I'm all-in.
Ivey: Right...See you later.
Hey...good story!! Except it never happened. They have never played PAD together.