He's rich, talented, competitive, fearless, famous, and seemingly a pretty cool guy.
If you have any combo of that stuff going for you who cares if you're not as good at poker as Ivey, you'll probably never be as good as Messi at soccer either, but life will be pretty sweet.
Girl in that pic just looks like durrrr now, even without photoshop....would suck having her as your girlfriend, could never get that image out m yhead!
a good quote/story by phil galfond on some interview was that acouple years ago he thought he could get a edge on ivey in no limit holdem because alot of his play was unbalanced in certain spots headsup, so galfond went threw aton of hands and came up with a really good strategy to exploit these errors but within a hour ivey had realized what phil was going after and already started changing all while still giving galfond trouble in other spots.
simply hes faster at understanding what your doing and why and better at reacting to it than anyone else.
a good quote/story by phil galfond on some interview was that acouple years ago he thought he could get a edge on ivey in no limit holdem because alot of his play was unbalanced in certain spots headsup, so galfond went threw aton of hands and came up with a really good strategy to exploit these errors but within a hour ivey had realized what phil was going after and already started changing all while still giving galfond trouble in other spots.
simply hes faster at understanding what your doing and why and better at reacting to it than anyone else.