You've saved your mad money all year for the big event. You look up just as the event is about to start and Phil Ivey sits down on your immediate left! What do you do?

1) Ask for a seat change?
2) Ask for his autograph?
3) Pretend you don't know who he is?
4) Tell him you're a pro - to gain some respect!
5) Over raise whenever you have an above average hand to try & shut him out?
6) Don't play a hand until either you, or he moves tables!
7) Make sure you wear sunglasses, a hoodie, a baseball hat, cover your face and don't say a word to anyone at any time during the tournament!
8) Ask him if he wants to play props?
9) Tell Phil he's almost as good as Hellmuth and try to put him on tilt!
10) Kiss your $10K goodbye!


This type of senario could occur, how can we prepare?

11). He's just another player at the table. Play how you would vs any other player of his style and quit thinking he's so great that you're just going to shut down and be scared.

wow ur scared of pros..lol bro i suggest u dont go to the series then might as well stay at home with that attitude.

exactly this.

12) Do NOT get in a last longet bet with him if you are scared.

Pretend you don't know so much about him, and use every single bit of information you got on him. If they get the impression that you don't know much about them, they will adjust their game according to this false information.

Remember that pros have leaks to, so don't fold your AK preflop because you don't want to play a hand against them.

13) Hope you get a feature table and an "agent" offers you $ to wear a patch.

I sat to the immediate left of a fairly well known (more well known in Europe) pro this past March at the Wynn Classic, and I just played my usual game. Truth is, I didn't know who he was til a few people came up and told him how much they admired him. It actually was fun to observe him at work. If you get Ivey on your left, play your game, and watch and try to learn something, and hope it's at someone else's expense.

14) Continually sing show tunes until he asks to be moved to another table because let's face it, Ivey has more pull than you.

to be a pro, you got to beat the pros.


IF you are playing the big game, eventually you will play with some pros. best not to psych yourself out before the cards are dealt.

You bust him. /thread

I assume this thread is a joke, right?

I have played only 6 WSOP bracelet events, but I've played with an unusually high percentage of known pros. (Seed, Matusow, Cloutier, Chau Giang, Boutin, JJ Lui, Matthew Glanz, Mizrachi). Anyway, I've found that many of them, in the small sample size of hands that you are together, and even the smaller sample size that you play together, it doesn't matter that much that they are pros.

Sure, if you played them in a deep-stack heads up match over 10,000 hands, you'd be in bad shape, but in a tourney, especially after the blinds get big and the stacks get shallow, a lot of your decisions are not that tough, and the really tough ones would be tough whether you were against a pro or against some other guy you didn't know.

Do what I did, shove 22 into his KK.

Kevmath, what would a standard offer be for someone sitting at a featured table during day 1 of the main?

ask for a bite of his apple

cringe at all the fanboys kissing their ass.

stay with your game... don't worry about it.

1. play your game.

but if you're game isn't any good, then

2.

stay with your game, don;t worry about it....

Call bodog ub cake stars doyles room party and tilt and start an auction

Remember You know his game. He does not know yours.
Dont try to be very friendly.
Do not show any of your cards if not called.(Even A,A)
If any pro at my table I will not utter a word if not needed.
He is human too.
He might have more experience then you. But that is given.So adjust accordingly.
And last but not the least. When they won their first tournament they were just like you or worse.(Phil Helmuth,Jamie Gold, Chris Moneymaker etc)

Try to play footsies with em and tilt him off his game. If Ivey is on either side of me, maybe I will rub his leg to really scare em. (btw, I am homophobic) I like the show tune singing too.

I qualified for a WPT and being an exclusive online player (was my first live tourn) it was pretty cool seeing all the pros you see on tv. I had Huck Seed to my immediate right for most of Day 1 and Dan Harrington joined towards the end of the day. I was like "OMG I'm playing poker with Action Dan". The next day I get down to the poker room and my GF looks at the seating chart and says "Patrick Antonious is sitting next to you" (to my left of course)....anyways I was so tired from sitting at the damn poker table for day 1 and my jet lag (tournament was in Cyprus lol) I didn't really care by Day 2. I think it's a novel effect that wears off and then it's like playing with any other dude at the table...

HE Will bluff and you will fold your best hand if you are scared. but if i was you i wont even bother. its your money, you are there to make to final table. if your playing main event. you are paying $10000.00 to play and if you dont make it, atleast you can tell your friends that phily ivey was to your left. i think its worth the 10k. good luck

wear your "I Busted a Pro on FT" t-shirt, that'll have him quaking.