Poker Player Wins $1.6 Million In Two Days
Published: Monday, November 28, 2005 Online-Casinos.com
POKER PLAYER WINS US $ 1.6 MILLION IN TWO DAYS
Phil Ivey truimphs again
Hardly has the previous day's excitement over his million dollar win in the Prima
Monte Carlo Millions died down at the weekend, when consummate poker champ
Phil Ivey was in the news with another big win - this one in the Full Tilt
Poker Invitational in Monte Carlo.
Televised live by Fox News, the seven champion players sat down to business at
midnight local time to make the US evening live TV shows, with comperes Howard
"The Professor" Lederer and Barry Tompkins.
Advanced technology was deployed in the tournament, with microchips implanted
on the cards so that a computer could read each hand. In another innovation, percentages
were displayed along with the cards in play. Allied to the highly professional
camera work that viewers have now come to expect from these big money tournaments,
it gave the show real edge and plenty of class.
The champs around the table were David "Devilfish" Ulliot, Mike "The
Mouth" Matusow, Phil Helmuth, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Gus "The
Great Dane" Hansen, John Juanda and Phil Ivey.
The first casualty came after two hours of intense play when Matusow went out
after a run of bad cards. Phil Helmuth was next followed by Gus Hansen at fifth.
The final four continued, battling it out to get in the money of the first three
placings. Ferguson was pipped at the bubble and went out empty handed in the number
four spot. Ulliot was next with a consolation third place prize of $120 000 and
Juanda and Ivey's tussle for the top prize was not much longer, Ivey truimphing
and taking the top $600 000 money, with Juanda second on $ 280 000.
Ivey, in two tense days had added $1.6 million to his bank balance. What a Thanksgiving
Weekend!
