Phil Ivey Makes Yet Another Big Bet
21 Apr
Even though he’s already got one of the most impressive lists of wins, titles and bracelets in poker, Phil Ivey continued to push the boundaries by making yet another outlandish bet.
In one of the biggest prop bets ever in poker, Phil Ivey and Howard Lederer have made a $5,000,000 bet on whether Ivey will be able to win a pair of bracelets over the next two or three WSOP’s. Opinions vary on the time span of this bet with PokerListings.com saying he has two years in which to accomplish this feat, while David Sklansky says he has three years.
With seven WSOP bracelets already won by Ivey, two of which were won in the past year at the 2009 event, it seems likely that 33 year old might be the only poker player who can achieve this.
Apparently Ivey plans on playing somewhere in the range of 80 bracelet WSOP events during the period of the prop bet, whether it’s two or three years.
Time will tell as to whether this is a bold or stupid or boldly stupid move, but we can all be guaranteed to be kept entertained, amused and above all impressed by Ivey’s playing style.
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