Ivey Does the Birthday Triple

From the cutoff seat, Phil Ivey, who is celebrating his birthday today and trying to book his fourth LK Boutique $250,000 Challenge win, raised all in for 31,000. Connor Drinan called on the button, but then Fedor Holz reraised to 228,000 from the small blind, effectively committing himself to the pot against the others with chips still active. Ben Tollerene folded from the big blind, Drinan gave it up as well, and Holz revealed the .

Ivey had the , and he picked up a rather favorable flop when the rolled out to give him a flush draw. The landed on the turn, giving Ivey his flush, but he still needed to dodge the river, as Holz could hit another club and make a higher flush.