We're back with another edition of Ivey Stories. This time, we've got Daniel Negreanu telling a funny story about a golf game involving Phil Ivey that had plenty of money on the line. At the end of the match, Ivey was faced with a big putt and wasn't too happy with how his caddie lined it up.
Mike Leah opened with a raise and Andrew Wayman flatted from the next seat over. Tim Reilly three-bet the action to 20,000 and it folded back to Leah who moved forward all of his blue chips for a raise totaling 76,000. Leah was left with right around 20,000 behind. Wayman folded and Reilly flat called and began to table his hand, thinking that Leah was all in.
The flop came down and Leah put in his final 20,000. The hands were both tabled to reveal that Leah found himself in a rather unfortunate set-over-set situation.
Leah:
Reilly:
The board finished with the and the , ensuring Leah's elimination from the tournament. Reilly scooped the pot and brought his stack to about 540,000.
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier moved all in for his last 13,600 from under the gun and Tim Reilly called from the hijack. The rest of the table folded and the hands were tabled.
Grospellier:
Reilly:
The board came down , pairing Grospellier's nine and allowing him to double. He now has about 35,000 to his name. Despite this loss, Reilly is still one of the top stacks in the room with about 515,000 to his name.
Johann Ibanez Diaz opened for 6,500 and it was folded to Dani Stern who made it 16,000 to go after asking Diaz how many of the blue T5,000 chips he had. Diaz made the call and the two would see a flop of .
Diaz would check-call a bet of 13,000 from Stern and the turn was the . Diaz again check-called a Stern bet, this time for 30,000.
The river was the and Diaz checked a third time. Stern didn't fire another bullet as he tapped the table. Diaz turned over and would take down the pot when Stern mucked his hand.
A short-stacked Zhou Zhou moved all in for his last 67,000 and was called by Ratharam Sivagnanam who was holding a much bigger stack and . Zhou was in good shape with his and would be in even better shape when he hit a set of queens on the turn. Sivagnanam would hit a meaningless set of jacks on the river. Zhou moved to 150,000 in chips with that key double up.