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Bookies are off the hook: Ivey bounced in 7th place
Posted by: James Carter. - Mon, 2009-11-09 07:50
Online bookmakers world over can sigh relieved: the player they were getting so much square action on at the
2009 WSOP, Phil Ivey, considered the best by most of the poker specialists has been eliminated from the Main Event’s final table in 7th place.
Darwin Moon, the chip leader going into the final table action was the one responsible for his demise, after Ivey failed to get anything going at the final table. Handicapped by his relatively short stack, he eventually pinned the last of his hopes on an A,K, and got called by Darwin Moon who had A,Q. Moon then proceeded to spike a Queen on the flop to take the lead, and he never relinquished that lead. Deserted by the turn and the river, Ivey hit the rail in 7th place, ending possibly one of the most hyped WSOP Main Event presences ever.
Well known poker author Nolan Dalla caught up with Ivey just after his elimination. When asked about how difficult the final table was for him, Ivey said it was indeed one of the more difficult ones of his career as he had been handicapped by his short-stack from the get go. He then echoed what every level-headed bettor not caught up in the hype knew all too well: he was a statistical underdog going into the November Nine showdown, and basically he needed something good, something lucky to happen to get him up among the contenders again. That something never came about though, and after losing a few bluffs and a few coin-flips, he was left without options. The final hand was obviously a bit unlucky, but that’s just the luck element at work, and that is always a factor. All in all, Ivey said he wasn’t unhappy with any of the decisions he’d made at the final table, and the reason things went the way they did was beyond his control.
He acknowledged that winning had indeed been his goal, and that he felt disappointed with his 7th place finish, but he said overall he wasn’t worried and that he felt he would be back at the highest level of WSOP action within a year or two.
