How sick is Phil Ivey? Ivey registered for the World Poker Tour’s Bellagio Cup VI two days after the event kicked-off –The WPT allowed registration through the first level of Day 3, which many people took advantage of—with a 20BB stack, and is now sitting in 2nd place with 15 players remaining!

Ivey’s stack of 1.8 million chips trails only chip-leader Eric Panayiotou’s 2.4 million chips.

Although this is total conjecture on my part, my guess is that Ivey has some serious side-bet action on the outcome of the tournament –I can just picture him laying odds on his chances of winning the tournament starting with a 20BB stack—and if he does win the payoff would likely be 5-10 times the $875k in first-place prize-money! Why else would he enter a tournament with a 20BB stack?

In Ivey’s way are Maria Ho, Justin “Boosted J” Smith, and Jeffrey Lisandro, but all three are extremely short-stacked heading into today’s action.

Stay tuned to Poker News Boy for updates on Ivey’s progress in the WPT Bellagio Cup VI, as well as any information on prop bets that comes to light regarding Ivey’s performance in the tournament.

Related posts:

1. Phil Ivey returns to poker at APT Macau It’s no surprise that Phil Ivey’s first poker tournament since Black Friday would take place at the APT Macau, since the big games that have...
2. Failla amongst chip-leaders at WPT Borgata Emanuel “Will the Thrill” Failla has been on quite the heater in recent weeks, first capturing the WPT Legends of Poker Main Event title, followed...
3. Day 2 of the EPL: Seidel amongst chip-leaders AGAIN Day 2 of the second Epic Poker League Main Event is now in the books with 23 players remaining in the hunt for the title,...

Tags: Phil Ivey, Phil Ivey at WPT Bellagio Cup VI, World Poker Tour’s Bellagio Cup VI, WPT, WPT Bellagio Cup VI

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 15th, 2010 at 11:14 am and is filed under WPT News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.