AbsolutePoker and UltimatePoker Bad Beat Jackpot Surpasses $600 Grand
Full Tilt Poker pro Phil Ivey sure is holding his own at the 2009 World Series of Poker, marking his second bracelet win this year, and his seventh WSOP bracelet overall. This moves him up the ladder of most WSOP bracelets ever won to being tied for sixth place was Billy Baxter, and places him just one bracelet behind fifth place holder Erick Seidel. In 2002 Ivey set another record for being the most recent player to win 3 WSOP bracelets in a single year, that year being 2002.
His first 2009 WSOP bracelet was in Event #8, No Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball, in which Ivey entered the 7-player final table with the short stack, making an unbelievable comeback for the big win and the $96,361 top prize that came with it.
This second win was Event #25, $2,500 Omaha Hi-Low/7-Card Stud Hi-Low Split. Ivey outlasted a field of 147 players vying for a share of $338,100 prize pool. Making Ivey’s win even more incredible is the fact that he was simultaneously competing in another WSOP event while Event #25 was still going on. That other event, which apparently did not pose very much a distraction for the so-called Tiger Woods of poker, was Event #27, $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low (he finished 22nd of 198).
This places Phil Ivey alongside Brock Parker for being the only players (so far) to have earned 2 WSOP bracelets this year. His last WSOP bracelet came in 2005.
