No Home Jerome Not Homeless... Yet
Phil Ivey was recently crippled in a hand, then somehow eliminated an even shorter stack the very next hand. Ivey couldn't beat aces and queens on a board of despite leading the flop and turn. When both players checked the river and Ivey saw his opponent's , he double-checked his own hand.
"Aces and queens?" he asked the dealer. The dealer said yes. Ivey nodded and mucked.
Ivey raised the next hand from middle position, then called a short stack's re-raise. The two players got it in on a flop of . Ivey's was almost a freeroll against his opponent . No low came in as the turn fell and river came . Ivey made treys full of jacks to scoop the pot and send his opponent home early.