Ivey Forces Queens To Fold
Catching the action on the board of and the pot sitting at around 18,000, both Phil Ivey and his opponent checked the action.
The river landed the and Ivey slid in a stack of 5,000- and 1,000-denomination chips into the pot amounting to a bet of roughly 38,000 to effectively put his opponent all in for his last 12,000.
Ivey's eyes darted back-and-forth at his lone opponent on his direct left, the ESPN TV camera crew, the pot and at anything that seemed to move within his peripheral vision.
"Wow!" gasped Ivey's opponent as the camera switched solely on him and another few minutes went by.
"I have a big hand!" he added before flashing a card at Ivey.
Ivey remained in his emotionless seated position as his eyes darted faster than the excitement meter on Allen Kessler soars after registering a min-cash!
Eventually Ivey's opponent tossed in his face up while uttering, "Go ahead man!"
Ivey pushed his cards towards the muck and collected the pot to send him to 62,000 in chips.