Ivey Micro-Stack Becomes Mini-Stack
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Phil Ivey has been terribly quiet since he turned up an hour late after the dinner break, doing little more than maintaining his 10,000 short stack. Just now though we found him in the big blind position, betting out 4,000 on a 
flop. Dan Shak tanked up for a long time, stacking chips, then restacking them, separating out a call, then a raise, then putting them all back in his general stack and dwelling up some more. Then he folded.
Michel Abecassis folded too with rather less hassle, and Ivey upped his stack to the princely sum of 13,500. He has some serious fans here, by the way - some young gentlemen at the rail did their best to persuade us to get Phil Ivey to sign the washing instructions on their hoodies for some reason. We naturally refused. They were very upset, and will presumably be very envious of Gus Hansen who just sat down in an empty seat next to Ivey, despite not actually playing this tournament.