Should Have Bought it Cheap; Deeb's Price Doubles
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"I got more than I started with!" Freddy Deeb half-yelled, drawing our attention to the table-to-table conversation between he and Phil Ivey. "I got forty thousand!"
"How much for half your action, Freddy?" Ivey bantered. "Throw a number out there."
"How much are you willing to pay?" Deeb asked.
"What are you guaranteed right now? Twenty thousand pounds? All right, I guess twenty thousand pounds."
Deeb sort of chuckled and returned to his own action, but the conversation was still lingering. "I'll give you ￡22,000. And I'm lucky too," Ivey tried again.
Barry Greenstein spoke up from the end of Ivey's table, trying to negotiate the sale. "You have to factor in Phil's luck," he said. "Phil once staked three people in a tournament, and they came first, second, and third."
Everyone chuckled, and the conversation turned to how much Ivey would need to sell some of his action. "I'll sell half of myself. Make me an offer."
Now it was Barny Boatman doing the talking. "You should trade half of a percent of you for half of him," Boatman suggested. Everyone chuckled. The debate went back and forth for another couple minutes with no resolution, and it came to a halt when Deeb moved all in on the next hand.
It was Roland de Wolfe who opened the pot to 12,000, and Deeb shipped it in there for 43,000 total. De Wolfe did the math and decided to call with 
, and Deeb was in good shape to double with 
.
The board came 
, holding Deeb's pair and increasing the price of his shares significantly. He's up close to 100,000 now and back in the game.