Phil Ivey eager for winning the WPT Bellagio Cup - already his 9th WPT final

• Author: News2
• Filed under: Daniel Negreanu, Gus Hansen, High Stakes News, Phil Ivey, Poker, Scotty "Baby" Nguyen
• Date: Jul 15,2010

Phil Ivey is doing pretty well at the moment: from this year’s WSOP he won his 8th bracelet and a nice sum of money from his side bets. Now the WSOP 2010 has hardly ended, but Ivey is already chasing the victory of the WPT Bellagio Cup.

This is already the ninth WPT final for Ivey. One of these he has also won - namely in 2008 he conquered WPT L.A. Poker Classic and earned huge 1,59 million dollars. In 2008 Ivey also profited big amounts of money with his side bets.

Besides Ivey Daniel Negreanu and Scotty Nguyen have made their way to the WPT final nine times. But so far the top man is Gus Hansen with his awesome ten WPT finals.  

So will Ivey succeed in winning tomorrow? If he won, his earnings from the live tournaments would exceed 14 million dollars.

Below the finalists and the prizes:

Seat 1: Phil Ivey – 1,595,000
Seat 2: Justin “Boosted J” Smith – 2,100,000
Seat 3: Rob Akery – 1,980,000
Seat 4: Eric Afriat – 620,000
Seat 5: Moritz Kranich – 2,715,000
Seat 6: John Caridad – 5,120,000
…
1. $875,150
2. $594,755
3. $363,650
4. $237,902
5. $169,930
6. $118,950

Source: WPT and TheHendonMob