Ivey Wins First WPT
Feb 29th, 2008 by Mark Scalia
The 8th time proved to be the charm for Phil Ivey as he captured his first WPT title at his 8th WPT final table.
The day didn’t start well for Ivey. Entering the final table as the chip leader with a little over 4 million in chips, Ivey lost almost half of his chips on the very first hand of the evening. Action was folded to Ivey, who was the small blind, and he raised 240,000 and Woody Moore pushed all in for 1.5 million. Ivey thought for approximately five minutes before calling with A-9. Unfortunately for Ivey, Moore had A-Q and doubled up.
But last night proved to be Ivey’s night as he captured his first World Poker Tour title and the $1,596,100 first prize. The rest of the Final Table results are listed below:
1st Phil Ivey $1,59,100
2nd Quinn Do $909,400
3rd Charles Moore $625,630
4th Nam Le $411,770
5th Scott Montgomery $296,860
6th Phil Hellmuth $229,820
In Pro Circuit, TV, Tournaments, WPT Feb 29th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Print | 
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