
Poker legend Phil Ivey would ordinarily have been ensconced in Las Vegas this week, fighting it out during the World Series of Poker Main Event (WSOP). Instead, Ivey is in London, fighting his battle that is legal to £7.7 million ($10 million) in punto banco winnings from London’s tony Crockfords Casino, which he contests has been illegally withheld. The situation reached London’s Supreme Court week that is late last.
Instead of playing for the $8.15 million top prize in this season’s World Series of Poker Main Event, poker pro Phil Ivey (seen here after winning the 2008 L.A. Poker Classic) is in London during the Supreme Court, fighting for $10 million from Crockford’s that he says is due him. (Image: WPT)
The player that is top-ranked absence from the WSOP, while notable, is no longer the massive news it as soon as could have been. In fact, since he won his last World Series bracelet in 2014, he’s only registered for three WSOP activities.
But until now, he’s never missed the Main Event.
Ivey was fighting the Crockford’s battle for five years, along with a case that is similar Atlantic City’s Borgata.
Edge-Sorting 101
Ivey and their accomplice Kelly Sun ‘won’ the contested sum in 2012 using a practice known as edge-sorting. This might be a technique in which a skilled player is in a position to spot tiny discrepancies in the patterns on the backs of playing cards. Ivey and Sun reque Continuar leyendo «Poker Pro Phil Ivey Misses World group of Poker to own their Day in British Court»