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Poker Pro Phil Ivey Misses World variety of Poker to Have their in UK Court day

Poker legend Phil Ivey would normally have been ensconced in Las Vegas this battling it out at the World Series of Poker Main Event (WSOP) week. Instead, Ivey is in London, fighting his legal battle to claim £7.7 million ($10 million) in punto banco winnings from London’s tony Crockfords Casino, which he contests has been illegally withheld. The case reached London’s Supreme Court later last week.
Instead of playing for the $8.15 million top prize in this year’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 ten dollars million that he says is due him from Crockford’s. (Image: WPT)
The player that is top-ranked absence from the WSOP, while notable, is no longer the huge news it once might have been. In reality, since he won his World that is last Series in 2014, he’s only registered for three WSOP activities.
But until now, he’s never missed the Main Event.
Ivey is fighting the Crockford’s battle for 5 years, along with a similar instance from Atlantic City’s Borgata.
Edge-Sorting 101
Ivey and their accomplice Kelly Sun ‘won’ the contested sum in 2012 making use of a practice known as edge-sorting. This is certainly a technique when a player that is skilled able to spot tiny discrepancies in the patterns on the backs of playing cards. Ivey and Sun requested a particular kind (more…)