Phil makes a pretty nice call here. He made a continuation bet against John D’Agostino on the flop, turned a pair of nines with an ace kicker, didn’t improve on the river (when a possible straight draw got there), and still called John’s $11,000 bet, which he obviously read as a steal attempt.
Full Tilt pro Phil Ivey showing his skills once again!
I mean this really isn’t big news — but the fact that Phil actually rebought for 100k more after being felted once by poker pro Ilari Sahamies in a $500/$1000 PLO game on the Full Tilt Poker site (the official sponsor of Mr. Ivey).
People LOSE. Good players LOSE. It’s POKER.
Oh well — for those who ARE interested — read up here on highstakesreport.com.

Hehehe another really good Full Tilt Poker ad featuring our main man Phil Ivey. Got to love the cool.
More full tilt ads to come, I promise!
This is by far the best Full Tilt poker commercial I’ve seen. Phil Ivey and a bunch of Phil Ivey wannabes at a table, Phil being cool as ever and the midget opponent being the true Phil clone.
For some reason, this version never made it on tv — but I love it!
Other players in the end include Erick Lindgren, Howard Lederer, Mike Matusow, John Juanda, Chris Ferguson, …