Is Moon just a Luckbox, and will Phil Ivey EVER be able to forgive Ace Queen??
The longest final table in WSOP history has come down to the final two players, and Phil Ivey is not one of them. I wont go through the hand histories of each player’s elimination hand, but Phil Ivey’s is definitely a special case.
He was eliminated from play in 7th place, and this time he was holding a dominating AK over Darvin Moon’s AQ. Of course, Moon FLOPPED his queen, and no king (or any improving cards for either player) came ending Ivey’s hopes of being the first professional since Mortensen to win a World Series of Poker.
Here is a video of Phil Ivey being eliminated in 2003 while holding Ace Queen. Better Luck next year Phil! (and, for the record, finding the 6 WPT episodes on youtube that have Ivey getting eliminated holding Ace Queen..more difficult than you’d think..)
Here is the link, as for some reason embedded video isn’t working for me right now!
The two remaining players are Darvin Moon and Joseph Cada. Darvin Moon had a commanding chip lead when the final table play resumed, however he is facing a tough battle with only 59,000,000 of the remaining chips. Joseph Cada is well positioned to become the youngest World Series of Poker champion in history with 135,950,000 of the chips, easily out-chipping Moon 2-1 +.
My question is this: Do you think Darvin Moon is a fantastic player who was never noticed due to not playing on line? Or, was he an amature riding a HUGE lucky streak to the top 2 spots in Poker for 2009?
Final Table play resumes tonight at 10pm
Players Eliminated
Akenhead 9th 1,263,602
Schaffel 8th 1,300,228
Ivey 7th 1,404,014
Begleiter 6th 1,587,160
Shulman 5th 1,953,452
Buchman 4th 2,500,000
Saout 3rd 3,500,000
