Phil Ivey vs. Andy Beal

[OrangeCat]

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Andy put up $20 million vs The Corporation's combined $10 million. That's how it started several years ago, and that's how it continues (in between Andy's multiple retirements from poker). They play hold'em and I think I read a few matches about 7-stud. Blinds are usually 30k-60k, sometimes 50k-100k.

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IIRC, that is right. But while he may have started with 20m Beal has much deeper pockets than that. And even though there were several pros pooling their money it was still not an easy thing to come up several 100k for many of them.

Part of Beals strategy was to raise the stakes so high that it took the pros out of their comfort zone. This time maybe he will not be able to do that. I’d be very interested to know how much money is backing Ivey, not just what he sat down to the table with.