Re: The Phil Ivey Challenge??
 

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How much money do you think this guy really has? I don't think he can just go blowing million dollar bets and have it mean nothing. 500k would definately be enough to motivate him.

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I guess you didn't watch that Full Tilt cash game. He said he wouldn't take 10 million to get a desk job for a year. He's loaded. I'd guess well over 20 million.

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How much money do you think this guy really has? I don't think he can just go blowing million dollar bets and have it mean nothing. 500k would definately be enough to motivate him.

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I guess you didn't watch that Full Tilt cash game. He said he wouldn't take 10 million to get a desk job for a year. He's loaded. I'd guess well over 20 million.

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Where can you watch this?

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He said he wouldn't take 10 million to get a desk job for a year.

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I hope Phil didn't say this because it's a f'ing ignorant & ridiculous comment if he did....$10 million for a one-year desk job is +EV, even if you have 20 mill under the mattress it still makes sense to spend 200+ some odd days out of the year grinding a 9-5 for this kind of money...any smart gambler/poker player would be foolish to turn this down

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Not if he values his leisure time immensely. The extra 10M does not allow him to buy much "extra" that he can't already afford.

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He said he wouldn't take 10 million to get a desk job for a year.

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I hope Phil didn't say this because it's a f'ing ignorant & ridiculous comment if he did....$10 million for a one-year desk job is +EV, even if you have 20 mill under the mattress it still makes sense to spend 200+ some odd days out of the year grinding a 9-5 for this kind of money...any smart gambler/poker player would be foolish to turn this down

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He said he likes his life too much. After the first few million how much would you care about +EV if it made you unhappy to get it? The answer is that you wouldn't.

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The bet clearly isn't based on Ivey's skill level. Cause as I mentioned, he is a poker GOD.
I think he could play 400NL on a 5k roll and average 10bb/100. At 400 hands an hour, moving up one level every time his roll doubled, he could be at 1 million in 40 hours of play time. This is kinda feasible if his win rate remains constant.

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Id like to counter this via the use of logic.

If he could do that, then he would make 1 million a week.

Phil Ivey doesnt make 52 million a a year, so he can't do that.

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The bet clearly isn't based on Ivey's skill level. Cause as I mentioned, he is a poker GOD.
I think he could play 400NL on a 5k roll and average 10bb/100. At 400 hands an hour, moving up one level every time his roll doubled, he could be at 1 million in 40 hours of play time. This is kinda feasible if his win rate remains constant.

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Id like to counter this via the use of logic.

If he could do that, then he would make 1 million a week.

Phil Ivey doesnt make 52 million a a year, so he can't do that.

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You logic is flawed. No way Phil wants to play 40 hours of 400NL every week, even if he makes 52 million a year from that. He's just happy making 20 mil a year from ftp and owning nosebleed cash games a few hours a week.

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There's a lot of dumb in this thread.

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Phil Ivey said on ESPN the pokeredge that he could one up Chris Ferguson and turn 5,000 bankroll into a million and not go broke. Chris Ferguson said he might take up the bet.

Personally I think 5,000 is a lot to start with. But I don't think he could stand playing such low limits.

He first mentioned having ten tries with a bankroll of 1,000 but thats basically BS.

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in how long?

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Utility function ftw.