The Ivey Room, a new poker room for high stakes poker games, opened up at Aria Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas last weekend. As you probably already have figure out the poker room has borrowed the name of the world's most successful poker player, Phil Ivey. The Ivey Room celebrated its opening by having a $1,000,000 VIP tournament where the player who knocked out Phil Ivey got $100,000. The winner[...] Read more » High Stakes: The Ivey Room
Joined: May '10
Location: Philippines
Age: 43 (M)
Posts: 104
I guess this would be inevitable. I mean Phil Ivey, c'mon, what more could you ask for. They couldn't have given the room a better name in my opinion. I hope this room gets to be as prestigious as the person it got its name from.
Joined: Nov '08
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 47 (M)
Posts: 2194
IVEY room... OK so wheres my room...? The BCH suite..... now thats progress. Havent FTP got an ivey room? (there high stakes bit?) Still good luck to him... PI that is. I'm sure the Ivey Room will get its share of action from the high rollers that roll through Vegas. But i do think the Ivey thing is running a little shallow now. I mean he hasnt done much over the last few seasons has he....! Dont get me twisted he's a hell of a player but just (as i see it ) not firing on all cylinders this year.
Joined: Jan '10
Location: Moldova, Republic of
Age: 50 (M)
Posts: 239
Why you think that they pay only 1 instant money, I think is more probably that they will give him some % money from profit all the time. But who knows, may be Im wrong.
Joined: May '09
Location: India
Age: 37 (M)
Posts: 4873
wow , great to have a poker room in a casino named after you, but you gotta be pretty successful for that. he must have made nice cash for letting them use his name.
