The Cristal Balla

Published by: Rod Stirzaker
Posted In: WSOP Blog, Unsubstantiated Rumors

Phil Ivey: The Cristal Balla

"Phil Ivey Hang around Vegas a while and you'll hear many tales of luxurious excess, though few can rival this Phil Ivey anecdote we heard moments ago.

Allegedly a group of businessmen were enjoying dinner at the Wynn when they looked over at one of the nearby tables to see none other than Phil Ivey.

Big fans of the poker superstar, they summoned the waiter and asked him to send Ivey a bottle of Cristal champagne, compliments of their table.

Happy with their deed, they went back to tucking into their top-class steaks.

Twenty minutes later, the waiter came back...armed with five bottles of Cristal!

"These are for you, courtesy of Mr. Ivey."

The businessmen were impressed. These bottles were selling at four or five hundred bucks a pop so $2.5k's worth of top class champagne was a very generous gesture.

They felt like they still wanted to send a message to Ivey that they were big fans of his though and took the waiter aside for a word.

"Would you have twenty bottles of Cristal delivered to Mr Ivey please?"

The waiter raised his eyebrows just a notch but took the order, made arrangements and twenty bottles of Cristal were sent over to the poker legend.


If you four-bet Ivey, don't be suprised if he 5-bet shoves!

The businessmen were satisfied that their point had been made and went back to talking about stocks, shares and of course cracking open a few of the five bottles of champagne stocking their table.

Some time later, they noticed a group of staff approaching their table.

They watched with ever increasing disbelief as bottle after bottle after bottle of Cristal was unloaded until their table and surrounding area were filled with no less than 200 bottles of the vintage champagne - retailing at approximately $100k!

When the delivery had been made the waiter passed the awestruck businessmen a note.

"This is from Mr Ivey sirs."

As the waiter walked away they all crowded round to read the note.

It simply said, "...and I won't stop."

That's why Phil Ivey is the Cristal Balla!"

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fin historie, men jeg kan ikke forestille mig at den er sand :-)

LOL hvis den er sand.

Var det ikke Ivey som en eller anden microstakes railbird engang sendte $5 og så fik 100 dollar retur? Og siden da har moret sig gevaldigt over hvor mange penge han har i totalt overskud fra alle de andre railbirds, der så også lige skulle prøve :P

Var det ikke Ivey som en eller anden microstakes railbird engang sendte $5 og så fik 100 dollar retur? Og siden da har moret sig gevaldigt over hvor mange penge han har i totalt overskud fra alle de andre railbirds, der så også lige skulle prøve :P

nej hvor fedt hvis det er rigtigt :-D

@hermod

Hvorfor er det så svært at forstille sig det?

Det er Ivey FFS!

Nice 5bet shove!

WP!

Ikke en chance i verden for den er sand.

I en brandert sendte jeg 10 c til Kongsgaard!.. Det fandt jeg ud af dagen efter da jeg stod op.... Men modtog aldrig noget retur :(

Henze05

Owned! :D

Ifølge Barry G. er den sgu god nok. Det bekræfter han på pokerroad.

Men han mente dog, at der "kun" var tale om 100 flasker...

Hvor nærigt kun at sende 100 flasker retur.

Usmageligt

Sakset fra 2+2 : ivey har en chat session (chat with the pros)
xxx:can u beat nl50 ?
Ivey:who is he ?
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
Mvh søren

"Hvor nærigt kun at sende 100 flasker retur."


At sende 200 flasker afsted ville ligne et bluff. WP Ivey imo

[ ] needs two threads.

p.s. se side 2

obv fake, men folk elsker at forgude ivey =)

Go lille godnat historie nu vil jeg til poker-drømmeland indtil jeg igen vågner op broke og ludoliderlig i morgen :)

Hvis Ivey havde haft stil havde han sendt Kruggelugger tilbage i stedet for det opreklamerede gejl

@PaulaL123, joonas, m.fl.

Barry Greenstein bekræfter historien på PokerRoads forum..