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Phil Ivey opened to 22,000 from middle position and Brian Altman three-bet to 75,000 in the hijack. The action folded back to Ivey who made the call to see a flop of {q-Clubs}{j-Spades}{2-Spades}.

Ivey check-called a bet of 60,000 from Altman and the {8-Spades} landed on the turn. Both players checked to the {3-Diamonds} on the river and Ivey checked one more time. Altman stuck in a bet of 195,000 and Ivey check-raised all in for 629,000. Altman thought for over a minute and then made the call.

"Good call," Ivey said. Altman turned over {q-Spades}{j-Clubs} and Ivey was

Terrible play by Ivey holding middle pair and he shoves for his whole stack. An amateur makes that move and its the stupidest play on earth. But Ivey likes to bluff and put people to the test and it backfired. With him having that many chips no way he should of made that play.

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Posted by SlowFlowPro

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Posted on 7/8/18 at 8:43 pm to Double Oh

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Terrible play by Ivey holding middle pair and he shoves for his whole stack.

it was a blocker shove (esp with the 9s)

also QJo capped his range on the turn by checking back. he can't have a flush and he's one pair heavy

ivey blocks the straight and he knows villain can' have a straight (or flush....i guess?)

however, Ivey's story makes no sense checking the turn and river. he could lead turn and rep the straight/flush and shove river and put villain to test or lead river and represent a trap. over-shoving river with a CR is suicide. he's saying nut flush or nothing (and that would have shown up on the flop almost assuredly but no later than the turn). he's completely polarized but really is bluff heavy

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