Full Tilt’s Phil Ivey Wins $363,650 At 2010 WPT Bellagio Cup VI Main Event

Regardless being one of the last players to enter the 2010 WPT Bellagio Cup VI Main Event, Phil Ivey of Full Tilt still handled to walk away with an impressive third place finish and $363,650 in prize-money from his initial $10,000 investment. Taking advantage of the delayed registration available in the competition, Ivey didn’t even enter the Fulltilt Poker Referral Code battle until the third day of action and had only a short-stack of 20BB standing between him and instantaneous elimination.

Nonetheless, by the end of the day Ivey had accrued 568k stack and by Day 4 he had collected 1.595 million in chips, and reserved himself a place at the six man final table Full Tilt Poker Net. Coming into Day 5, Ivey was lying in 5th spot and knew he had a lot of work to do if he was to defy for the impressive WPT title and he came close to doing just that after holding the chip lead on several occasions.