Dwan and Ivey’s Vegetarian Prop Bet

Poker has had it’s fair share of crazy prop’ bets down the years. Everything, from racing a racehorse to growing facial hear, has been on the agenda for some of the more fun-loving poker players. The latest prop’ bet is certainly a new one on us here at Poker News Headlines.

The bet in question came up on the latest edition of High Stakes Poker. Tom Dwan suggested to meat loving Phil Ivey that if he didn’t eat any meat (including fish) for the next year then he would pay him $1 million.

High Stakes Poker Season 6 Underway

Fans of High Stakes Poker are set for a treat every Sunday from now on as season 6 of the popular show has started on the Game Show Network.

The first episode started on Sunday, Feb. 14 at 8 p.m. EST and will now run each subsequent Sunday. The build up to the new season saw GSN airing an eight hour poker marathon. I Love Poker began at Noon and featured highlights of High Stakes Poker games from the past.

Gabe Kaplan has returned for season 6 with a new co-host in the form of Kara Scott.

Full Tilt’s Million Dollar Cash Game sees Record Pot

You might expect the occassional large pot in a cash game title “Million Dollar” but rarely do you see a pot exceed the one million mark in Full Tilt’s flagship televised cash game.

$1,108,500 found it’s way into the middle of the table when two old rivals, Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan, locked horns. Fellow Full Tilt Poker pro’ Patrik Antonius was also involved in the action but the savvy Finn had step aside from this particular hand before both players held monster hands.

When the turn fell both players held a straight but it was Phil Ivey who was in big trouble…

Phil Ivey Tops All Time Money List

It’s been an interesting start to 2010 for Phil Ivey. The “Tiger Woods of poker” had his own marital problems in late 2009 which resulted in a divorce from his wife but, if the the single life is anything to judge by, keep away ladies! because Ivey appears to be in better form than ever before.

Yesterday, Ivey claimed 2nd place in the $100,000 buy-in challenge event at the Aussie Millions, a result which was good enough to move him into top spot on the all time money list. Ivey sat just a few hundred thousand dollars behind Daniel Negreanu before the weekend started. His 2nd place in Melbourne earned him $544,219 – enough to move him ahead.

Phil Ivey Divorces Wife

The poker world was in shock yesterday as news was leaked that Phil Ivey had divorced his wife of seven years, Luciaetta.

Ivey, dubbed “the Tiger Woods of Poker” by many, has enjoyed a successful 2009 both in online poker at Full Tilt and in live events. Two WSOP bracelets and a WSOP main event final table added more notable results to Ivey’s ever increasing list of honours in the last year. Financially, the tournament successes were eclipsed by his superb run online as several million dollars were banked from his high stakes play.

The Tiger Woods of Poker – Phil Ivey in Profile

Tiger Woods may be suffering from various scandals of late but when it comes to sporting comparisons there are still few other options when trying to match Phil Ivey.

Ivey is widely recognised as one of the finest poker players of his generation. Whether it be in cash games, tournaments, strange variations of poker, online or in a card room it’s tough to find a player that has excelled in so many fields like Ivey has.

This is our mini-tribute to Phil Ivey including some facts and figures about the great man but no stories of infidelity or Tiger Woods style car crashes.

Darvin Moon and Joe Cada to go Heads Up for WSOP 2009

After 15 hours of play, the November Nine WSOP Main Event final, was whittled down to the last two players. Long time chip leader Darvin Moon stayed firm throughout and he will face Joe Cada in the heads up stages of, what seems to be, the never ending 2009 WSOP.

Cada holds the chip lead over Moon as play resumes at 10pm PST today and few are betting against him going on to win the title. Cada is sitting pretty with over twice the amounts of chips that Moon holds. 135,950,000 vs 58,850,000 reads the chip counts.

Mike Sexton joins The Poker Hall Of Fame

One of the good guys of poker is enjoying a great week this week. Mike Sexton is currently sitting pretty on the final table of the World Poker Open V and earlier today it was announced he was to be inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame.

Sexton became a household name due to his poker commentary on shows such as The World Poker Tour, but the 62 year old pro’ has a string of poker tournament successes to his name too. He has over $2.7 million in tournament winnings, the biggest of which was a $1 million win against Daniel Negreanu at the WSOP Tournament of Champions event in 2006.

Win a Piece of Phil Ivey’s WSOP November Nine Cash

Phil Ivey is gearing up for the WSOP 2009 Main Event final and to celebrate his achievement the Full Tilt Poker professional is giving away of a piece of his action to players on FTP.

Ivey has reportedly banked a large amount of cash from prop bets on the 2009 WSOP and is now using his final table appearance in November to promote Full Tilt and make some lucky online players very rich in the process.

There are three different prizes up for grabs for Poker News Headlines readers. All PNH readers get a $600 deposit bonus AND 27% rakeback so now really is the time to start playing on Full Tilt Poker. Read on for prize information.