I would love to read your thoughts regarding that Monte Carlo hand, and the build up to it and did Phil Ivey ever ask you to play golf with him?
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I had played too weak against Phil ivey when heads up and i now squirm when i see some of the hands i folded to him post flop.
He is very aggressive in a clever way in that he is relentless rather than mindless and keeps you under constant pressure (he had a huge chip lead which made it even easier for him).
He told me afterwards that based on how he had seen me play he believed i wouldn't lie down and would make moves on him and he was sure that i had done that in two specific hands prior to the one we are talking about ( i hadn't made those moves in actual fact i had checked the turn in two cases with a hand knowing it would induce him to have a pop at it on the river which he did and i re raised him both times).
I had folded from the small blind to his relentless raises too often and simply decided that before i saw my cards i was going to win that hand one way or another to slow him down a little- it didn't quite work out as planned.
I didn't play him at golf he offered me too big a handicap and i didn't want to take advantage of him!
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