Run This Town
We just caught the tail end of the action, but the ESPN cameras were rolling for the duration of this hand, so we'll likely find out the rest of the story later.
When we walked up to the table, there was a board of , and it was heads up between two big stacks. Phil Ivey had checked, and Nicolas Levi made a bet of 7,600, apparently the leading bettor the whole way. Ivey, though, is awfully skilled in the ways of pokering. He stuck in a check-raise to 22,000 straight, and Levi paid it off.
Ivey tabled (just the nuts) and raked in a pot of well over 50,000 chips. That vaults him all the way up to about 145,000 now, slightly overtaking Levi in the process.