http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/02/nevada.poker.lawsuit/index.html
Me and my crack team of legal analysts (me, the dog and a still shot of Reese Witherspoon from "Legally Blonde") have mixed sentiments about this. For starters there's no way to tell who is telling the truth. It's a fact, our society has become burdened by extensive lechorousness...er....dog reminds me the word I mean is "litigiousness." The best that I can figure is that ccording to Phil he has taken the high road and gone to bat for the Internet poker community's lack of action on returning funds locked down by the US Justice Department. Full Tilt claims that Phil really only cares about his own money that's locked up.
Like many others I have respect for Phil Ivey. Enormously talented and a perfect gentleman. Big shock here - I have somewhere between 0% and 0.00000000000001% respect for Full Tilt. The Big Three poker sites, Full Tilt included, have been a constant source of mathematical unbelievability amusement.
I would never dream of sitting at the same table as Phil and dreaming that without massive amounts of good luck I would survive, but for over a decade now I've recognized that the play has been more often than not driven by factors outside reasonable math. If one purposefully creates an open wound and jumps into a pirahna infested South American waterway it would be natural to expect that your death is imminent. So when the writing was on the wall back in 2006, why didn't he bail out between then and now?
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