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Barely two weeks into the 2024 World Series of Poker, Phil Ivey has made history by winning his 11th WSOP bracelet.
His 11th World Series of Poker bracelet broke a tie with Erik Seidel, Johnny Chan, and Doyle Brunson and moves Phil Ivey to solo 2nd on the all-time list, only trailing the great Phil Hellmuth who has 17 WSOP bracelets.
It had been nearly 10 years since Phil Ivey last won a gold bracelet in the 2014 WSOP Event #50: $1,500 8-Game Mix which he won for $166K. Ivey, considered by his peers to be among the greatest poker players in the history of the game with an unflappable stare that shoots daggers into his opponents, is one of the most well-rounded players in the game.
While some of the poker legends stack up bracelets in Hold’em, and the Main Event champions of course get the most recognition, Phil Ivey excels across every game in poker and his 11th bracelet came in Event #29: $10,000 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Championship (6-Handed). This was actually Phil Ivey’s first $10K buy-in bracelet which seems like a statistical impossibility but here we are.
PokerGo shared the moment that Phil Ivey won his first gold bracelet since 2010, an unbelievable dry streak for one of the most talented poker players to ever do it:
DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK!@philivey wins the @WSOP $10,000 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Championship.
His first bracelet in 10 years and his 11th overall 🐐 pic.twitter.com/DO2ePlPUIL
— PokerGO (@PokerGO) June 14, 2024
This win also took Ivey over the $10 million mark in career WSOP earnings. After his historic win breaking the tie 4-way 10-bracelet tie with Chan, Seidel, and Brunson, Phil Ivey spoke with PokerGo about getting it done:
The fact that it took less than three weeks into the 2024 World Series of Poker for Phil Ivey to get it done is pretty exciting for the poker world. There is another month and a half of WSOP events to go. There could be some fireworks between now and then with one of the top players of all-time completely dialed in.