2008-02-11, at 18:18 - by Jakob Priess

Phil Ivey Blew His Bankroll
Seated at one of the smaller tables at Full Tilt and unable to afford sitting down at Full Tilt's biggest table, 'Phil Ivey's Thunderdome', American poker superstar Phil Ivey this weekend went and did something, most of us would not have expected. He went begging for a loan online.

Phil had lost it all. His entire bankroll at Full Tilt was gone, and after yet another losing session against "trex313", Phil Ivey said the word, none of us would have thought ever to hear from this guy:
"I'm broke right now."

The dialog in the chat between Phil Ivey and trex313 is now all over the Internet, and no wonder. Phil Ivey broke?
Well ... Ivey's most likely is pretty far from actually being broke, but he'd managed to offload his entire Full Tilt account, and that's a lot of money.

Here's the chat between Phil Ivey and trex313:

trex313: hey
trex313: i'm at your big boy table
trex313: if you wanted to play higher
Phil Ivey: im broke right now. this is the whole load
trex313: oh
Phil Ivey: cant get in touch with anyone
trex313: you want to crossbook double?
trex313: or you want to just play this
Phil Ivey: call me
trex313: i don't know your phone number
Phil Ivey: get it from someone
trex313: who knows your number?
Phil Ivey: u have erick lindgrens number
trex313: lemme see if mike's on
Phil Ivey: zigmund
Phil Ivey: patrick

trex313: matasow
trex313: matasow's not answering
trex313: howa bout i xferr you the money
trex313: on here
trex313: since you have more credit than me
trex313: since everyone knows you
Phil Ivey: ok i will send it back to u tommorow if i
lose and if i win i will send it to u tonight

trex313: okay
trex313: how much
Phil Ivey: ante up for now
Phil Ivey: 200000

trex313: are we crossboking?
Phil Ivey: u know how it works?
trex313: no tell me
trex313: or should we just wait til you get the 200
trex313: then just play it straight up
Phil Ivey: lets jus play 5 and 10 until u get my
number and then we can discuss how it works and
play really high
trex313: 5 and 10?
trex313: here?
Phil Ivey: yeah

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