The great thing about Phil Ivey is that he doesn't discriminate. He'll play any game if the stakes are right and he'll take anyones money. Even if it's David Rabin (one of the New York Press's Most Loathsome New Yorkers, apparently), owner of the New York nightlife hotspot Lotus and president of the New York Nightlife Association. From an interview at Curbed:

It's this great mix of everything from food guys to hip hop guys to Wall Street guys to sports guys. Annie Duke played twice. Phil Ivey played twice and cleaned us all out. It's just a 5/10 game, so theoretically shouldn't be that expensive, but people tell me it plays like a 10/25 game. You need to bring $5k to the game. So a lot of us want to have a recession game now, and play a little more hospitably for the next six months. We'll see.

I'd have to wager that this played out exactly the scene in Rounders where Mike McD turns the car around and heads to the Ivy League kids house.

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