Well, it looks like Phil Ivey won't be repeating in 2008 at the LAPC as he was eliminated yesterday outside of the money.

Defending champion Phil Ivey made a run at the title once again, but lost a coinflip to end his tournament. Earlier in the day Ivey lost a huge pot with pocket kings when his opponent spiked an ace with A-K all in preflop. That hit left Ivey looking to double and he finally got his chips in the middle with A-8 against the small blind's pocket sixes. The board bricked out and the champ was sent home.

That's funny because I lost a huge pot at Cake Poker yesterday with KK against A-K. The only difference would be that my pot cost me about $80 and Ivey's cost him potentially millions.

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Last year, Phil Ivey won the L.A. Poker Classic. This year, he's in 22nd after day 1. Could a repeat be in store?

Reigning L.A. Poker Classic champion Phil Ivey sits in 22nd place entering Day 2 with 74,275 chips, over twice the average stack. Ivey’s lone WPT win was worth $1.5 million. He has a grand total of nine WPT in the money finishes to his name; all but one has been for a final table appearance. Ivey has nearly $3 million in earnings on WPT felts and holds five WSOP bracelets to boot. Interestingly, none of Ivey’s pieces of hardware have been won in Texas Hold’em tournaments (Pot Limit Omaha twice, Limit SHOE, Limit Seven Card Stud High-Low, and Limit Seven Card Stud).

KJ Nam currently leads the field with Phil Ivey's good friend Daniel Negreanu currently sitting in fifth. The LAPC is one of the most popular stops on the WPT so this should be a good one. We'll keep you updated.

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Phil Ivey is not yet confirmed to defend his WPT LA Poker Classic title, but one would have to imagine he would. The cast is star studded and it's normally one of the highest purses on the World Poker Tour circuit as celebrities, all the major pros and tons of amateurs come out to prove themselves.

Already scheduled to play in the event are Daniel Negreanu, Allen Cunningham, Erik Seidel, Todd Brunson, Antonio Esfandiari, Howard Lederer, Jennifer Harman, John Juanda, Chris Ferguson, Joe Hachem, Scotty Nguyen and many other high-caliber poker players.

Together the players have a combined three World Series of Poker Main Event victories, 37 World Series bracelets, seven World Poker Tour victories, one European World Series of Poker victory and hundreds of millions of dollars in winnings.

With or without him this is an event I'm looking forward to.

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