On Friday, Phil Ivey (pictured) became the fourth player to reach ten World Series of Poker bracelets after taking down a $1,500 Eight-Game event. As a result, those who bet against Ivey and Daniel Negreanu capturing a WSOP bracelet this year were sorely disappointed, not to mention a little poorer.

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The reserved Ivey told WSOP officials following his win, “It’s number ten. That’s a good number. Me and Daniel [Negreanu] made these bets. That’s what I’m talking about. I said either me or him were going to win [a gold bracelet] and we took even money. Me and him were both very deep in this tournament. This was a great opportunity. The tournaments are dying down. There’s not too many left. I knew I had to get this one or else it was going to be pretty tough from here.”

Ivey entered the final day of the Eight-Game event, when 14 players remained, in third place. Making life even more uncomfortable for bettors was the presence of Negreanu, who started Friday in ninth place in the same tournament and ended up finishing in ninth as well.

Ivey, Johnny Chan, and Doyle Brunson, all of whom have ten bracelets, are three away from tying Phil Hellmuth for the all-time record of 13. On reaching that mark, Ivey said, “Do I think I can catch Phil Hellmuth? Sure, I think I can catch him. It’s possible. We just have to see how it goes. I just have to keep playing at this pace. I got to keep playing a lot of them because [Hellmuth] plays a lot of them, so it’s a lot of work.”

Ivey and Bruce Yamron were in a dead heat in chips entering heads-up play, but Ivey quickly took a 3:1 lead and extended it to better than 6:1 before Yamron doubled in a hand of Stud. The tournament ended shortly after heads-up play began during Omaha Eight or Better with Ivey making aces and kings against Yamron’s aces and sevens.

Ivey’s last bracelet came in 2013 in a $2,200 Mixed Event at WSOP Asia-Pacific. He has $6.5 million in career WSOP earnings and was the youngest person to reach nine gold bracelets.

We should also mention that PocketFivers Aaron ndgrinder59Steury and Stephen stevie444 Chidwick (pictured) made the final table of this event, finishing in fourth and fifth, respectively. Steury, who won a HORSE bracelet in 2011, cashed for the seventh time at this year’s WSOP. Chidwick, who is from the UK, is up to $1.2 million in WSOP cashes for his career.

Here’s how the final table cashed out:

1. Phil Ivey – $167,332
2. Bruce Yamron – $103,375
3. Dan Heimiller – $66,246
4. Aaron ndgrinder59Steury – $44,286
5. Stephen stevie444Chidwick – $30,488
6. Yuebin Guo – $21,692
7. Christoph Haller – $15,720

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