Anyone watch the ESPN editors choice show or whatever it's called last night with a segment about Phil Ivey?Good show by the way.It showed Ivey playing the life of a living large high roller.You have to give the guy credit for becomming what he did coming from a humble background.He can hold his head up high that he truly is a self made person and that's rare these days.The problem is that it's going to his head where he is taking too many risks.You only recklessly gamble when you have little money and need to make more.You don't gamble like Ivey when you already have alot of money where you are set for 10 lifetimes.It's like he's up by 7 with the ball at his own 20 yard line with a full set of downs with the other team having no time outs with 40 seconds left to go in the super bowl and he's throwing 10 yard passes right down the middle of the field.Phil might act cool and thinks he's brilliant but he has no conception of the risk and reward factor.Somebody better talk some sense to him.
The final death blow downward spiral will be when he starts investing in some Obama-Magic Johnson inner city development movie theatre chain or something to that affect.
He has a friends list with people like Tiger Woods on it.In a few years Woods will probably give him a million bucks when Ivey is dead broke and tell him that he can live a good humble life on that one mill.Ivey will blow the wad in one night