by James
25. May 2010 10:05
Phil Ivey, Arguably the world’s most successful professional poker player has had a room at the Aria Resort & Casino named him and unveiled on Saturday. The resort celebrated this event with a $1 Million Dollar Freeroll and invited celebrities, poker pros and guests to compete for this staggering prize pool and celebrate in the opening of the poker room.
Ivey’s reputation as one of the best poker players in the world did not super cede his reputation as a wonderful host. From all accounts that we have heard of the party was that we heard was that it was one of the best parties that Vegas has ever seen. The event started off with Ivey, in a fashionable questionable jacket, cutting the ribbon to the venue, and as a host does, mingle.
The party itself seemed like quite the place to be, and had some of the biggest names in poker in attendance. Doyle Brunson, Tim Phan, David Benyamine, Eli Elezra, Jennifer Harman, were all seen mingling about and all playing high stakes poker like it was the lowest PokerTime stakes tables.
The top prize of the night went to Larry Litton who also got the opportunity to compete in a heads up against Ivey for a cool $250,000. Ultimately there’s a reason Ivey is considered one of the best players in the multiverse and Litton went home early.
I’m fairly sure the rest of the party didn’t.