Loading...Phil Ivey: The Cristal Balla
Published by: Rod Stirzaker
Posted In: WSOP Blog, Unsubstantiated Rumors
Hang around Vegas a while and you'll hear many tales of luxurious excess, though few can rival this Phil Ivey anecdote we heard moments ago.Allegedly a group of businessmen were enjoying dinner at the Wynn when they looked over at one of the nearby tables to see none other than Phil Ivey.
Big fans of the poker superstar, they summoned the waiter and asked him to send Ivey a bottle of Cristal champagne, compliments of their table.
Happy with their deed, they went back to tucking into their top-class steaks.
Twenty minutes later, the waiter came back...armed with five bottles of Cristal!
"These are for you, courtesy of Mr. Ivey."
The businessmen were impressed. These bottles were selling at four or five hundred bucks a pop so $2.5k's worth of top class champagne was a very generous gesture.
They felt like they still wanted to send a message to Ivey that they were big fans of his though and took the waiter aside for a word.
"Would you have twenty bottles of Cristal delivered to Mr Ivey please?"
The waiter raised his eyebrows just a notch but took the order, made arrangements and twenty bottles of Cristal were sent over to the poker legend.
If you four-bet Ivey, don't be suprised if he 5-bet shoves!
The businessmen were satisfied that their point had been made and went back to talking about stocks, shares and of course cracking open a few of the five bottles of champagne stocking their table.
Some time later, they noticed a group of staff approaching their table.
They watched with ever increasing disbelief as bottle after bottle after bottle of Cristal was unloaded until their table and surrounding area were filled with no less than 200 bottles of the vintage champagne - retailing at approximately $100k!
When the delivery had been made the waiter passed the awestruck businessmen a note.
"This is from Mr Ivey sirs."
As the waiter walked away they all crowded round to read the note.
It simply said, "...and I won't stop."
That's why Phil Ivey is the Cristal Balla!
Comments (14)
bongky
Jun 20, 2009
hahaha sick baller <3<3<3
ezshove
Jun 20, 2009
wtf, ivey is a baller <3
phil ivey
Jun 20, 2009
ya im phil ivey and i pwnersz
Chris
Jun 21, 2009
I don't believe that for a second. What restaurant carries 226 bottles of Cristal? I mean seriously. Even the amount of space those bottles would take up would be 1/2 the dining room.I guess they could have shipped in more but during the time of 1 dinner I don't think so. Would take too long. I know ivey is reckless with money but that seems a bit tough to believe. What would these guys do with 200 bottles anyways? You can't just walk out of the restaurant with that many. You'd need a truck
lol
Jun 21, 2009
Hahas @ Chris. This isn't your tiny restaurant. lets say it had a meager 100 tables. That means you need a little over 2 bottles a table. A place like that def. can handle. Read the bet Ivey has with Lederer.
JP
Jun 21, 2009
No restaurant has 200 bottles of one brand of wine... not even red wine. Saying that some bar would have 226 bottles of Cristal in stock is just ridiculous.
jim
Jun 21, 2009
this bar is in the wynn, i worked for a casino in the food and beverage department if the restaurant didnt have the 226 bottles themselves there MOST DEFINITELY that many in the liquor storage which the casino has.
Jonathan Vuong
Jun 21, 2009
I call BS on this.
ayeright
Jun 27, 2009
Somebody should send him a $100 note,I wonder if he would send back £200???If this story is true(which i seriously doubt)then Phil Ivey is an idiot.(the words,INSECURE,CHILDISH,EGOMANIACAL and Stupid spring to mind)I'm sure Phil Ivey is NOT stupid enough to not recognise a compliment from someone.Instead i have to think that the writer of this story has nothing interesting to say about real-life events so has resorted to either making this story up or(more likely)exagerating a real incident out of all proportion with the actual incident.I can only assume too,that the writer of this article thinks the readers are gullible sheep,ready to believe whatever is written.This is a common delusion amongst the self-titled "literate class".I think it's inculcated into them in University to replace the "common sense" that is driven out of them in the pedagogic institutions that pose as "learning centre's".
james
Jul 3, 2009
^ ^ ^ in before wtf
dan
Jul 26, 2009
ivey wipes his ass with 100k. would not doubt for a sec if that this is true
JooWish622
Jul 26, 2009
To the person who called this stupid, childish, and egotistical... you left out Ballah.
GoodFellaz
Jul 29, 2009
Chris this is vegas my friend.
The Wynn wine storage definitely has 1,000+ bottle of crystal in hand FOR SURE.
So does the MGM Grand, Bellagio, Trump and Hard Rock.
Plus if you log onto pokerroad (barry greenstein's) website.
That story was publish in the forum an barry replied himself to confirm it was a true story.
Pro Football picks
Aug 23, 2009
BS, but still a good funny story, I liked it. But Ivey is a baller and the first half of the story sounds like something that could happen easily.