Trickett's Optimism In Vain

Sam Trickett has been on a hot year final tabling all over the world and recently winning the World Open for $200,000. This sort of form brings you a lot of confidence and rightly so. The problem is that he has an opponent in Phil Ivey who's been on a hot year, year after year for the last ten years and with that brings unbreakable confidence.

The old guard has just taken care of the new guard making Trickett our first bust-out of the day.

We witnessed two hands where Trickett lost the last of his chips:

Hand 1
The flop was out as {8-Clubs} {3-Spades} with 4,800 in the middle Trickett led for 2,200 only for Ivey to raise to 15,000. It was enough to cover the Brit (12.8k back) and he snap folded.

Hand 2
The very next hand Trickett made it 800 to go from the button to face a 2,500 three-bet from Ivey. Trickett's remaining chips went in and this sent Ivey into the tank. He didn't say word, just stared his his opponent. At one point he fake-called and then gave a wry smile at his action, then, CALL.