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High-stakes poker matches

High-stakes poker matches, including those involving Phil Ivey and Andy Beal

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Jan 21, 2026

What common themes of risk and obsession appear in Phil Ivey's biography and The Wager?

and revolve around extremities of risk and the obsessive behaviors those environments breed: one set in the world of where reputation and money are at stake, the other in an where survival, authority,...

Jan 14, 2026

How do Phil Ivey’s edge-sorting and legal cases compare to moral dilemmas in survival narratives like The Wager (book/2023/film)?

Phil Ivey’s edge‑sorting saga is a contest over rules, agency and commercial norms where elite skill collided with civil courts that ultimately labeled the tactic cheating ; David Grann’s The Wager (b...