On Tuesday at the annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas, Phil Ivey (pictured) made his fifth final table. Oh yeah, it occurred in just the 35th event of the 2012 WSOP, meaning that Ivey has reached the final table of one in every seven tournaments this year. As a result, Ivey earned his very own thread in the Live Poker forumhere on PocketFives in which he was affectionately dubbed the “Boss of All Bosses.”

This time around, Ivey made the final table of Event #35, $2,500 Mixed Hold’em. He’s in seventh place with a stack of 169,000, well behind the leader, Joep van den Bijgaart, who has 605,000.

The record for final tables in a single WSOP is six, a mark set by An Tran in 1992.

Upon hearing that Ivey was within reach of his fifth final table of the 2012 WSOP, Illinois PocketFives member willmccoyposted, “LOL wow dude is so sick! Just proves it’s a game of skill!” A player from the United Kingdom, MikeClarke, applauded Ivey’s heroics: “The guy is pretty insane. I’m still waiting for him to win the Main Event. Despite the field size, I’m sure he’ll put it off.”

MikeClarke added that Ivey not needing to worry about his bankroll could be contributing to his success: “An edge the guy has is he doesn’t need to worry about busting out. He has a bankroll that would allow him to play every WSOP event until after he’s dead. He puts side bets on most events he plays in that usually cover his buy-ins on top of that, so he has a fairly ‘risk-free’ series.”

Ivey has eight WSOP bracelets and has come dangerously close to #9 on multiple occasions this year. He finished seventh in a $5,000 Seven Card Stud High-Low Split-Eight or Better event for $34,000 before turning in a runner-up finish in a $10,000 Pot Limit Hold’em tournament for $275,000.

Ivey wasn’t done there. What would have been considered a successful WSOP for many players marked just the first 15 events for Ivey, who proceeded to take third in a $5,000 Omaha High-Low Split-Eight or Better event for $136,000. His most recent final table came in a $10,000 HORSE event and was good for $99,000 after a fifth place exit.

Bracelet bets could also be fueling Ivey during this year’s WSOP. You’ll recall that he sat out the entire 2011 WSOP because players on the online poker room he once represented, Full Tilt, had not been paid back.

One PocketFives member from Georgia, blufhard, speculated, “I’m really curious as to how many millions he has in bracelet bets to have this kind of drive and focus in all these tourneys. Just unfucking real.”

Ivey helped his cause late in the day on Tuesday after raising to 13,000 on the button pre-flop and getting a call from Jeremy Ausmus. On a flop of Q-8-5 rainbow, both players checked and the turn was a 7. Ausmus check-called a bet of 15,000 from Ivey and the river was another 7. Both once again checked and Ivey rolled over K-8 for eights-up to scoop the pot and pad his stack ever so slightly heading into the final day.

Here are the chip stacks for the nine players left in Event #35:

1. Joep van den Bijgaart – 605,000
2. Samuel Golbuff – 526,000
3. Michael Gathy – 418,000
4. Erik Cajelais – 368,000
5. Chris indariva Tryba – 347,000
6. Salman Behbehani – 253,000
7. Phil Ivey – 169,000
8. Brent Wheeler – 158,000
9. Michael Foti – 105,000

On Monday, California’s Max Steinberg defeated Switzerland’s Samuel Gerber in the finale of Event #33, $1,000 No Limit Hold’em. Steinberg banked $440,000, while Gerber walked away with $273,000, or 258,000 Swiss Francs. Third place went to longtime PocketFives member Matt All In At 420 Stout (pictured), who served up three straight double ups to Gerber to cripple his stack.

In the first double up, Gerber had the best of it with Q-10 against Q-7. In the second, Gerber was all-in before the flop and once again ahead with A-7 against J-6. In the final double up, Gerber held pocket eights and won a race against Stout’s A-K. The three-hand stretch saw Stout’s chip stack slashed from 4.2 million to 400,000. Steinberg ultimately took out Stout in third place. Stout cashed for $192,00 in his second career Las Vegas WSOP final table.

Here were the results from Event #33:

1. Max Steinberg – $440,238
2. Samuel Gerber – $273,385
3. Matt All In At 420 Stout – $192,813
4. Dylan Pokerl)evil Hortin – $139,258
5. Joseph Marzicola – $101,802
6. David Nicholson – $75,314
7. Ryan Protential Laplante – $56,372
8. Vitaly Meshcheriakov – $42,688
9. Christopher Shaw – $32,702

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