Billionaire Andy Beal, Meet Badass Phil Ivey

Andy Beal, the Dallas, TX billionaire banker, has been playing heads-up against the “Corporation” (Brunson, Brunson, Harman, Forrest, et al) in Vegas off and on for quite some time now, and Beal has gotten the best of the pros at times. In fact, at one point recently the Corporations’ $10 million buy-in was pretty well soaked up by Beal. Then along came Phil Ivey with a fresh off the shelf can of whupass to open up on Mr. Beal. Can you say $16 million. That is apparently how much Ivey took off Beal before the last match was all wrapped up. Ivey won back the $10 million previously lost by The Corporation and another $6 million for good measure. Word is that Beal had been extended an invitation to the NBC televised National Heads Up Poker Championship prior to the big loss, and Beal wasn’t up to any more poker after getting spanked by Ivey, so he passed on the invite.