Ivey 2nd to Norwegian at European Poker Tour

Phil Ivey showed up at the European Poker Tour in Barcelona unexpectedly and unexpectedly finished second on Saturday. Bjorn Erik Glenne of Norway trounced Ivey in what appeared a clinic on how to play muscle poker. Ivey had no answer and walked away with the runner-up prize.As the final table began, Ivey had the chip lead and it seemed like the inevitable Ivey win was queued up, but a funny thing happened on the way to heads-up: Ivey was down 12 to 1 in chips. That's right, when the third place finisher left the table, Ivey had a severe disadvantage as the very, very small stack. Ivey had somewhere around 350,000 to Glenne's four million or so. And so, with a little struggle, Glenne brought down the Norwegian hammer on Ivey. Ivey went home with 361,000 Euro, while Glenne took home 631,000 Euro.