Ivey owes poker nothing! No one who plays a game owes the sport anything. Being in the spot light only attracts undue attention from the Idiotic IRS and every other moronic section in the US government. People have been winning and losing huge dollars before poker became TV mainstream, an the real players already knew who the best players were/are. Phil Ivey plays cards an keeps his yap shut. It is not his responsibility to anyone to do any more or less than that.
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