Three short stories of comings and goings in the poker world including Phil Ivey hinting at a possible return to live tournaments, Doyle Brunson calling time on his ‘extended break’ from Twitter, and Dani Stern leaving the game behind.

I don’t know Phil Ivey anymore than I know Donald Trump, but my sources tell me he’s sound as a pound. There’s a humility about the man, who isn’t likely to forget the game that made him such a sledgehammer performer in the world of poker. And so it makes it all the stranger that Ivey was missing in action throughout his Poker Hall of Fame induction year.

Ivey missed every major tournament in 2017, including the entire World Series of Poker (WSOP), only surfacing occasionally to play a few hands of poker in Bobby’s Room.

Without any official word from Camp Ivey the assumption was his legal battles with Genting and the Borgata were the primary reasons for his low profile. Ivey knows had he grabbed a microphone in the Western world he would have faced a barrage of questions about his Baccarat game.