Oskar Silow

In the first episiode of High Stakes Poker we could see how Tom Dwan offered Phil Ivey $2000 after the hand against Phil Hellmuth if he could show a hand better than a pair of jacks.  Since Ivey had QQ he could have showed the hand and cashed $2k from Dwan.  Ivey still choosed to muck his hand with a smile.  So why did Ivey say no to free money?!?  In his eyes it was worth more to let the other players belive that he might have had a bad hand and was making a play and maybe it was because of this that Ivey managed to take the rest of Hellmuths stack later in the show.  On top of that Ivey, who we usually see very quite at the table, folds the next hand and says something like “same hand as last hand” and everybody except Hellmuth laughs:)