Phil Ivey ($180,572.15) played against David Benyamine ($131,393.85) in the $2000/$4000 HORSE table at Full Tilt.com known as the Ivey Glue Factory.  I haven’t seen Ivey sit down at one of his poker tables for awhile so I was happy to see some high stakes action.

They didn’t disappoint and the first hand I watched was worth $36,599.50. Phil Ivey won the hand with a 7 high straight. David Benyamine mucked his hand so unable to know what Ivey was up against.

There were a lot of $30k+ hands but not much above that. At the end of every hand the loser mucked so I am not able to really talk about the hands because its pointless not knowing what the player had that lost. But definitely some good poker action, regardless.

I was able to watch 50 hands before Phil Ivey sat out, at that point the chip count was:

• Phil Ivey ($159,767.65)

• David Benyamine ($152,189.35)

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Phil Ivey Played heads-up against Durrr in the $500/$1000 at the Ivey Thunderdome played at Full Tilt Poker.com. When I started watching the table Phil Ivey  had $193,994 while durrrr $55,999.

Phil Ivey controlled the whole game and won a majority of the large hands. While I watched only 50 hands Durrr had bought in for $100k on top of the $55,999 that he had when I started watching.

The match finally ended when Phil Ivey won a monster pot worth $115,396.50 holding [Js 7d 5d 6c] against Durrr’s [Ks 5s 5c 7c] and the board was: [4c 5h Jh Kd 8s]. Phil Ivey won with an eight high straight against durrrr’s three 5’s.

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I wasn’t planning on writing two posts today but I couldn’t help myself when I saw the Ivey Deathmatch active with Phil Ivey($622,872.50)  playing against seda1 ($183,487.25).

At one point in the match it looked like Phil Ivey was going to have over $800k with seda1 holding less then $30k in chips… Well it didn’t last long and seda1 won a couple large pots to tip the scales back a bit. There were a lot of large hands in the match with multiple $100k hands! While watching 50 hands at the table I was able to witness 4 hands that were over $100k.

One of the largest hand of the night (that I saw) was a $161,999.50 where seda1 folded after Phil Ivey re-raised $216,000 after seda1 bet $50k. This betting exchanged happened on the turn with the board showing: [3c 9d 7s Tc].

Well the largest hand that I saw was a $188k pot with an all-in after the flop by seda1. The flop was [8s 6h 7d] and seda1 held [8d 4d] while Phil Ivey had [As Ac]! Looks like seda1 is facing a world of trouble at this point with Phil Ivey dominating (61/34)…this didn’t last long though as the turn was a 3 (nothing there) but the river was another 8 and seda1 takes down the hand!

Wow, Ivey couldn’t be happy at this point.

When I left after about 125 hands the chip count was:

• Phil Ivey ($643,973.75)
• seda1 ($162,357)

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Phil Ivey ($68,498.50) played heads up against durrrr ($31,499.50) in the $500/$1000 Ivey Deathmatch. I assume both durrrr and Ivey bought in for $50k because earlier in the day durrr was sitting at the table waiting for Ivey with $50k.

Phil Ivey and Durrr were going back and forth with Durrrr winning a large pot worth $69,997.50 with 2 pair. Then a couple hands later Ivey on a $50k pot with his own two pair. 3 hands later Durrrr won a hand with trip 4’s against Ivey’s KQ and won $95,593.50.

Phil Ivey then bought in for another $50k. The game went back and forth for about 30 hands with no significant hands until Ivey Suffered a huge suckout to durrrr. Durrr had Q5 and Phil Ivey had 310 and the flop was [353]… After the flop there was a raise then re-raise and finally Durrr went all-in. Phil Ivey quickly called and was well ahead at this point until the next card flipped over was a 5! This gave Durrr the full house and the river was no help to either giving the pot worth $72,996 to Durrr.

Phil Ivey bought in for another $50k and then finally won a large pot worth  $105,999.50. In the hand, they both had two pair’s but Ivey’s was the bigger of the two. Phil Ivey then won a $50k pot after re-raising durrr.

When I left the heads up game the chip totals were:

Phil Ivey ($133,794.75)
durrrr ($66,182.75)

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Phil Ivey ($84,498.50) played heads up $500/$1000 No Limit Hold-em against seda1 ($113,981) in the Ivey Deathmatch table at Full Tilt Poker.com.

I sat down to watch the heads up poker match and 14 hands into it Phil Ivey goes all-in after the turn with the community cards showing: [8h 4d Jh Ts] …. The river was a [2c] and Phil Ivey showed [Qd As] against seda1’s [Ah Td] which gave seda1 the pot worth $150,993.50!

At this point Phil Ivey sat out while seda1 stayed at the table with $198,475.50! This didn’t last long as Ivey bought in for another $25k and resumed the poker match. The $25k didn’t last long (4 hands to be exact) when Phil Ivey lost to pocket jacks in a pot worth $53,644.50.

Phil Ivey is not one to give up and about a minute later bought in again with $100,000. The first hand back Ivey raises $6k pre-flop and then after the flop another $14k which is then re-raised by seda1 to $60k and Ivey promptly folds. Phil Ivey then lasted awhile longer until about 60 hands later he lost two $50k hands in the matter of a couple hands and went broke again… Didn’t take Phil Ivey long to get back on the horse and buy-in again for another $100k!

At this point in the match Phil Ivey has at least lost $200k and has $100k more at the table against seda1’s $300k. Well after watching the match for another 100 hands Phil Ivey had $155k while seda1 had $268k. So Ivey was then down only $150k…

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Phil Ivey Played two tables of $200/$400 Pot Limit Omaha Hi… He was also playing at a $500/$1000 Limit HORSE game.

At the Panthoen table the chips looked like:  digididopp ($23,064.50), Phil Ivey ($60,652),  sexyolivia ($49,427),  heirogliphic ($47,541.50) ,  Dustin Dirksen ($19,598) and tsarrast ($10,000).

At the Eginton table the chips were: Dustin Dirksen ($10,397), MrSmokey1 ($13,597), Phil Ivey ($75,864.50), digididopp ($0), is sitting out, Mark Vos ($8,997) and Kimbo320 ($16,795)

It was hard not to post a hand at either table with hands over $10k each. Phil Ivey folded a big hand against heirogliphic after already calling $14k but folding after a raise of $23,200. Phil Ivey then won a hand worth $38,593 against Dustin Dirksen with a king high flush against Dirksen’s two pair.

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Phil Ivey was not done for the day and he seemed unfazed by the huge loss to Ziigmund in Pot Limit Omaha earlier in the night. He sat down at the Ivey Deathmatch No Limit Hold-em table against seda1. The chip counts were: Ivey ($201,494)
and seda1 ($182,485.50).

There were a couple $15k  plus hands but the two large hands in the game were both won by Phil Ivey. The pots were $161,999.50 and $99,967.50 both of them were won with trip cards by Ivey. Phil Ivey then won two $50k plus hands to finish off seda1 and at the end Ivey had $470,966.50. (more…)

Phil Ivey ($282,487.50) played heads up against Ziigmund ($124,499) in a $500/$1000 Pot Limit Omaha Hi game at FullTilt Poker.com. This game was definitely high stakes with each having over $100k and Phil Ivey not messing around with over a quarter million dollars at the table.

At times it was hard to pick the better hands because they weren’t going past the flop and the hands were averaging $12k.

One hand in particular that was insane was a hand that was worth $125,999.50.  Ziigmund started the hand with a raise which Phil Ivey then re-raised. After the flop Ivey bet $14k which was called by Ziigmund.  After the turn Phil Ivey bet $40k which Ziigmund used time and eventually went over the top all-in. Phil Ivey then used time before his call but eventually folded the hand…the board showed: [3h 5s 9d Ad].

The match ended with the biggest hand I have ever written about…Phil Ivey lost with a king high straight against Ziigmund’s Ace high straight. The pot was worth $399,984.50. Phil Ivey sat out of the hand with the final chip counts: Seat  Phil Ivey ($153,464.75) and Ziigmund ($399,984.50)!

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Phil Ivey played against David Benyamine at the $1000/$2000 HORSE table at Full Tilt Poker.com. It was a heads up

game with David Benyamine with $49,734.10 and Phil Ivey had $80,062.

Phil Ivey was playing pretty well during the match and won a couple large hands including the last hand which was $22k. When I stopped watching about 65 hands later Ivey had $104k and Benyamine had $23k.
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This is the third day in a row I have posted high stakes hands with Phil Ivey. The reason is because he has been in almost every high stakes poker game, and is a popular player, so it is easy for me to pick him to watch. I still write about other high stakes players so don’t worry… this won’t become the Phil Ivey Blog. (Even though I am sure most viewers wouldn’t mind).

Phil Ivey was playing two $200/$400 Pot Limit Omaha Hi games. One of the tables was “Eginton” and he was playing against The Lipton Kid, durrr, Luck123, SxMxF and Cacambo. The other table was “Pantheon” and he played against durrrr and trex313. Both tables Gus Hansen was also playing at but he left mid way through.

At the Pantheon Table trex313 sat out and it was Phil Ivey heads up against durrr. Phil Ivey had $60k while durrr had $30k. They were even with about $40k each when I started watching and over the course of about 40 hands Phil Ivey was able to take about $20k from durrrr.

The Eginton Table was a different story. Phil Ivey was playing about even with $40k when I started watching and still $40k after about 60 hands.

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