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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