seda1 takes Ivey for $147k pot

Ivey: Can't dodge bullets.

An experienced high-stakes poker pro like Phil Ivey is, by nature of the profession, all too aware of the cruel swings of poker variance.

And of course, as they always say, over the long term the better player will come out ahead.

But it's still got to feel like a bit of a kick in the teeth when an inferior player takes a big pot from you, even if you weren't ever ahead in the hand.

That was the case again late last night, as high-stakes rival and somewhat-regular Ivey nemesis seda1 sat down with Ivey for another heads-up session of $500/$1,000 No-Limit Hold'em at Table Ivey Deathmatch on Full Tilt Poker.

Total stats for the session are undetermined, but seda1 did get the better of it at least in one big hand - taking a massive $146,998.50 pot, which has taken over as the biggest Hold'em pot won online over the last month.

You can see the full hand history over in the new PL.com MarketPulse Biggest Pots section, but this is how the action started:

Full Tilt Poker Game #5301121480: Table Ivey Deathmatch - $500/$1,000 - No-Limit Hold'em - 1:28:39 ET - 2008/02/18

Seat 1: Phil Ivey ($126,497)
Seat 2: seda1 ($73,499.50)
Phil Ivey posts the small blind of $500
seda1 posts the big blind of $1,000
The button is in seat #1

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Phil Ivey raises to $3,000
seda1 raises to $9,000
Phil Ivey calls $6,000

*** FLOP ***

J♣ 5♥ 7♥

To see the rest of the hand, and a full list of the top ten Hold'em pots won over the past day, week and month, jump over to the MarketPulse section here.

Click on each player name as well to see his online player profile - and then wonder to yourself how a "red fish" can get the best of one of the most feared players in the world.

Be sure to check out some of the other stats sections over in MarketPulse also - over 20 million hands have been tracked already in Feb., which can reveal some pretty interesting details.

One example: Average pot size across all poker rooms.

Leading the way for biggest average pot size (usually indicating loosest and fishiest players) in February is Pacific Poker, with an average of $48.40 per pot - an increase of 2% over last month.

Also on the rise are pot sizes at Titan Poker, which have seen an increase of 7% over the past month to an average pot of $26.20.

Check out the rest of the top ten average pot sizes here.