Insatiable lust for poker: Ivey back for more

Phil Ivey: Never look a gift fish in the mouth.

You'd think - after roughly seven days straight of live poker across two states, and $1.625 million in winnings - Phil Ivey might take a break.

But, I guess, if a notoriously soft player happens to then sit down at your own personal $500/$1,000 No-Limit Hold'em online table, it's just bad form not to sit and take his money for a while.

That was the case last night as Ivey - fresh from his first WPT title at the L.A. Poker Classic on Thursday, a flight to Vegas and two more days of play ending in a semi-final loss to Chris "Jesus" Ferguson in the NBC Heads-Up Championship - found himself right back at his high-stakes Ivey Deathmatch table on Full Tilt Poker.

For a little while, anyway.

This time, perhaps the most dominant force in poker squared off with guaranteed376 who, after a big winning session against Genius28 last week, may have been looking to roll his profits over against a possibly exhausted and less-sharp Ivey.

On the whole it looked like a short session, lasting only an hour or two and with fairly few huge Ivey-esque pots. And, in the end, it did appear as though Ivey came out ahead.

But, giving credence to the exhuastion theory, guaranteed376 did manage to take at least one big pot - for $107,998.50 - which ended up being the biggest Hold'em pot online over the last 24 hours.

Here's how the big hand began:

Full Tilt Poker Game #5477705591: Table Ivey Deathmatch - $500/$1,000 - No-Limit Hold'em - 21:51:49 ET - 2008/03/02
Seat 1: Phil Ivey ($210,991.50)
Seat 2: guaranteed376 ($53,994.50)
Phil Ivey posts the small blind of $500
guaranteed376 posts the big blind of $1,000
The button is in seat #1

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Phil Ivey raises to $3,000
guaranteed376 calls $2,000

*** FLOP ***

3♣ T♣ 8♠

guaranteed376 checks
Phil Ivey bets $4,000
guaranteed376 calls $4,000

*** TURN ***

3♣ T♣ 8♠ 4♣

guaranteed376 checks
Phil Ivey bets $11,000
guaranteed376 has 15 seconds left to act
guaranteed376 raises to $46,994.50, and is all-in
Phil Ivey calls $35,994.50

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