Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008

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Ivey crushes seda1 for $600k

Ivey: seda1? He's my man.

By Christopher Hunt

It's only a matter of time, really, when a deep-pocketed amateur sits down at a high-stakes game with a seasoned pro.

Eventually, the money flows to the pro.

High-stakes rivals Phil Ivey and the as-yet-unidentified seda1 resumed their ongoing battle at $500/$1,000 No-Limit Hold'em yesterday, and when the smoke cleared this time, Ivey was left sitting with $800k - $600k of that formerly belonging to seda1.

Rumors abound as to the identity of seda1, with speculation on the forums alluding to everyone from fellow pro Barry Greenstein (highly unlikely) to a young silk industry magnate (seda means silk in Spanish) to Tiger Woods (laughable) to rapper Jay-Z (the leading candidate at the moment, with plenty of anecdotal evidence to support the claim).

Whoever he is, he definitely doesn't play like a pro, check-calling his big hands rampantly post-flop and never betting them for value. But he can certainly handle a big bankroll swing.

After a six-hour session of $500/$1,000 blinds at Table Ivey Deathmatch on Full Tilt Poker, it's also inevitable those two now completely dominate the top 10 list of biggest pots won online over the last day, week and month.

Seda1 has dragged a few of those pots his way - maxing out at a $255k pot won with A 2 - but Ivey has got the best of it by far, taking at least seven pots over $170k and totaling well over $1 million.

Check out all of the pots and hand histories over in the MarketPulse biggest pots section, but here's how the biggest - for a crazy $385,000 - played out:

Full Tilt Poker Game #5322680218: Table Ivey Deathmatch - $500/$1,000 - No-Limit Hold'em - 19:55:26 ET - 2008/02/19

Seat 1: Phil Ivey ($313,922.50)
Seat 2: seda1 ($192,475.75)

seda1 posts the small blind of $500
Phil Ivey posts the big blind of $1,000

The button is in seat #2

*** HOLE CARDS ***

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

*** FLOP ***

6 8 J

Phil Ivey bets $14,000
seda1 calls $14,000

*** TURN ***

6 8 J 3

Phil Ivey bets $39,000
seda1 raises to $163,000
Phil Ivey raises to $287,000
seda1 calls $6,475.75, and is all-in
Phil Ivey shows [A A]

seda1 shows [7 J]
Uncalled bet of $117,524.25 returned to Phil Ivey

*** RIVER ***

6 8 J 3 9

Phil Ivey shows a pair of aces
seda1 shows a pair of jacks
Phil Ivey wins the pot ($384,951) with a pair of aces
seda1 is sitting out

*** SUMMARY ***

Total pot $384,951.50 | Rake $0.50
Board: [6 8 J 3 9 ]
Seat 1: Phil Ivey (big blind) showed [A A] and won ($384,951) with a pair of aces
Seat 2: seda1 (small blind) showed [7 J] and lost with a pair of jacks

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