Phil Ivey crushes Million Dollar Cash Game

Let's just be honest here. If you had to stake your entire bankroll on one player in a cash game, you would pick Phil Ivey 99.5% of the time.

Ivey proved his dominance in the cash-game format yet again these past two days at the 2008 Full Tilt Poker Million Dollar Cash Game in London.

The stone-faced Ivey absolutely destroyed his competition at the big game and ended up winning over $500,000, which guaranteed him the FullTiltPoker.com Million Dollar Cash Game trophy for the second time since the event started in 2006.

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Perhaps most impressive is the fact that Ivey was able to bank more than $500,000 against players like Team Full Tilt-ers Gus Hansen, Mike Matusow, Patrik Antonius, David Benyamine, Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson, John Juanda, Andy Bloch, Eli Elezra and a few outside big-name players like Phil Hellmuth and Tom "durrrr" Dwan.

Some of the highlight reel hands included one where Ivey flopped a set of threes against Ferguson's pocket aces in a $531,000 pot. In another hand Ivey made Matusow fold the second-nut flush on the river to a stone-cold bluff.

It wasn't all bad for Matusow, however, as he actually walked away from the game a $130,000 winner. John Juanda also did all right for himself by taking home $69,000.

On the other side of things, Hellmuth and Antonius were rumored to have lost close to $200,000 each.

The only other player to win the FullTiltPoker.com Million Dollar Cash Game trophy is Tony G, who won $223,000 in the 2007 edition of the game. Ivey nearly won that year too but had to settle for second overall with a $101,100 profit.

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