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Poker Pro Phil Ivey Swinging Hard Online

Ivey In The Black $483,000 Over The Past 30 Days

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Poker pro Phil Ivey has been having an up-and-down month playing the nosebleeds on Full Tilt.

The 10-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner won $368,000 yesterday, according to data from HighstakesDB. Over the last 30 days, Ivey is up $483,000 over 10,600 hands.

Here’s a look at his HighstakesDB graph for the past month.

On the software, Ivey plays under the screen name Polarizing and just last week he played his largest pot ever under that screen name. The hand was a $256,782 behemoth against Russian poker pro Alexander “PostFlopAction” Kostritsyn. The two grinders were likely going to chop it after all the money went into the middle on a QClub Suit 10Diamond Suit 6Spade Suit 7Club Suit board.

Ivey held KDiamond Suit JHeart Suit 8Heart Suit 9Diamond Suit and was up against Kostritsyn’s JClub Suit 9Heart Suit 8Diamond Suit 8Club Suit.

According to Card Player’s Omaha odds calculator, (assuming a single run-out) Ivey wins all of it 15 percent of the time, Kostritsyn wins the entire pot 22.5 percent of the time, and they chop the other 62.5 percent of the time. Both had the nuts on the turn, but each had draws. Kostritsyn’s flush draw was better than Ivey’s draw to a better straight.

They elected to run it twice, and the first river was the ADiamond Suit and the second was the 2Diamond Suit. Ivey won the first run-out with Broadway and the second run-out was chopped. In other words, Kostritsyn was quartered in this sick cooler situation.

They were playing heads-up.

Ivey seemed to get the better of his opponent throughout their match. Ivey won another six-figure hand, this time in hold’em, that likely featured a bad misclick from Kostritsyn.

Kostritsyn lost $447,000 over the past seven days. He has opted out having his long-term results tracked. Ivey has not, and thus we can see he’s still down nearly $2 million this year.