Sahamies, a reckless abandon player on full tilt poker, is known for being a high action player. It is no wonder why Ivey would want to play him heads up in this $500/$1000 Pot Limit Omaha Hi. After watching a few hands Sahamies wasn’t up to his reckless self and seemed to be playing relatively tight, until he was dealt the hand he would want to work with.
Ivey sitting on the button, raises to $3,000 to Sahamies with AhKsKd8s.
Ziigmund re-raises to $9,000 with QsQh6s6h.
Ivey re-raises to $27,000.
Ziigmund calls the $27,000
This pre-flop action usually isn’t uncommon with Ziigmund and obviously Ivey knows he has him beat going into the flop. Pre-flop Ivey was a 2.5/1 favorite of Ziigmund.
** The flop comes Qd 8h 5c.
Ziigmund checks his set of queens.
Phil Ivey bets $54,000
Ziigmund raises all in to $69,439
Ivey calls $15,439
After the flop, and Ivey’s huge continuation bet which was most of his stack. Ziigmund has turned into the 9/1 favorite and the hand doesn’t look good for Ivey
** The turn comes 10s
The turn brings Ivey 4 more outs with the straight draw, but Ziigmund is still a 5.5/1 favorite.
** The river comes 2s
** The board reads Qd 8h 5c 10s 2s
Ivey loses $192,878 pot to Ziigmund.
After losing this pot, Ivey sits out for a bit, Ziigmund gets up and leaves. Ivey then decides to reload another $100k in hopes of winning back his losses against a future opponent. Moments later Tom “Durrr” Dwan sits down to play Ivey. Durrr is also known as a crazy reckless player, more so than Ziigmund. Ivey soon leaves his seat letting Durrr sit and wait.
You can see both Durrr and Ziigmund play on High Stakes Poker Season 5.
