Ivey Loses Against Ilari Sahamies at Full Tilt

[TomasJ]

Phil Ivey had been absent from the high stakes virtual tables recently as he probably is very busy preparing for the final table. But, during the weekend he decided that it was time to drop by and check out how his fellow poker pros were doing.

Ivey found himself playing against Ilari 'Ziigmund' Sahamies in a heads-up PLO match. The encounter lasted for about 300 hands and Ziigmund won about $270,000 from Ivey only on Saturday.

The pros decided that Sunday also seemed like a good day to continue the match and this time Sahamies managed to take $200,000 more from Ivey, the game continued but Ivey decided he had had enough for the weekend. In total, Ivey lost $470,000.

Was he nervous? Has he focused too much on live poker that he has began to forget what online poker is like? I do not really know but watch some videos of the action here.

If you look around that page you can watch some other re-plays of the match.