Bad day at the office....

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IVEY HAS A BAD DAY AT THE OFFICE

Online poker had more downs than ups for poker ace Phil Ivey this week

According to the High Stakes Poker Database, a website that monitors high-stakes online poker games, top international pro player Phil Ivey had a pretty bad day at his Full Tilt Poker "office" this week, losing two massive Omaha pots to Finnish online competitor Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies.

HSPD has one of the pots listed as the sixth-biggest of all time online. Full Tilt's ultra high-stakes table has been dubbed the "Ivey Thunderdome," by FT insiders, but it was more like a thunderstorm for Ivey as the cards went against him in a match between experts.

Ivey and Sahamies were playing heads-up Pot-Limit Omaha at the highest possible level at Full Tilt Poker, $500/$1 000. Ivey took a big hit when he lost a $213 000 pot when high rolling Ziigmund hit a flush on the river, and a few minutes later the two tangled in the biggest pot so far this (December) month at Full Tilt.

By the time the action and reaction had peaked, there was $321 983 in the pot....and Ivey came off second best, ending a day at the office that he would probably prefer to forget. But, there's always another day, another game....and another big pot in online poker.