Phil Ivey’s $476,000 Weekend

Even though Phil Ivey has occasionally struggled here and there with his online high stakes poker game in recent months, it emerges that the Full Tilt pro is back in action, as he won over $476k this past weekend on his sponsor’s site.

Ivey’s main opponent over the weekend was Kagome Kagome, he was previously known as IHateJuice before receiving a compulsory name change from Full Tilt Poker Review. Ivey and Kagome took on in a relatively brief battle of 311 hands, in which Ivey systematically took $476k from Kagome playing heads up Limit Hold’em at the $3000 / $6000 stake level.

With the match, Ivey gained solid redemption for a player who with an unfortunate $600k downswing. In his entire career, Ivey has never finished a calendar year with unconstructive earnings. In combination with his all-time online winnings of about $18 million, this fact incites many to point that Ivey is still one of the best overall players worldwide. When using Full Tilt Poker don’t forget to use its Full Tilt Referral Code to avail all bonuses.