Last night John DAgostino and Phil Ivey were on Full Tilt. John is a regular but from what I have noticed Phil isn't. Phil came on late and he was playing from his hotel room in NY. Anyhow there is always a lot of chat going on and then someone mentioned Phil Hellmuth was playing at UB. I went to check it out and figured he would be at the high stakes NL table which he was. You could hardly see the table since there is max of 200 observers. It's pretty lame since you can't chat there anyhow. It wasn't long and Phil was up over $20k. He got kinda lucky on one hand where he had KK and the other guy had 88 but the flop came J8J for the boat. Then a rag came on the turn but guess what happened on the river? A King came so he had a bigger boat and the guy thought he was good and went all-in. While I don't like Phil H. he played pretty good.

Ivey is actually a regular but noone will ever play him since he sits 200/400 and wants to play heads up stud or limit hold em.

The only one I've seen play him heads up often is Andy Bloch in limit hold em. they take turnsd exchanging 5K for the most part

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I have seen Hellmuth make some really good scores lately.

He hit aces full of kings at a 50/100NL game and raked in a $17k pot. He bought in for 3k.

Yeah I saw that in Virginia. Lemphis payed him off with J7o.

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LOL Now that's funny!!!!!!

As much as I played at Full Tilt last month this was the first time I saw Ivey. In fact Full Tilt invited me to there $15k freeroll NL tourney this Sat. John says head up Ivey always beats him. John is usually at the $100/200 limit table but I got lucky one night when he went to a $30/60 table playing vs. one other guy. So for the experience I decided to come in with a $1000 (I know it's short) but only to play one round. I waited for the BB which didn't take long and John folded his hand. The other guy raised and I had 5,6 off which I called the $30. I missed the flop completely and the guy bet, I folded deciding not to raise and try to make him fold. Then I was the small blind and that guy folded to me and I raised it to John with J,2s clubs. John called and the flop came 8c,Ac,8d. With only a flush draw I came out betting and he folded. Then I saw 2 cards for free on the next turn and folded and was done. I broke even but lost $1 to the rake for the 2 hands played. While these pro's are good there not unbeatable. In the long run and without the right BR you will be in trouble.

You've decided this after sitting in 2 30/60 hands?

No, sorry it sounded that way.