Phil Ivey won his 7th bracelet in the $2,500 Omaha/7 Card Stud Hi-Lo mixed game. Here's how he did it:

In the final hand, Lee moved all in on third street with and Ivey made the call with . Ivey improved to three queens by the river and Lee finished with only a pair of jacks. Ivey’s three queens were enough to win him his second gold bracelet of the 2009 World Series of Poker and his seventh overall. Phil Ivey is now tied with Billy Baxter for fourth all-time in bracelet wins. In addition to his seventh bracelet, Ivey received $220,538 in prize money.

This further solidifies Ivey's position as the top poker player in the world and can only do more to improve his image at Full Tilt Poker (speaking of, here's a Full Tilt Poker Review). He is currently tied for 6th place on the all-time bracelet list and with one more will move into a tie for 4th. Can he do it this year? I certainly think there's a good chance, but wouldn't count on it. Winning a bracelet is HARD.

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After the National Heads Up Championship drew to a close, many Full Tilt Poker pros hit the tables online. Phil Ivey, of course, being one of them. He didn't waste much time before getting into a battle with Tom "durrr" Dwan.

The first featured hand occurred between Phil Ivey and Durrrr.  It was during a $500/$1000 Pot Limit Omaha hand as Ivey held 5s-Qc-7h-4s.  Preflop, from the small blind, Ivey raised to $3,000 and as usual, Durrrr raised to $9,000.  Ivey called and the players saw a flop of 6c-4d-Qh giving Ivey top and bottom pair.  Ivey led out for $14,000 and Durrrr raised to $49,000 and before you could blink, both players were all in and the pot had $401,999.  Durrrr showed Ad-7d-5c-6d for middle pair, an open ended straight draw and backdoor diamond flush draw.

The turn was the of diamonds giving Durrrr two pair that still trailed Ivey’s two pair of Queens and 5’s but also gave him an open ended straight flush draw.  However, the river was the Jack of clubs, a total brick and Ivey scooped the enormous pot.

Over the course of the session Phil Ivey ended up over $374k in the black over multiple tables.

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Phil Ivey is on his way back to being a positive player in 2009 with his great play the past few weeks. He recently played heads up with Tom Dwan for over FIVE HOURS in the Ivey Thunderdome, $500/$1000 Pot-Limit Omaha table. When all was said and done Ivey emerged $1.1 million richer than he was when he sat down.

Key Hand: With over $650,000 in Ivey's stack and Dwan's at $168,000, Dwan opened for the standard $3,000. Ivey reraised to $9,000, Dwan four-bet to $27,000, and Ivey five-bet to $81,000 before Dwan flat-called. Ivey bet $162,000, enough to set Dwan all in, on the flop, and Dwan called, showing his flopped two pair and open-ended straight draw with , which was up against Ivey's . The turn, though, was the , the lead switching to Ivey with aces up. The river was the and "durrrr" was forced to reload again, with this $336,589 pot shipped to Ivey.

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