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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After accepting Tom Dwan's challenge it seems that Phil Ivey has been warming up with some Pot Limit Omaha action at Full Tilt. How's he been playing? So far, so good.

River J66T [9]
Ziigmund checks.
Phil Ivey bets $37,200.
Ziigmund calls $37,200.
Phil Ivey shows TJJA.
Ziigmund mucks.
Phil Ivey wins $146,599.

Of course, flopping a full house isn't exactly rocket science but the way Phil Ivey went after this pot (and Ziigmund's money) is still impressive. Expect Ivey to be multi-tabling at Full Tilt for the next few weeks as he gears up for this challenge.

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Phil Ivey is a master of all poker games. From Hold Em to Pot Limit Omaha to Blind Man's Bluff, he is the man. This weekend his game of choice was Pot Limit Omaha at Full Tilt Poker. He squared off against Gus Hansen, OMGClayAiken and others. Let's just say Gus Hansen didn't have the best day.

On Sunday, Gus Hansen was playing Pot-Limit Omaha on three different tables and managed to drop some big bucks. It appears that most of the big pots that Hansen played at during his sessions on Sunday, he ended up on the losing end.

He had a couple good hands against Brian Hastings for almost $100k pots per hand, but it couldn't make up for three hands of more than $100,000 pots that he lost to OMGClayAiken and Phil Ivey.

Phil Ivey is no stranger to Pot Limit Omaha as he won the World Series of Poker $2,500 Pot Limit Omaha Championship back in 2000. Ivey took down a huge pot here that really sent Hansen reeling.

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Phil Ivey entered event #3 at the WSOPE, the £5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha tournament, and that didn't last very long.

Pot-limit Omaha is certainly a game that took root in Europe before it began taking America by storm, so it was only natural that some of Europe's biggest names would turn out for Event #3 of the World Series of Poker Europe - £5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha.

Let's hope this weekend is better when the £10,000 NL Hold Em tournament begins.

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