Big Poker Names

December 10, 2008

One of the biggest names in poker is taking on another lesser known player, although just as exciting. Phil Ivey is playing $500/$1,000 heads up No Limit Hold’em poker with LarsLuzak.

Luzak is known for his aggressive style of poker playing, and he will be trying to beat one of the most celebrated poker players out there today – Phil Ivey. The pot is just under $100,000 – with both players trying their best to take it.

They started the game with Luzak having almost 41bb and Ivey having a little more than 400bb. Ivey is well known all over in the poker world, while Luzak is well known as an online poker player, but initially seemingly not as strong a player as Ivey is. Ivey was given the opportunity to take him on, and jumped at the chance to play a different kind of poker battle.

The two poker players started officially with Luzak having $40,764 and Ivey having $410,193. The game went back and forth with Ivey on top then Luzak taking a $81,528 pot that just had to hurt. The hands play out with many thinking that Ivey would take it with his pair of Aces and tens, but Luzak takes it with three of a kind tens.

At this point, Ivey’s stack is still much larger than Lusak’s but he is making a nice dent in it. We can only wait to see how the game plays out to see who the winner will be.