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| Pokerazzi |
| Justin Shronk scours the Internet forums and deciphers the tournament trail scuttlebutt to bring you the best dirt and gossip professional poker has to offer. Welcome to Pokerazzi! |
| Who is “seda1”? |
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Whoever it is, they’re rich (or used to be).
Phil Ivey continued to make up his losses from a bad February start by booking another big win against “seda1” on Tuesday. The match took place at the $500/1000 NL Deathmatch room on Full Tilt and ended when “seda1” missed a flush draw after getting it all in the middle against Ivey’s top pair for a $273,000 pot. Earlier in the match, the two had played a $500,000 pot (that Ivey also won) and Phil ended the session taking $600k total from “seda1” (at one point, Ivey had over $800k on the table). The players are also rumored to be cross-booking, which means “seda1” has to send an additional $600k to Ivey after the match was over.
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Phil and “seda1” have been playing quite a lot as of late, and rumors have started as to the identity of “seda1.” First, railbirds predicted it was Barry Greenstein – mostly due to the fact that Phil says he knows seda’s identity (but can’t reveal it), and it has become clear that the two are on the phone for at least portions of their heads-up matches. It, however, became evident that seda was not Barry after people got a chance to watch his play (which most have described as fairly passive and poor overall). Some diligent railbirds have also datamined the matches, and apparently seda’s “aggression level” ranks at a paltry 1 out of 10 (which clearly is not Barry’s style, especially against an uber-aggressive player like Phil).
The second rumor was quickly put to bed as “seda1” was playing Ivey heads-up during a Houston Rockets game in which Tracy McGrady was playing. That would be some serious multi-tasking.
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The latest theory’s are that “seda1” might be rap mogul Jay-Z. Jay has played in a few tournaments before and reportedly does know Phil. This would explain seda’s apparent lack of experience and skill despite playing at nosebleed levels, as well as Phil’s reluctance to reveal his identity. Others have speculated rapper Nelly and even Tiger Woods, but that seems too clichéd and convenient.
Whoever “seda1” turns out to be, I think it’s pretty agreed upon that it is a non-poker pro celebrity. Right now Jay-Z is the favorite, and if he keeps his “money ain’t a thang” attitude by playing nosebleed with Ivey, he may soon have 100 problems (sans bitch).
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| The Small Game |
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Ivey had another big score this week. During one of his sessions at his $500/1000 Deathmatch table, Phil decided to play a few hands with the commoners. As some Full Tilt pros are known to do, Ivey sat at a low-limit NL table to spend some time with fans looking to “learn, chat, and play with the pros.” Phil was sitting with $8.30 at a $.05/.10 no-limit table when he ended up involved in a HUGE hand.
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An early position player raised to 65 cents, and Phil moved all-in from middle position. The button called off his last $5.40, the big blind called of his stack of $6.20, and the original raiser moved his last $7.65 into the pot. The four-way all-in revealed the following hands:
Ivey – AhKh
Button – KsKd
Big Blind – JhTs
Raiser – 5c5h
Ivey was way behind, but flopped an Ace, busted the other three players, took his $26.65 winnings, and promptly executed a hit-n-run on the microdonks. He then turned his full attention back to his $500/1000 match in which his hit-n-run pot represented approximately 2.5% of one big blind. |
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| Full Tilt Hackzors |
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Many online players were complaining of sites being down for extended periods of time this week. This frequently happens to smaller sites with fewer resources but not as it was this week with larger sites like Full Tilt (including one during the final table of the FTOPS Main Event).
It has been discovered that the outages were due to something hackers and other nerdlingers refer to as a DDoS.* A DDoS is described as “saturating the target (victim) machine with external communications requests, such that it cannot respond to legitimate traffic, or responds so slowly as to be rendered effectively unavailable.”** Basically, the attack simulates huge amounts of traffic to the site, making it crawl or become unavailable for normal users.
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| Party Casino, as well as some smaller poker sites (Titan Poker, Virgin Games, and CD Poker), were also targeted. Full Tilt is still experiencing some temporary outages over the last few days, but they seem to be working the problem out. The reason for the attacks is still unknown, however it must be noted that sometimes hackers hack for the sake of hacking.
*according to Shadowserver (http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Calendar.
20080218) and PokerKing (http://www.pokerkingblog.com/)
**according to Wikipedia |
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