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Gus Hansen back on the warpath
Posted by: James Carter. - Sun, 2010-01-17 10:24
One of the biggest online losers of 2009, Gus Hansen made waves at the end of last year through an announcement that he would retire, at least for a while. That while proved to be an extremely short one though, as last week has already seen the Great Dane back in action at
Full Tilt’s nosebleed tables.
While the high stakes action has been a far cry from the Isildur1 era lately, it still provided enough traction for Hansen to start the year off on the right foot. He booked a $559K profit a few days ago, thus getting at least some of the blood-thirsty sharks off his end for the new season.
Last Saturday, players at the $2,000/$4,000 7-game tables must have thought it was their lucky day when the Dane showed up there to play. Things didn’t turn out the usual way though and Hansen left the 7-Game with a $45,000 profit.
Emboldened by the run-god feel of the action, he then took on Patrik Antonius heads-up at two tables of $500/$1,000 and $1,000/$2,000 OE where he won another $71,000. Thus, everyone’s favorite victim closed Saturday with a $116,000 profit. On Sunday, he dropped all that profit though, and lost some more to top it off, getting away from the $1,000/$2,000 7-game tables $181,000 under the red line. It appeared as though things had returned to normal, but Hansen obviously didn’t feel that way about the situation. He returned to action, and by Tuesday, he’d worked himself back up around $550k into the black.
Most of his winnings came from the 7-Game tables and only smaller fraction of them from the PLO tables. Tuesday’s biggest pot came at PLO though. Hansen was playing Cole South at the $500/$1,000 PLO tables when the monster landed.
South opened the betting with 9s,9d,8c,5c and Hansen flat-called him with 9c,8h,8s,5s. The flop fell Qs, 7s, 6d giving both players straight draws. The 4d on the turn ignited the gunpowder keg, because it gave both players an 8-high straight. The money went all-in and the 10s on the river filled Hansen’s flush draw for the $193,991 win.
Whatever becomes of Hansen’s good run, one thing is certain: seeing him back at the nosebleed tables will provide railbirds one more reason to stick around.
