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Online poker action: Gus Hansen back in the L-column
Posted by: James Carter. - Wed, 2010-10-13 11:22
Last week it's become pretty clear what Gus Hansen did with the money he had collected at the WSOPE’s high roller event: he took it to the online poker tables at Full Tilt poker and promptly donated most of it to his online opponents, particularly to some guy known as “DrugsorMe”. Not surprisingly, Hansen was the most active player of the past week, but he was also the biggest loser. At one point he was more than $1 million under the red line. He did make a small comeback though and finished a “mere” six figure loser.
In the meantime, DrugsorMe played only about 1,000 hands, quite a bit fewer than Hansen, but with a radically different result: he became the biggest winner of the week, taking home more than $650,000 in profits.
Most of that money did not come from Gus Hansen though. DrugsorMe took on Ilari Sahamies at the $200/$400 PLO 6-max tables, taking down a bunch of massive pots and generally dominating the action in which Urindanger and cadillac1944 took part as well. The biggest pot of the session unfolded as a $307k monster, which landed in DrugsorMe’s pockets after his pair of As got the better of Sahamies’ pair of 3s and Cadillac1944’s pair of Ks.
Gus Hansen kicked off the week by digging himself a $1.2 million hole. He did catch a lucky break on Monday though and after taking down a true monster of a pot, reduced his losses to around $800k.
Hansen’s recovery came at the expense of Urindanger, who dropped some hefty pots to the Great Dane at the $500/$1,000 heads-up capped PLO tables. With all that though, Urindanger managed to make the biggest winners of the week list with a $500k+ haul, while Hansen ended up on the casualty list, together with Tom Dwan and WastedPotential, who wasted about $445k of his potential this time around.
