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Online Poker Action – Hansen Back in “L” Column
Posted by: Randy Williams - Fri, 2013-08-30 10:33
Tom Dwan, Viktor Blom and Gus Hansen are the current faces of
Full Tilt Poker and it’s safe to assume that when they signed with the recently re-launched operation, they didn’t do so to personally finance some of the lower-profile competition at the site. Yet, that’s pretty much what they appeared to be doing over the last few days: they all dropped massive sums of money, several hundreds of thousands of dollars each, but of the three, Gus Hansen’s was the worst run by far. Although he had indeed been having a tough time at the online as well as the live poker tables, sometimes reportedly questioning whether or not the game has overtaken him, Hansen seemed to be on the trail to recovery lately. All that went down the drain last week though, when he left about $534.6k at the high stakes tables at Full Tilt Poker, having logged 2,367 hands.
Hansen played $1.5k/$3k 2-7 Triple Draw and $2k/$4k Fixed Limit Omaha 8 and that’s where he incurred the losses. Everything accounted for, the Great Dane is now around $3.5 million under the red line for 2013.
Tom Dwan, who has been staying away from the tables lately, logged a return-attempt and promptly dropped $210k at the $400/$800
NL Holdem tables.
There were several players who benefited from his meltdown, among them Denoking, Kidpoker705 and IReadYrSoul. Dwan achieved the counter-performance in less than 1,000 hands.
Viktor Blom joined his fellow Full Tilt Professionals on the losers’ list with a $255k loss. Blom had apparently played in some of the same games that Hansen found impossible to conquer, with rather similar results.
Wherever there are losers, there have to be winners as well. Last week’s biggest winner was MalACEsia, who finally managed to turn a significant profit: $370.6k.
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