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Online poker action – Hansen back in the black
Posted by: Jo Martin - Sun, 2010-04-18 12:28
Tom Dwan was not running roughshod over the online poker tables last week and Isildur1 was not present to generate a frenzy, but the nosebleed stakes online poker action was still interesting. After all, Gus Hansen was winning. That’s right. A short while ago the bad-luck haunted Great Dane embarked on a great winning spree and these last few days he kept soaking up the winnings. MicahJ was another player who did well.
Hansen had been up for a while this year, but then he seemed to have returned to his losing ways: he dropped money to pretty much everyone he played with. During these few feel-good days though, he recovered all those losses and he’s now around $750k in the black again. Last week, he did great against Phil Ivey and Cole South. The game was $300/$600 NL Holdem and the biggest pot of the session was a $153k monster which the Dane promptly took from South.
The hand began with a raise and a re-raise which took the action to $5,700. In the wake of the flop (which fell 7,10,7 rainbow), Hansen lead out with a $5,400 bet. South raised that and Hansen took it to $27,000 before South called and the turn card fell. The 4d on the turn proved to be the catalyst of the all-in that would follow on South’s part. Hansen made a quick call and tabled A,7 for the flopped trips, which made short work of South’s K,10.
MicahJ was another player who seemed quite unstoppable last week. He took on luckexpress10 at the $100/$200
Full Tilt Poker PLO tables, and then NEKOTYAN at the same stakes.
The biggest hand of the luckexpress10 session featured a $88k pot, which ended up in MicahJ’s possession. Both players had a wheel draw and a flush draw to go with it, but the hand was eventually decided by MicahJ’s overpair, which proved enough to land him the pot.
Against NEKOTYAN, MicahJ took down a $85k pot, in a hand in which he made a flush against NEKOTYAN’s two pair.
Last week, MicahJ, Gus Hansen and URnotINdanger2 proved to be the most successful
online poker players.
Phil Ivey, NEKOTYAN and Tom Dwan are the ones highlighting the losers’ list. After several weeks of continued success, Dwan has logged a $197k loss last week.
