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The poker grapevine – Hansen one of January’s top winners

Posted by: James Carter. - Wed, 2011-02-02 11:01

The poker grapevine – Hansen one of January’s top winners


Gus Hansen, once known among his nosebleed stakes peers as the Full Tilt Poker ATM, has closed the month of January on the receiving end of the second largest cash game profit, second only to the pile of money scraped together by Di Dang.
Hansen has played well all through the month and at the end of it, he reaped the rewards: an impressive $900k+ in profits. The notoriously streaky Great Dane managed to steer clear of large swings in January, logging one winning session on top of the other.
Most of his money came from the $500/$1,000 PLO capped game tables at Full Tilt Poker. Even the other day, he found time for yet another winning session to wrap up a thus far excellent 2011: he played against Scott Palmer at his favorite tables, putting the maximum of $40k into the middle several times.
He took down several 80k pots too, some of them on pure luck, but then again, Lady Luck does seem to prefer to side with the winners and Hansen is just that these days.

Hansen didn’t shy away from running the turn and the river twice either with tons of chips on the table, winning both runs anyway whenever needed. Hansen may have been one of the biggest winners at Full Tilt Poker, but over at PokerStars, where the high stakes cash game action seems to intensify from one day to another, it was Will Molson who took the laurels profits-wise. Molson – who won the $25k High Roller event of the 2011 PCA - tangled with several PokerStars regulars, among them with Daniel Negreanu. Needless to say, it was Molson who came out with the profit from that confrontation, at one point handily lifting a $101k pot off his Canadian opponent.
The biggest winner of the year so far is Gus Hansen, who is closely followed by Di Dang. Patrik Antonius did pretty well too. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Phil Ivey and Nekotyan highlight the losers’ list.


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