Gus Hansen
Leading member of the Full Tilt Professionals, Gus Hansen, had a fantastic day playing poker yesterday. At both the 2-7TD and the FLO8 tables, Gus was on fire.
The beginning of the day didn’t look that great as he when started off at the 2-7TD $1k/$2k tables by losing $21,540 over 163 hands. Seemingly chasing his losses, Gus stepped up to the 2-7Td $1.5k/$3k tables, and his day started to turn in a happier direction.
The next 493 hands of lo-ball play saw Hansen win $203,873, with some of the action against fellow Full Tilt Professional, Viktor “Isildur1” Blom. Blom wasn’t having as god a day as Gus, and a decent percentage of the money won by Hansen was taken from Blom.
With a daily profit standing at $182,333, Gus switched up to playing FLO8, and again, ended up playing some of his action against the High Stakes cash genius that is Viktor Blom. However, changing game didn’t help Viktor win any more money, but Gus wasn’t in that boat. He was in the other, much bigger, prettier boat that had all the winners on it, as he started to crush the FLO8 tables in the same way he had been crushing the 2-7TD tables. He was obviously still in Monte Carlo, as that’s those sort of boats tend to live.
Over the next 14 hours, Gus was playing FLO8 over a bunch of tables, and managed to play 2933 hands, with action against Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond, Kyle “KPR16” Ray, “PostflopAction” as well Blom.
During this time, Hansen had managed to rack up $1,326,915 profit against these players at the High/Low Omaha format.
Gus stopped playing at around 11am Monte Carlo time, and I’m guessing went straight to bed while the rest of the poker players in Monte Carlo either went home via the airport, or were playing the during the final day of the EPT Grand Final festival at the local casino.
We caught some of Gus’s action, and have a little video for you below:
Hansen has been on a steady downswing since the return of Full tilt back in November, and at $1,509,248, this is his biggest winning 24 hours since then. Even after this impressive display, Gus is still down a total of $1,498,844 for the year. Maybe this is a turning point for “The Great Dane,” who was re-analysing his game when I spoke to him back in March when I spoke to him at EPT London. Maybe that process has started to bear fruit, and Gus will continue to dig himself out the hole he has found himself in. We’ll be keeping an eye on him over the coming months, and we’ll let you know where Mr Hansen’s profit line goes to.
