Back to business for Gus Hansen
Hansen has earlier played some monstrous pots, having a hand in 15 of the 20 largest poker pots played online this year. Thanks to a big one in olden times on Jan. 2 one fancy is in good earnest different for Gus to protrude the kairos: he's not yet on the list of the year's biggest losers.
Although day one of '09 looked to have Hansen in an soon six-snowman hole, "The Great Dane" pulled out a prodigious Pot Limit Omaha hand opposite to trex313 to even equipment out.
After a few anciently beatings to the tune of $180,197 and $156,985 Hansen was gathering in seat one with a rack size of $93,798. trex313, known also by his real name of Hac Dang, was festivity in seat two in the papery blind with a bookstack size of $296,162. The hand came like this:
Preflop: trex313 Raises $2,500. Gus Hansen Raises $8,000. trex313 Raises $24,000. Gus Hansen Calls $18,000.
Flop: Ks 9c 3s
Gus Hansen bets $54,000. trex313 raises $108,000. Gus Hansen calls $12,798. trex313 shows a sick Ac 3h As Ad. Gus Hansen shows 8s 8c 6d 6s. An uncalled bet of $41,203 is returned to trex313.
The Turn just plain nuts another boy to faultless Hansen's luxurious but also left him to spurt the River and trex313's As. However, it was an harmless 5h and a $187,595 win for Hansen.
And just like that, Hansen is by and large, you guessed it, even Steven once around.
In fresh news, or lack thereof, Tom "drrrr" Dwan is no longer at the top of the online poker leaderboard. That's imminently because as far as we can tell, he's yet to play a hand. Our untangle is that he's heretofore got a calabash of champagne in each hand and is bothersome to hold on to what was an a bit thick 2008 as long as humanly muffled.
The top spot on the Market Pulse poker makings leaderboard is currently frosty for traheho, also known as 21-year-old Alex Torelli. That is considerable due to a tie of wins dead against Mike "the Mouth" Matusow in heads up $50-$100 No Limit Texas Hold 'em. One of those wins came on this hand:
Table Setup
traheho: Seat 1 - anthill size: $33,904. Mike Matusow: seat 2 - pile up size: $13,421. traheho posts arrant blind of $50. Mike Matusow posts big halter of $100.
Preflop
traheho raises $250. Mike Matusow raises $1,000. traheho calls $800.
Flop [3c 4c 4d]
Mike Matusow bets $1,600. traheho calls $1,600.
Turn 3c 4c 4d [6s]
Mike Matusow bets $3,300. traheho calls $3,300.
River 3c 4c 4d 6s [5d]
Mike Matusow bets $7,421. traheho calls $7,421. Mike Matusow shows Ks Kc. traheho shows 3s 3h for a full phratry, threes full of fours. More importantly he takes his mature yearly poker filthy lucre of $63,661 to the top spot on the Market Pulse leaderboard.
With 363 days of online poker play left to article on in 2009 we'd be agog if traheho held on to the top spot for long. Drrrr's gotta' drop those champagne bottles in due time soon.