High Stakes Poker: Gus Hansen Wins $528,000 on Sunday
Although he’s still down big overall, Gus Hansen (pictured) rebounded slightly over the weekend, banking over a half-million dollars on Sunday at the high-stakes poker tables, according to HighStakesDB. Hansen profited $528,000 on Sunday and is up $636,000 since Saturday night.
Fixed Limit Omaha Eight or Better was Hansen’s playground on Sunday, as he faced off against Alex “Alexonmoon” Luneau. According to HighStakesDB, FLO8 played to Hansen’s strengths, not Luneau’s: “Luneau has made no secret of his desire to play Hansen whenever possible, even setting up an alert system to notify him whenever his favorite ‘whale’ was at the tables. However, the FLO8 tables are an entirely different proposition to Triple Draw, and if nothing else, Hansen has way more experience at them than his French opponent.”
In fact, Hansen took $81,000 from Luneau in a span of just 50 minutes at the FLO8 tables. Then, in a session later on Sunday, Hansen piled up another $446,000 in profit to end the day up $528,000.
Despite his recent winnings at FLO8, Hansen has taken a beating at the high-stakes tables. According to the tracking site, he is down over $20 million since HighStakesDB began tracking him in 2006. In 2014 alone, the Dane is down $5.2 million, but has profited $257,000 in the last seven days. Here’s how Hansen has performed over the last eight years in each game HighStakesDB tracks:
Fixed Limit HORSE: +$430,000
Fixed Limit Hold’em: Even
Fixed Limit Omaha High-Low: -$678,000
No Limit Hold’em: -$1.5 million
Eight-Game: -$2.1 million
Mixed HA: -$2.6 million
Pot Limit Omaha: -$5.9 million
Draw Games: -$8.0 million
Hansen was the founding member of The Professionals, Full Tilt‘s former stable of sponsored pros, before parting ways with the site this year as Full Tilt ditched the concept. Hansen has $11.2 million in career live tournament winnings, according to the Hendon Mob, and owns one World Series of Poker bracelet.
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