High Stakes Poker: Gus Hansen Up $500,000 in Three Days
The past three days have been pretty profitable for Full Tilt Poker Professionals front man Gus Hansen (pictured). The first member of the Professionals, Full Tilt’s pro team that also includes Viktor Blom, Hansen has earned over $530,000 in the last three days, according to HighStakesDB.
On Saturday, Hansen excelled at the 2-7 Triple Draw tables. According to HighStakesDB, he was a one-man army at the non-Hold’em game: “He won $78,700 in an hour-long session playing Isildur1, Seb86, and Kagome Kagome, and then won a further $176,900 in a near two-hour evening session where he played Alexonmoonheads-up for half-an-hour before the pair were joined by OMGClayAikenfor the next hour. Both players lost $88,500, with Gus winning $176,900.”
Hansen was up $280,000 on Saturday alone, according to HighStakesDB, and was first tracked by the site in 2006. The Danish poker pro is down a colossal $10 million in HighStakesDB’s results, including nearly $6 million in Pot Limit Omaha alone. In Mixed HA, he is down $2.6 million and in Draw games, Hansen has shed $1.7 million. In No Limit Hold’em, he is a $1.5 million loser.
Hansen is only a winner at two games that HighStakesDB has tracked: HORSE and Eight Game. Here are the five biggest pots he has won across all games, according to HighStakesDB:
Date: January 24, 2009
Game: $500/$1,000 PLO
Pot Size: $537,750
Date: May 30, 2009
Game: $500/$1,000 PLO
Pot Size: $478,289
Date: October 26, 2008
Game: $500/$1,000 NLHE
Pot Size: $446,966
Date: December 29, 2008
Game: $500/$1,000 PLO
Pot Size: $388,072
Date: January 21, 2009
Game: $500/$1,000 PLHE HA
Pot Size: $380,463
On the tournament front, Hansen is the fifth all-time money leader in World Poker Tour history at $4.0 million. He has one World Series of Poker bracelet to go with $1.2 million in career WSOP earnings. According to the Hendon Mob, Hansen is #15 on poker’s all-time tournament money list at $11.2 million and is tops in Denmark.
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