taktloss Battles Gus Hansen in 12-Hour Triple Draw Session
Earlier this week, PocketFives published an article about Dan Cates being up $1.5 million in Triple Draw in a two-week span. The Triple Draw games on Full Tilt Pokerhave been in full swing recently and included a 12-hour marathon session between Sebastian taktloss Ruthenberg and Gus Hansen (pictured) on Thursday.
We’ll defer to HighStakesDBfor the details on the session itself. The tracking site outlined, “Hansen opened up well, winning $105K in an early morning 1.5-hour session. Just ten minutes later, the pair swapped tables and played for eight hours at table Monarcas, where taktloss built an enormous stack, which at one point was close to $1M. He ended the session up $877.4K. Just 16 minutes later, the players were back at table Monarcas and this time Hansen was the big winner, taking back $239.9K. In total, taktloss47 won $532.3K.”
What’s perhaps even more amazing is that Hansen, who is down nearly $16 million lifetime on Full Tilt, actually ended Thursday in the black, according to HighStakesDB, taking money from players like Ingenious89, BlondieCutie, ronnyr37617, SxMxFx, trex313, and no_Ola at Triple Draw and PLO to offset the bleeding.
HighStakesDB’s stats on Ruthenberg (pictured) haven’t been updated since mid-2011 since he opted out of the site’s long-term tracking. What we do know is that this month, he has scooped pots of $82,000, $67,000, $60,000, and $59,000, and stacked a $68,000 pot in January. At one point during Thursday’s session, a screen shot on F5 Poker showed Ruthenberg with a $923,000 stack compared to Hansen’s $69,000 at a $2,000/$4,000 Triple Draw table.
Ruthenberg won the EPT Barcelona Main Event in 2008 for nearly $2 million and has $3.4 million in live tournament winnings, according to the Hendon Mob. He is #10 on the all-time money list for Germany and was #15 worldwide on the money list in 2008. Hansen is #5 on the all-time money list for the World Poker Tour and #11 on poker’s all-time money list.
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