Gus Hansen Dominates $500-$1,000 Cap PLOHigh Stakes Pro Continues His Hot Start in 2011 |
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Gus Hansen
On Monday, Hansen beat up Rui Cao for more than $300,000 in a short 100-hand session of heads-up $500-$1,000 cap pot-limit Omaha. The win brings Hansen’s lifetime earnings in the specific game to more than $3 million — by far his most profitable variant of poker online.
At the time of this article’s release on Wednesday morning, Hansen sat with $230,000 after just defeating David Benefield in the discipline for about $150,000 in less than 200 hands.
At the same time Hansen was crushing Benefield, the Danish pro was doing battle with the one of the biggest winners in the extremely popular limit deuce-to-seven triple draw on Full Tilt. Unknown triple draw regular “fishosaurusREX” is in the black more than $1 million playing the game so far in 2011.
Despite Hansen’s action in cap pot-limit Omaha and deuce-to-seven triple draw, things have been quiet recently in the online world. However, the cash games could receive a slight boast if Hansen’s fellow Dane, 2008 World Series of Poker main event champion Peter Eastgate, who announced last week he was returning to poker after a seven-month retirement, returns to the nosebleed stakes. Eastgate is down more than $500,000 lifetime playing cash games on PokerStars.
Dan Cates
On a flop of 8
6 4
, both Hastings and Cates held the nuts. After a series of bets all the money went into the middle, and the duo elected to run it twice. However, each separate turn-and-river combo were disastrous for Cates.
Hasting’s A
J 7 5 improved on the first run to a superior straight when the turn brought a 9 and the river a 10
. The second board yielded a K turn and a 2 on the river, giving Hastings a runner-runner flush. Cates mucked his 8 7 5 4, and Hastings raked in the $21,000 pot. According to Card Player’s Omaha Odds Calculator, the pot is split 75 percent of the time.
And finally, this past Sunday, Viktor “Isildur1” Blom defeated Eugene “MyRabbiFoo” Katchalov for $111,750 in the fourth installment of the SuperStar Showdown.
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