Online Poker: Hansen Approaching $18M In LossesGuy Laliberté Says He Was 'Scammed' While Playing Online Years Ago |
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The last seven days of action on Full Tilt Poker for Gus Hansen resulted in losses of around $335,000, according to HighstakesDB. With that performance the Gus Hansen screen name has dropped to an all-time worst of $17.8 million in lifetime losses on the Full Tilt Poker software.
A total of $14.6 million of that money has come since the site relaunched in late 2012. Though he has had a few upswings this year, 2014 has been pretty disastrous for Hansen.
He is down nearly $3 million this year.
Since the screen name was created during the mid-2000s, Hansen has logged around 1.4 million hands with it. He was a site-sponsored pro under Full Tilt’s prior ownership and once again became a site-sponsored pro after PokerStars acquired the site.
Hansen could be the biggest loser in the history of online poker, but that distinction could also very well belong to billionaire Guy Laliberté, who is rumored to have lost millions upon millions on various accounts over the years playing a plethora of opponents.
Laliberté’s online poker play has been the topic of conversation lately in the poker community, as an interview was published just this week in which he says he was “scammed” while playing high stakes cash games on Full Tilt Poker.
The translation from French is a little rough, but here’s what he said: “The story of Full Tilt is clear: I got scammed, squarely, by people I knew personally who used [unfillted] bank, paying no money.” He added that “they printed money to play against me.”
Basically, Laliberté was claiming that his opponents were playing with virtually unlimited house money and that he was getting freerolled, and/or that they were pooling their money together to play him and thus sharing their losses or winnings.
It’s unclear precisely what he meant, but the speculation has been running rampant.
Full Tilt Poker, under prior ownership, was once accused by the United States federal government of operating as a “global Ponzi scheme.” Thousands of poker players were left empty-handed after the site became insolvent. The former owners have all settled their respective civil suits related to the business without admitting to any wrongdoing.
The poker community still views the old company as extremely shady, to say the least.
Despite the terrible experience of feeling cheated at online poker, the Cirque du Soleil founder didn’t abandon the poker community. In 2012, he hosted a $1 million buy-in tournament at the World Series of Poker and is set to do so again this summer.
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