Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Gus Hansen Nears $20 Million In Web Poker Losses



It’s unclear why Gus Hansen doesn’t just persist with live poker, the world through which he's one of the vital successful players within the history of recorded card playing.

A horrible past seven days on Full Tilt Poker ended in the Dane dropping nearly $1 million, which has brought his losses on 2014 to a brand new low of $4.66 million.

The recent plunge also put him at this lowest point ever at the software lifetime. Over time playing on Full Tilt Poker, the Gus Hansen screen name is now down greater than $19.5 million. That’s by far the worst for anybody account within the history of web poker.

The number is so large that the second-worst account of all-time is roughly $12.5 million at an advantage than Hansen. Unknown and inactive “noataima” lost just over $7 million from 2006-2008.

To be fair, noataima played just four percent of the hands that Hansen has played online. It has taken Hansen roughly 1.5 million hands since 2006 to lost the incredible sum.

Hansen took a break from online this year to travel during June and July. He made a stop in Las Vegas, and he said that he had a fair summer playing live cash games in Sin City. Upon returning to Full Tilt this month, Hansen actually went on an upswing of around $700,000. However, the streak was very short-lived, as Hansen soon went on a seven-figure slide, followed by a handy guide a rough uptick, after which this week, where he dusted off the profits after which some.

This month was the primary time that Hansen broke the $19 million in losses mark. Back in May, Hansen was approaching the $19-million threshold. The fast break was of no help.

Much of his losses during the last week came within the eight-game mix.

On the flip side, the larger winners through the seven-day period were Alex “PostflopAction” Kostritsyn ($672,669), Viktor “Isildur1” Blom ($391,581), Isaac “luvtheWNBA” Haxton ($346,595) and Dan “jungleman12” Cates ($273,034).

Cates recently broke the $10-million mark in lifetime Internet winnings, and he shows no signs of slowing down. It sort of feels like a question of time before the Maryland native passes Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey because the biggest winner within the history of online poker.

All figures via HighstakesDB.


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