Gus Hansen gets chomped

Just as everyone expected, Gus Hansen has been throwing his weight around online again, winning the day’s largest pot (so far) against David Benyamine, while losing the second largest against trex313.

When Gus Hansen is on the table, you never really know what to expect. He’s hyper aggressive, ridiculously good and always, always, always good for some serious action. It’s this aggression that can fool opponents into paying Hansen off in situations where he should receive nothing, but it’s also this aggression that will allow his opponents to hit monstrous pots when they make the nuts themselves.

In this hand online high-stakes pro trex313 gets a little bit of good luck (not all that much, since he did have approximately 900 outs), and a nice large pot.

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Game: $500/$1,000 – Omaha Table: Hansen Knockout Players: Gus Hansen, trex313 Date: Jan 17,2009 4:00:22 ET Hand ID: 10087952685

Table Setup
Gus Hansen Seat 1 Stack Size: $109,093     Posts Small Blind of $500
trex313 Seat 2 Stack Size: $72,397 Posts Big Blind of $1,000

Preflop
Dealing Down Cards
Gus Hansen Calls $500
trex313 Checks

Flop 986
trex313 Bets $1,500
Gus Hansen Raises $6,500
trex313 Calls $5,000

Turn 986 [4]
trex313 Checks
Gus Hansen Bets $15,000
trex313 Raises $60,000
Gus Hansen Raises $86,593
trex313 Calls $4,897
Gus Hansen Shows 6387
trex313 Shows J8T2

River 9864 [7]
trex313 Wins $144,794

Hansen flopped the absolute nuts; unfortunately for him flopping the nuts in Omaha isn’t exactly a license to print money. Omaha is a game of re-draws, and Hansen has none. With a flush draw on the flop, and the four on the turn opening the possibility of a back door flush draw, Hansen decides to get all of his money in while he’s still ahead.

The money goes all in, Hansen with the nuts, trex313 with the open-ended straight draw, diamond flush draw; spade flush draw and middle pair. With all three of his draws live to win the pot, the 7 on the river gives him the flush, and a higher straight, either one is good enough to win the $144,000 pot.

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