De Deen Gus Hansen won en verloor in Macau gigantische potten in de highstakes cashgames. In zijn recente blogupdates vertelt Hansen over een verloren pot van $1.9 miljoen. Gelukkig voor ‘The Great Dane’ wist hij er ook één binnen te harken van zo’n $1.7 miljoen.
Hansen is niet vies van wat fysieke uitdaging en zet in Macau marathonsessie na marathonsessie aan de cashgametafels neer. Afgelopen weekend verloor Hansen een pot van $1.9 miljoen. Hansen vertelt in zijn blog (de bedragen zijn in HKD):
“With blinds of 10K-20K I encouraged “Under the Gun” to make a straddle for 40K and then I would make it 80K. The ensuing action looked good for me for just about 17 seconds — 3 blinds up against each other with just over 1 Million HK$ in the pot preflop and I am holding the pretty 
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and with the small blind checking and the 40K straddler betting 550K I felt my best play was to go all-in for 5.3Mill.
“I do not regret my all-in move, but when the small blind cold-calls 3.7Mill and the bettor is counting his outs and figuring out his pot-odds, I have a BAD feeling of what’s in store for me — A set and the nut-flush draw! And indeed it was, I am down to runner-runner straight or runner-runner full house — not a great spot to be in.”
De enorme pot ging verloren, maar al snel volgde er een nieuwe blogupdate met goed nieuws:
“When you put your opponent on either a set or a flush-draw and the board pairs on the river AND completes the flush, is it good to call a 4.2mill bet? Once again the answer is probably not! The bad news is I paid 4.2Mill to find out – The good news is my opponent was bluffing and I dragged in a 13.5Mill pot at the end of the session.”
