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[Neilis]

Full Tilt Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $100/$200
4 players
Converter

Stack sizes:
UTG: $40828.10
Unsuspecting Victim: $87030.20
SB: $38501
Gus Hansen: $10592

Pre-flop: (4 players)
UTG calls, Unsuspecting Victim calls, SB calls, Gus Hansen checks.

Flop: ($800, 4 players)
SB checks, Gus Hansen checks, UTG bets $800, Unsuspecting Victim calls, SB folds, Gus Hansen calls.

Turn: ($3200, 3 players)
Gus Hansen checks, UTG bets $1800, Unsuspecting Victim calls, Gus Hansen raises to $6800, UTG folds, Unsuspecting Victim raises to $13600, Gus Hansen calls all-in $2792.
Uncalled bets: $4008 returned to Unsuspecting Victim.

River: ($24184, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: $24184)



Results:
Final pot: $24184
Unsuspecting Victim showed 2s 5s
Gus Hansen showed 5d 3s

[Joey2Cardz]

Gus plays like that friend you have who you sometimes talk into playing a game with your normal poker circle. You know he can't play, but you think he might pick it up after a while. He wins the game. He thinks he is better than you. He leaves you wondering whether he might be right. He always calls on a draw and he always gets the draw. He should write a book called How To Get Lucky in Texas Holdem. Everyone would read it, thinking 'I reckon I could learn how to get lucky in texas holdem.'

Gus Hansen is more of an advertisement for poker than Chris Moneymaker. I feel bad for Mike Matusow.

[nsidestrate]

People often think that, but I suspect that Gus is one of the smartest math guys in poker.

[Joey2Cardz]

Well, he must be. He has an extraordinary way of playing that is so similar to a beginner, its unbelievable. I mean how much stick does the guy get from the rest of the Superstar field? Surely, they - more than anyone - would be able to figure out his method but they seem as perplexed as we are! Johnny Chan is the only person I have seen keep up with the guy when he's at full steam. Ah man, he annoys the hell outta me!

[nsidestrate]

He comes from a professional backgammon background and almost all of those guys are very math oriented.