The danish poker pro Gus Hansen has been running extremely bad in the past couple of years. In the beginning of this year, however, he started off in the best possible way by winning a few hundred thousands and it almost seemed like he was going on a winning streak and would take back some of the money he lost.
But it didn't take long before he started losing huge amounts again. And now it almost[...] Read more » Gus Hansen lost all his money - asked Cole South for a loan
Joined: May '08
Location: Germany
Age: 59 (M)
Posts: 6786
Wow. Allways noticed that he is on the losers list a lot of the time, but didn't thought it would be such a disaster. Nearly 8.5 million is a lot of money.
Joined: Oct '09
Location: Lithuania
Age: 43 (M)
Posts: 2805
there was his head ? think his head and brains sleeping and he playing alone with his dumb idea so he loose becouse cant stop and say no more poker in this week if ihave the pot like him i never loose it becouse i can stop me every time then just loose some small money pot
I think he needs to stop playing online poker, or TOTALLY change his game... or even better stick to playing live where he is one of the greatest players of the era; he's just making himself look bad by continuing like this...
Joined: Mar '08
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 44 (M)
Posts: 6714
Guy Laliberté is diffrent to Gus as he does not claim to be a PRO player like Gus, Gus should just swollow his pride admitt he is just not on top of his game anymore and drop stakes. As for his income, I belive he makes a fair old bit from rakeback, then there is FT, books, lives tax free and with over 7.5 mill in Live tourn games then you have the sites he ownd sold for 15 mill plus im sure he has money comin in for outher ventures I dont think he is going bust any time soon but do think he should go back to backgammon
Joined: May '09
Location: Netherlands
Age: 34 (M)
Posts: 360
I once won $40 with $1 buyin and was like the happiest kid on earth for one day. This guy needs therapy when you don't know the value of money anymore. Some people are forced to work all day long for a monthly ammount that he uses as ante.
Joined: May '08
Location: Sweden
Age: 55 (M)
Posts: 1362
For some reason my 70 $ loss last weekend does not fell that bad anymore...
I don't even understand why anybody would play highstakes poker if he/she has got that much money? You probably don't need that much more, and if you wan't to play just for playings sake, you can risk a lot less on somewhat smaller stakes.
