Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008

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Pennies from GusHeaven; FTP adds new table

Think Gus is overrated? Save your pennies and step to GusHeaven.

By Christopher Hunt

He's the big-name TV pro all the young guns on the poker forums love to hate.

They hate on his game, they hate on his career and they've been known to suggest his "aggressive" style is simply terrible poker.

Gus Hansen's career earnings ($5.9 million in tournament cashes; who knows how much in cash game profit), of course, say otherwise.

Well, now's the time for the haters to step up and prove something with the introduction of the new six-max $500/$1,000 No-Limit Hold'em "GusHeaven" table at Full Tilt Poker, with a seat reserved at all times for the Great Dane.

FTP clearly knows a hit when it sees one, as its first foray into six-max $500/$1,000 NLHE - "RailHeaven" - has been off the hook with action over the last couple of months.

Pots have been bigger than ever, railbird chatter has been through the roof, and the game's biggest names - Phil Ivey, David Benyamine, Tom "durrrr" Dwan, Patrik Antonius (who now has a reserved seat at RailHeaven also) - have made it an almost-daily ritual to drop in and toss a few hundred thousand dollars around.

So two tables it is now, with the best part being there's plenty of room for the two reserved-seaters to share the action.

Such was the case early this morning, as Gus was nowhere to be seen and GusHeaven turned into a heads-up haven for Dwan and Benyamine, with the end result of those two getting together being the biggest pot online so far today.

Watch the big pot in the PL.com Hand Replayer here or see the text version below, as tracked by the PL.com MarketPulse software.

Game: 8509850549 Table: GusHeaven (six-max) $500/$1,000 - No-Limit Hold'em Thu Oct 16 2008 - 1:57am ET

Table Setup

Seat 4 durrrr ($100,196)
Seat 5 David Benyamine ($299,754)
David Benyamine posts the small blind of $500
durrrr posts the big blind of $1,000
The button is in seat #5

Pre-Flop

David Benyamine raises to $3,000
durrrr calls $2,000

Flop: [7 T 7]

durrrr checks
David Benyamine bets $3,000
durrrr has 15 seconds left to act
durrrr raises to $11,200
David Benyamine calls $8,200

Turn [7 T 7][6]

durrrr has 15 seconds left to act
durrrr bets $17,600
David Benyamine has 15 seconds left to act
David Benyamine calls $17,600

River: [7 T 7 6][9]

durrrr has 15 seconds left to act
durrrr bets $68,396, and is all-in
David Benyamine calls $68,396

Showdown

durrrr shows [Q 9] two pair, nines and sevens
David Benyamine shows [J T] a flush, jack-high
David Benyamine wins the pot ($200,391.50) with a flush, jack-high
durrrr adds $50,000

Summary

Total pot $200,392 | Rake $0.50
Board: [7 T 7 6 9]
Seat 4 durrrr (big blind) showed [Q 9] and lost with two pair, nines and sevens
Seat 5 David Benyamine (small blind) showed [J T] and won ($200,391.50) with a flush, jack-high

He lost this pot, but durrrr's month of October has been more than a success overall according to PL.com's Top 100 moneymakers list, which shows him at $1,474,282 in Hold'em profit so far this month.

See the full online Hold'em moneymakers list here, or more of the 100 biggest pots so far this week, month and year here.

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