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Saturday, September 29, 2007
Posted by Captain Flymo on 8:09 pm with No comments
In yet another flimsy attempt to disguise the fact I haven't been arsed to think of something to write for a while, here's another video. Some people may not know from where the blog got it's name. Well, ace queen is my cursed hand at poker: I can't win with it and I can't win against it. The point is, I'm partial to the odd hand of poker either for fun or for a few quid. Mind you, I have never played a game for more than about 20 quid because I'm canny enough to know that even though I'm not a bad player, there's always a bloody good chance of losing your wedge. All of which makes this video even more amazing.
The two pros playing this hand, Gus Hansen and Daniel Negreanu, are very well known on the top poker circuits and are often featured on televised games, and both of them have won a lot of money at the tables. Negreanu is normally very ebullient at the table and even a bit gobby (all part of the act to try and put off opponents) whereas Hansen is always very taciturn, so it's telling that Negreanu is very quiet during this hand. And with good reason: More than half a million dollars in cold hard cash change places on the table in the course of the hand, and it went in Hansen's favour. I won't bore you with the details of odds and so on - just gulp slightly and feel the pain as Negreanu gets suckered right in to every poker players ultimate nightmare: The hand you simply can't lay down.
The two pros playing this hand, Gus Hansen and Daniel Negreanu, are very well known on the top poker circuits and are often featured on televised games, and both of them have won a lot of money at the tables. Negreanu is normally very ebullient at the table and even a bit gobby (all part of the act to try and put off opponents) whereas Hansen is always very taciturn, so it's telling that Negreanu is very quiet during this hand. And with good reason: More than half a million dollars in cold hard cash change places on the table in the course of the hand, and it went in Hansen's favour. I won't bore you with the details of odds and so on - just gulp slightly and feel the pain as Negreanu gets suckered right in to every poker players ultimate nightmare: The hand you simply can't lay down.
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