no, Durrrr never plays a hand poorly.

Ahtata is back, 2-tabling plo40k right now. Wasn't this regarded as one of Guy's SN's? At least (s)he is from Canada.

In before Spenda explaining how his play is +ev.

He's not, it's just that he's an ass who's loose-passive, instead of a nice guy who's loose-aggressive, making him an easy target.

The fact of the matter is, nobody in the world has won more online and on the tournament circuit with the exception of Phil Ivey, and that deserves at least a little bit of recognition.

After a bad start in 2008, Gus took probably 5 months off away from the tables, returned in August 2008, and has been winning more than anyone ever since. That's while playing more hands and sessions than anybody else at those tables (At least 250k).

He's not as methodical as everyone else, and he's prone to make a lot more mistakes, but he's not some huge whale that everybody likes to pretend they're living off of.

well he has tons of backdoor draws

He also, at least in NL, is very willing to call stuff if he thinks he gets proper odds. That's why he makes a lot of calls that look odd. He simply thinks he gets ok value doing so. Then again, I guess some would argue that he prices himself into a lot of things by playing too many hands too far.

But he is very mathematically grounded.

Full Tilt Poker Game #10375937872: Table bmwnick1 (6 max) - $200/$400 - Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 13:40:12 ET - 2009/02/01
Seat 1: trex313 ($8,000), is sitting out
Seat 2: JohnnyPav ($45,793)
Seat 5: howisitfeellike ($22,204.50)
Seat 6: Dustin Dirksen ($19,182)
JohnnyPav posts the small blind of $200
howisitfeellike posts the big blind of $400
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dustin Dirksen raises to $1,200
JohnnyPav has 15 seconds left to act
JohnnyPav raises to $4,000
howisitfeellike folds
Dustin Dirksen calls $2,800
*** FLOP *** [Qh 9s Jc]
JohnnyPav has 15 seconds left to act
JohnnyPav has requested TIME
JohnnyPav bets $4,000
Dustin Dirksen has 15 seconds left to act
Dustin Dirksen calls $4,000
*** TURN *** [Qh 9s Jc] [5d]
JohnnyPav has 15 seconds left to act
JohnnyPav checks
Dustin Dirksen bets $11,182, and is all in
JohnnyPav calls $11,182
Dustin Dirksen shows [Kh Ac 5c Qd]
JohnnyPav shows [Ah Ts 4s Kd]
*** RIVER *** [Qh 9s Jc 5d] [5s]
Dustin Dirksen shows a full house, Fives full of Queens
JohnnyPav shows a straight, King high
Dustin Dirksen wins the pot ($38,763) with a full house, Fives full of Queens
Dustin Dirksen adds $1,237
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $38,764 | Rake $1
Board: [Qh 9s Jc 5d 5s]
Seat 1: trex313 is sitting out
Seat 2: JohnnyPav (small blind) showed [Ah Ts 4s Kd] and lost with a straight, King high
Seat 5: howisitfeellike (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 6: Dustin Dirksen (button) showed [Kh Ac 5c Qd] and won ($38,763) with a full house, Fives full of Queens

insta left the table after that

Full Tilt Poker Game #10375941980: Table Pantheon (6 max) - $200/$400 - Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 13:40:27 ET - 2009/02/01
Seat 1: howisitfeellike ($12,396)
Seat 4: drphil_jr ($27,575)
Seat 6: Dustin Dirksen ($7,600)
Dustin Dirksen posts the small blind of $200
howisitfeellike posts the big blind of $400
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
drphil_jr raises to $1,000
Dustin Dirksen calls $800
howisitfeellike folds
*** FLOP *** [6s 8h 3h]
Dustin Dirksen bets $2,400
drphil_jr raises to $9,600
Dustin Dirksen has 15 seconds left to act
Dustin Dirksen calls $4,200, and is all in
drphil_jr shows [Qd 6h Kd 8d]
Dustin Dirksen shows [As 4h Qh 7s]
Uncalled bet of $3,000 returned to drphil_jr
*** TURN *** [6s 8h 3h] [Kh]
*** RIVER *** [6s 8h 3h Kh] [2d]
drphil_jr shows two pair, Kings and Eights
Dustin Dirksen shows a flush, King high
Dustin Dirksen wins the pot ($15,599) with a flush, King high
Dustin Dirksen adds $8,000
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $15,600 | Rake $1
Board: [6s 8h 3h Kh 2d]
Seat 1: howisitfeellike (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 4: drphil_jr (button) showed [Qd 6h Kd 8d] and lost with two pair, Kings and Eights
Seat 6: Dustin Dirksen (small blind) showed [As 4h Qh 7s] and won ($15,599) with a flush, King high

also insta left after that

The biggest difference I've noticed between him and everyone else is that he doesn't put as much value in position (especially in hold'em), which puts him in a lot of bad spots, but somehow he's made it work over the long-run.

Who is this dr phil guy?

Was watching him yesterday and he was playing very passive post flop.Was giving huge pots away after calling preflop raises left and right.

trambopoline or something on 2p2, posts in HSNL and I'm sure will reply here to confirm it.

I think it's Trambopoline(?) May be wrong tho.

Word, and yes I was playing passively yesterday but I had a few others sweating me and agreed with the hands I was caling with preflop and also with mooost of my postflop decisions. Pretty much was just running real cold though missing every board in every RR pot : /

how come you folded the king-high flush? Were the two villans ultra-nitty or something?

No I had just been playing that table for about 5 hours straight with him, was very in touch with everyones game by the end of the session. I have some reasons id rather not go into now though

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Durrrrs gonna get raped so bad by this challenge

Okay, list players that have won more.

Gus has won $7,297,559 live (tournaments) and 5 million online (that's been documented). $1.4 million from 2007-01-01 to 2009-01-31, and $3.5 million that isn't recorded in the database.

That comes out to about $12.25 million dollars combined.

Now on the all-time money list, do you want to find me one player other than Phil Ivey that that can equal or surpass that sum if you include their internet winnings? Keeping in mind that none of the players ahead of him are listed as winners on HSD's top 50 from Jan 2007 to now.

(I realize there's a major "but how much did he lose?" factor in play here, but I'm working with what's been documented, obv.)

According to HSD, Gus has won $3.904.480,56 from 2008-06-01 to 2009-01-31, putting him behind Phil Ivey, Phil Galfond, and Patrik Antonius.

Again, if you include the the $3.5 million that wasn't recorded in the database he's made $7.4 million from August until now, putting him ahead of the other 3 rather easily.

Garbs-1 Transa-0

I thought Gus was a loser at high stakes NLHE but crushed Omaha 8 or something like that?

EDIT: Nevermind he lost money playing O8 in 2008 according to HSDB.

One interesting thing is that HSDB has Gus as an overall loser for both 2007 and 2008 (about -800k in 07 and -1 mill in 08) but he's up almost 3 million just this year so far which puts him up from 2007-2009 total. So clearly he's a wildly swingy player and that +1.4 million from 2007-present could be gone in a week or so, who even knows. Just pointing that out.

why every pro still want to play vs Gus (I mean why every talbes are full when Gus join) if he wins that much money

Anyone know how durrrr has a 429k and a 308k stack on Gus' tables?

How much is Gus' money?

just because someone wins money does not mean it is not a good game. also, when gus plays he makes a lot of people do uncharacteristic things and get out of their comfort level and some of the nosebleed pros feel like this is a good thing.

Do we know who some of the other names are?

Such as Liberty 6, Rafiboy, etc

LIBERTY6 is straate, rafiboy is Rafi Amit?