It's official, Gus Hansen is champion of the heads-up High Stakes tournament in which he participated in London. To do this, he had to win 7 consecutive heads-up and beat Jim Collopy in the heads-up finale.
Things have yet not well started for Hansen when he lost half of his chips by starting from the first minutes of play.
Recall that for this victory, Hansen earned a gold bracelet and a grant of 288,409 books. Hansen, long regarded as the best player who never won a bracelet at the WSOP, dishes so the hands on the prestigious bracelet for the first time in his career.
This tournament has attracted 103 participant and its cost of entry was 10,350 pounds.
Here is the final list of Fellows:
WSOP Europe 2010 - £10,350 High Roller HU Championship
1 gus Hansen (Denmark) - £288.409
2 Jim Collopy (USA) - £178.211
3 ram Vaswani (UK) - £96.212
4 Andrew Feldman (UK) - £96.212
5 Daniel Negreanu (Canada) - £47.045
6 Kevin Eyster (USA) - £47.045
7 Huck Seed (USA) - £47.045
8 Neil Channing (UK) - £47.045
9 Howard Lederer (USA) - £22.847
10 Martin Kabrhel (Czech Republic) - £22.847
11 Mc Lean Karr (USA) - £22.847
12 Saar Wilf (Israel) - £22.847
13 Andrew Robl (USA) - £22.847
14 Phil Ivey (USA) - £22.847
15 Marius Tobergsen (Norway) - £22.847
16 Sondre Svanevik (Norway) - £22.847
To see the last hand played by Hansen:
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