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Gus Hansen, the Danish Full Tilt Poker pro has been on a sensational heater this year, he started April's grind with $4 million profit, but now he seems to be losing, he already lost $1 million this month.

Gus Hansen

The Hansen fans again have something to worry about. The 'Great Dane' has been playing really well at the tables in the first months of 2009 and 2010, but soon he came to be one of the biggest losers. On March 1, 2009 he already turned a $2,334,788 profit, but he closed the year as the biggest fish of the year, with $5,575,624 lost. In 2010, he earned $2,028,229 until March 1, but he ended the year in a $1,601,767 minus. He was the fourth biggest loser that year (these numbers do not include the draw poker results, since HSDB didn't monitor those at that time).

He kicked off 2011 with his best online high stakes start ever, he was number one on the monthly high-stakes leaderboard in January and February, and second in March. He started April with $4,097,298 profit. The last 7 days, however, were not his best this year; he lost a total of $976,934, which makes him the biggest loser this month. His losses are mostly in PLO (-$690,414) but he took a hit in draw games as well (-$286,520).

Finally, WSOP came up with a great new idea for a TV show. Have you ever imagined what a WSOP Main Event Final Heads-Up rematch would look like? Sam Farha having a chance to get back at Moneymaker? Well now you can watch it.

Harrah's revealed recently that they plan to recreate some of the most imporant and fierce heads-up battles in WSOP history at the World Series of Poker 2011. The event will take place on Thursday, June 2 at the Rio on the ESPN set in the Amazon Room.

3 Matchups are planned so far. In the first, Chris Moneymaker and Sammy Farha will recreate the 2003 WSOP Main Event final table in a "best out of three" format. In game one, they will have the exact same chip counts as in 2003, in the second, reversed, and in the third game, even stacks.

I just found this interview with Daniel Cates, and thought you would be interested. The 21 year old American pro talks about his recent accomplishments at the PCA, his future plans getting involved in the live games, and much more. Enjoy, and have a nice weekend!

In this video, you can get insight into the everyday life of high stakes poker players; how they go through huge downswings almost daily, how their family reacts to their 'occupation' and what it is like to make a living out of poker.

Andrew "Good2cu" Robl, Peter "Apathy" Jetten, Di "Urindanger", Hac "Trex313" Dang, Thuy "Shesnogood" Doan, Martin "DrGiggy" Fournier Giguère, Alec "Traheho" Torelli, Ike "luvthewnba" Haxton, Shaun "tedsfishfry" Deeb, EmpireMaker2 are all featured in this video.

Enjoy!

Rakerace.com has now joined forces with PokerStars to organize an exclusive poker freeroll with the following details:

Tournament name: Rakerace Facebook Freeroll
Date: April 2nd, 2011
Time: 21:00 CET (15:00 ET)
Prize pool: $100

The tournament is password protected. The password will be sent out to Rakerace.com's Facebook fans before the start of the tournament, so do not miss to join Rakerace.com's fan page!

 
The Rakerace Facebook Freeroll couldn’t be easier to find in the PokerStars lobby. Simply select ‘Tourney’ then the ‘Private’ tab to find it. The tourney is already listed in the client.

There has been an interesting conversation going on between Jose ‘Girah’ Macedo and Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan on Twitter. It would seem that the 18-year-old prodigy is to take on the challenge.

As I wrote earlier, 18 years old José ‘Girah’ Macedo is now a millionaire, thanks to his skills at poker; he got to the nosebleed stakes unbelievably fast, making his money from as little as a €30 deposit. He, usually referred to simply as the "Portuguese Poker Prodigy,” seems to feel it is time for him to face his hero, Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan.

Phil Ivey is tweeting again. He used to have a Twitter account since April, 2009, but he hasn't used it much. Now he posted that he's starting to use the service once again. He also posted some proof of his identity. Phil Ivey, many say the best poker player in the world today has not been very chatty on his twitter account, he posted on July 2010, which was followed by silence, up until February, 2011, when he posted: "I'm starting to tweet again. Stay tuned!"

He also posted a picture of him playing and watching TV in his living room saying:

As it appears, he is up to something big very soon; he tweeted: "After NBC Heads Up, I've been working hard on my latest endeavor with many of my top poker friends." We are not sure what he meant by that, but the fact that he just launched philivey.com can be somehow related to this tweet. The website only says "Coming Soon" yet, and the headline: "Now I'm going to teach the whole world to win at poker."

There's a new gun in town. The portuguese wonder kid, Jose Macedo, who turned €30 into millions has now stepped out of the darkness and talked to Bret Oliverio and Eric Bickel about his carreer on PokerStatic.com.

The 18-year-old Portuguese kid, Jose Macedo started playing poker in the Summer of 2009. From the play money tables he rocketed to the NL1000 limits in just 1,5 year. His dream was to buy a house in Hawaii, which he recently did. At first his identity wasn't known to the public, he was talked about on forums as the "Portuguese poker prodigy". On March 2 this year, he revealed himself as Jose Macedo, or 'Girah', his nick at some poker forums. However, his nick at the tables and the rooms at which he plays are not public.

For more, watch the interview below, in which he talks about everything: how he started to play poker, how he taught himself to play better, how he managed to buy the house of his dreams in Hawaii, and his future plans with poker. Fascinating interview, highly recommended!

High stakes pro Andrew ’good2cu’ Robl has latelya offered a cage fight challenge on his blog, scheduled during this year’s WSOP in Las Vegas. Hungarian poker pro ’d0npelo’ answers the call.

As I already reported, Andrew ‘good2cu’ Robl wrote in his latest blog entry that he had planned to challenge Sorel Mizzi for a cage fight during the WSOP, as a $50,000 prop bet. The Canadian turned the offer down eventually, but Robl did not give up: “If any beginning fighter wants to make a wager on a fight - let me know," he offered.

The pro trains at Sergio Penha's in Las Vegas, 3 or 4 times a week according to his account. Penha is the trainer of several well known MMA fighters, including Stephan Bonnar, Steve Cantwell and Anthony Njokuani. The news of his beginner trainee’s challenge circulated around the industry lightning fast and here already comes a guy from Hungary, ready to accept it.

Read this interview from Rakerace.com with ‘d0npelo’ below.

D0npelo

If you happen to a beginner MMA fighter and might want to beat Andrew Robl, and not in the poker sense, you might be in luck this time. The young pro blogged that he has been practicing "Jiu Justi" for some time and he takes challengers to fight him in a cage fight.

Andrew Robl is much better known for his cash game and live tournament result than his muscles, however, he looked much more buffed up in the newest episode of High Stakes Poker than before. In his most recent blog post entitled "The Easy Life", after mocking Sorel Mizzi a little, he offered a beginner MMA fighter the chance the fight him in the cage:

"I’ve been training MMA (mostly jiu justi) 3-4X times a week. I train at Sergio Penha's, and I recommend it to anyone who wants to train Jiu Justi in Vegas. Sergio is the Man! It’s humbling to be a beginner at something - and humility is something I’ve been trying to gain more of. The coolest thing is though is seeing the slow improvement everyday. I think learning new skills and constantly improving yourself is the key to happiness in life.

I was planning on doing a $50,000 cage fight with Sorel Mizzi come WSOP time - but Sorel backed out of the bet. He’s had enough problems recently without having to worry about my fists breaking his face. Sorel has always been a great guy in my experience - and I certainly hope the rumors about him aren’t true. If they are he made a huge mistake - and I only hope he makes amens and learns from the experience. If any beginning fighter wants to make a wager on a fight - let me know!" - Robl wrote.

In case you missed it, the most recent poker movie is about to be released on DVD. It has won numerous film festivals all over the United States, and was considered a huge success. If you haven't been able to see it yet, you can buy it from April 15 on DVD.

The picture is about an annual illegal poker championship in Scott County, Indiana. The film, which is a 'mockumentary' features various characters including an Amish farmer, a rude redneck, a preacher, a priest, a waitress, all contending for the first prize of the poker tournament.

Joe Boyd, director and star of the film stated: "We made a ridiculous movie on purpose. The poker community has been burnt by a series of unpopular, terrible movies over the last five years. I think people like this movie so much because it takes nothing seriously. It’s a complete silly farce. It’s like the movie Airplane…if Airplane was a fake documentary about poker."

The third part of the 7th season of High Stakes Poker has now been posted to YouTube by GSN; so there you have it, you I'm making your lives easier, you can watch it here. The new episode, though definitely not as good as the previous seasons, is packed with interesting hands again; Phil Ruffin, the owner of the Treasure Island is on a huge heat, even so that he eliminates one player. But who is that and how it happened? You will have to see for yourself.

I saw many insanely funny videos, sick hands and weird players, but this, I cannot get in terms with. This is something out of this world. Something unreal. Something that is only possible in Spain maybe? Enjoy, and if you have any idea what the hell the two guys must have been thinking on the river, tell me.

In this very interesting documentary with Randy 'nanonoko' Lew, one of the best online players today, he talks about  about how he started playing poker, how his video gaming helped him one of the top pros, and about his work ethic. It's quite an interesting piece, highly recommended.

Episode 2 of HSP7 has just aired and it is already available online, too. I saw in the comments that people complain about the new host Norm MacDonald; I agree he is somewhat monotonous. Still, action is pretty wild: in addition to a $108,000 and a $219,000 pot, the 43 minutes show also features an insane clash for more than $590,000. But I’m not going to spoil it for you, check it out instead.