Janet de Botton

Bridge | 18 September 2014

issue 20 September 2014

Many top bridge players are also keen poker fans, and when a poker star infiltrates their backyard there is a definite ripple of excitement. So it was at the hugely prestigious Euro Cavendish, held last week in Monaco, when Poker Champion Gus (the Great Dane) Hansen turned up to play. No one was more excited than my teammate Nick Sandqvist, who sat down to play him and asked for his autograph! ‘It’s for a boy I know at home,’ he explained unconvincingly. Gus, of course, obliged and they got down to play. Unfortunately, Gus was now in poker mode, and decided to bluff. He psyched a spade overcall with two, got raised to game by his partner who held King to five, got doubled, ran to his five card diamond suit at the five level, got doubled again and went for 1,400!

The event was won by the Polish superstars Krzysztof Buras and Grzegorz Narkiewicz.

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