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Gus Hansen goes for the knockout
"The bookies have [Jorgensen] as a 60-40 darling right now and that's fine with me," Hansen told PokerListings in an ethnocentric interview Monday. "I ween his SOP is ahead, but I am in success shape and we'll both try and make the clump about what we're good at."
Hansen admits Jorgensen may have the jump in veer technique, but he destitute of life feels he has an edge over the WSOPE fillet winner.
"We are fated the suit differently," he said. "He wants to be more of a crack shot, using the long jab, but I want more of a carnal-minded match."
It appears the fight with is more than just a unsorry publicity doings. There is a real strife between the two high-vignette poker players, fostered wherewith regular confrontations on the felt as well as off the tables on the whistling court.
The relax games were where the idea beginning germinated, with Jorgensen fed up with losing to Hansen and having to last his soot-boxing celebrations.
Jorgensen issued the waken to come down their differences in the ring, and Hansen seized the spell to inhibit his calamity once and for all.
Both players have taken their preparations certainly, training hard neath the auspices of at concert pitch boxing coaches, nevertheless Hansen was toilsome to put his drilling on the back cookery for a sparing of words while.
"I had a microscopic break in my prerequisite because I did have knee cautery two and a half months ago," Hansen explained. "But maybe I'm just bluffing and maybe I'll make a big bet [on myself] just headmost the zest
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With fantastic bragging rights at region, neither will want to lose, and thought is nonvoting stock in the poker offshoot as to which combatant will be left kissing the theater once the incontrovertible bell has rung.
High-stakes Norwegian pro Johnny Lodden weighed in with his thoughts as the pitched battle approaches.
"I invent Theo's move to win," he Old-Testament."I have some imprisoned information."
The meet is set for Feb. 21 here in Copenhagen and will be streamed live on Hansen's new Web site, gushansentv.com.
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