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Gus Hansen Loses $29,020 in one online hand!

I was bored today and decided to log on to Full Tilt Poker and check out the action. I saw that Gus Hanson was sitting at a $200/400 no limit table and I thought it could be pretty entertaining to watch for a bit. Well one of the first hands I saw was a hand where Gus Hansen and Dustin Dirksen (random poker player?) went all-in. The hand started out with Gus Hansen raising to $1,400 and Dustin Dirksen in the big blind calling $1000. The flop comes down (5s Js 2s), Dirksen checks and Gus Hansen bets $2,000. Dirksen then raises to $8,999 which then gets Gus Hansen to push his entire stack in the pot raising by $27,620. A quick call by Dirksen…and then they both show their hands, Gus Hanson is holding (Ks Qd) against Dirksen’s (Jc Ah). The turn comes a 5h and the river comes 4h. Hansen with a flush draw doesn’t hit and he loses $29,020. There was lots of chatter in the full tilt chat window as people were stunned that Hansen called on a draw….what would have you done?