Silly Question: Gus Hansen vs. Stu Ungar

Gus Hansen's closer to Greg Raymer than to Stu Ungar. They're good mathematical callers. Stu Ungar was primarily a mind reader.

[thejameser]

The greatness of what Stu Ungar was will never be fully understood by today's players and comparing him to Gus Hansen is an insult to Ungar IMO.

[Sincere]

Ungar and its not even close

[4_2_it]

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I haven't logged over 5K hands with either of them, so I'm not at liberty to offer an opinion.

I'm sure you can find a 2+2er that has logged over 5K hands with each. Ask them.

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5k is too small a sample size. I will entertain a hypothesis from someone with 100K hands and a theory from someone with 500K.

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You don't need to play 5k hands against someone to decipher if one is a good player.

Sometimes just in talking with them you can find out where they are thought process-wise.

Hansen a modern day Ungar? Doubt it.

Deeb looked like a big friggin' baby when he made those comments.

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Sorry you missed my apparently not-so-obvious sarcasm (I thought the 500k hands comment gave it way). Next time I'll use one of these: [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

Personally I hope that we never see another Stu Unger. I am not speaking in terms of poker ability, but in terms of final outcome in life.

I read somwhere on onlineshark.com
that hansen is not doing so good in the big game.
there were rumors he is going broke.

[Dan Mezick]

I'd like to have seen Rain Man play Stu Ungar, that would be cool.

Definitely. definitely.

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I'd like to have seen Rain Man play Stu Ungar, that would be cool.

Definitely. definitely.

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But what happens when it's "10 minutes till Wapner"?