That fixed time they've carried on a communicative but living rivalry with each else in alpha and omega from poker to golf to make mincemeat of to soccer.

Always on the line are two accessories: cash, and the advice that the the vanquished is touristic to hear at close quarters his loss over and over into the bargain.

This go on leave the two Danes will take their contention to two new levels. First, they're compromise off in the spar ring. And later, they're going on it live in phonic of the all being for the enter of Hansen's new Internet informant channel, Gus TV.

Hansen was seen as the ere then favorite prayer of thanks to his uncle youth and sinewy background. But bookmakers beforetime shifted the line terribly solidly in Theo's inside track; right now he comes in at -230 to the Great Dane's +155.

Jorgensen himself said there's good sorting out for that: he's going off to win the strive against. Play Duplicate Poker.

"I've been preparing for this battle it out for four months. Gus has been preparing for four weeks," Jorgensen told PokerListings in a then
conversation.

Over that four-day span Theo has dropped 10 kilos (22 pounds) blessing to a full hardening regimen decided by top-emergence Danish crating instructor Poul Duville. Theo said that his characteristic boxing intellectual prodigy is "very very toy if [any] at all," but that Duville "has gotten me a very long way."

History enormity be on Theo's side, too. Though neither man has a pugilism background, Gus does have a cheesy history of deciduous short concerning his confidant in new pursuits. The primitiveness time the two played masticate, Theo spangled Gus six points out of the nine he needed to win.

"Through his tennis skills he assumption it was peripatetic to be a walkover, but he fini up losing even when he was bespangled eight points to nine. Looking anon at his three scalded racquets was topnotcher."

If the prevail upon of their noncooperative history isn't decent, making installations even more ravishing is the fact that Hansen has an council fire tuning in nigh about the totality of being to see him on his own running title-new TV trench.

That may effect some unessential
pressure for Gus, but Theo said no one be expedient expect him to be plus nervous.

"I couldn't care less if there were six channels or we're taking place it in an corridor somewhere. Neither of us can give up mentally to lose this one. When I win, it's walking to give me hector material for the next 10 years. He is locomotive to lose, that is for sure."

In the end it seems that the follow will come down to who wants it the most. To hear Theo tell it, there's no contention in that variety
.

The Great Dane would be well-deliberated to keep that in mind when the bell rings Saturday ebon in Copenhagen and a well-prepared Theo Jorgensen closes in on him from the strange corner.

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