Web High Stakes Poker- Who is Gus Hansen?
by Bo on Friday, February 12th, 2016
Gus Hansen enjoyed a wonderful year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only gambler to achieve final game in three of the tournaments. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he paid $400, 000 to play. You may recall one of the biggest pots in high stakes poker recorded history up against Daniel Negreanu. Hansen secured a large pot with quads against Negreanu’s full house. Hansen has made many televised poker appearances and is thought to be one of the greatest gamblers around the world. While betting on web poker, another side of Hansen has been seen. Gus often competes in the 200/400 No Limit maximum buy-in of $40, 000. Gus more often than not buys-in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and gambles very weak. He waits for a good hand and then goes all in. I accept that Gus is an excellent poker player but not even close to the everyday players at 200/400NL. Unless he is flat broke, he has no reason to play at the game with the minimum buy-in.
Playing for the minimum takes a majority of the expertise out of big stack poker. Hansen is assumed to be 1 of the best players in the world but he can’t buy-in for the full amt.. I believe tv can alter our view of the real world every now and then. The best poker players in the world might be players you have will not have heard of before. Gus can be found playing net poker on Full Tilt. He normally competes in big stakes omaha hold’em and hold’em. Gus has shown himself as a competition player. Can he back up his talents in money games?
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