Web High Stakes Poker- Who is Gus Hansen?
Gus Hansen experienced a wonderful year on the WPT where he was the only participant to achieve last game in 3 of the events. Gus Hansen has been seen on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he bought into the game for $400, 000. You might recall one of the biggest pots in big stakes poker history competing against Daniel Negreanu. Gus raked in a big pot with 4 of a kind against Negreanu’s full house. Hansen has earned many tv poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the strongest enthusiasts around the world. While playing online poker, a different side of Hansen has been seen. Gus often participates in the 200/400 NL maximum buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen generally buys-in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and plays very poorly. He sits there waiting for a decent hand and then pushes all in. I believe Hansen is an amazing poker player but certainly not even close to the regular players at 200/400no limit. Unless he is flat broke, he has absolutely no reason to sit at the game with the min buy-in.
Playing for the minimum takes most of the ability out of big stack poker. Hansen is supposed to be 1 of the best poker players in the world but he cannot buy in for the total amount. I believe tv can skew our perception of the real world sometimes. The best poker players in the world might just be guys you have will not have heard about. Gus can be seen betting on net poker on Full Tilt. He normally plays in high stakes omaha high and texas holdem. Gus Hansen has shown himself as a tournament player. Can he use his skills in money rounds?
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