Net Big Stakes Poker- Gus Hansen
Posted in Poker on 10/29/2017 04:25 pm by Marley
Gus Hansen experienced a wonderful year on the WPT where he was the only one to achieve last game in 3 of the tournaments. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on GSN where he paid $400, 000 to play. You may recall one of the largest pots in high stakes poker history competing against Daniel Negreanu. Gus secured a huge pot with quads against Negreanu’s full house. Gus has earned many tv poker appearances and is considered to be one of the best gamblers anywhere in the world. While betting on online poker, another side of Hansen has appeared. Gus regularly plays in the 200/400 No Limit max buy in of $40, 000. Hansen more often than not buys-in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and gambles very weak. He sits there waiting for a decent hand and then pushes all-in. I know Hansen is an amazing poker player but not even close to the familiar players at 200/400NL. Unless he is flat broke, he has no reason to settle at the game with the min buy-in.
Buying in for the minimum takes almost all of the skill out of big stack poker. Gus is assumed to be one of the greatest poker players in the world but he can’t buy-in for the full dollar value. I think television can skew our perception of the real world at times. The best players in the world might be guys you have won’t have heard about. Gus can be seen betting on net poker on Full Tilt. He normally plays in high stakes Omaha and texas hold’em. Gus Hansen has proven himself as a competition player. Can he use his skills in cash games?