Web Big Stakes Poker- Who is Gus Hansen?
Posted in Poker on 08/12/2019 01:25 pm by Marley
Gus Hansen had an amazing year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only gambler to make it to the closing poker table in 3 of the competitions. Gus Hansen has been seen on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he paid $400, 000 to play. You may recall one of the largest pots in high stakes poker history up against Daniel Negreanu. Gus won a big pot with quads against Negreanu’s full house. Gus has made many tv poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the strongest gamblers around the world. While wagering on internet poker, a different side of Hansen has appeared. He regularly participates in the 200/400 NL max buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen frequently buys-in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and plays very weak. He waits for a good hand and then goes all in. I believe Hansen is an amazing poker player but certainly not even close to the regular players at 200/400NL. Unless he is bankrupt, he has absolutely no reason to play at the game with the min buy-in.
Playing for the min takes almost all of the expertise out of deep stack poker. Hansen is assumed to be one of the greatest poker players anywhere in the world but he cannot buy in for the total amt.. I think tv can alter our view of the real world sometimes. The best poker players in the world might just be players you have will not have heard of. Gus can be seen participating in web poker on Full Tilt. He generally competes in high stakes omaha/8 and hold’em. Gus Hansen has proven himself as a competition player. Can he back up his abilities in money games?