Online High Stakes Poker- Who is Gus Hansen?
Gus Hansen had a wonderful year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only participant to achieve closing poker table in three of the events. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on GSN where he paid $400, 000 to play. You may remember one of the largest pots in high stakes poker recorded history competing against Daniel Negreanu. Gus secured a huge pot with quads against Daniel’s full house. Gus has made many tv poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the strongest enthusiasts around the world. While participating in online poker, another side of Hansen has appeared. He frequently competes in the 200/400 No Limit maximum buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen usually buys in for the minimum of $16, 000 and gambles very weak. He sits there waiting for a good hand and then pushes all in. I accept that Hansen is an excellent poker player but certainly not even close to the regular players at 200/400no limit. Unless Gus is flat broke, he has little or no reason to sit at the table with the min buy-in.
Playing for the min takes most of the ability out of big stack poker. Hansen is assumed to be 1 of the best poker players in the world but he cannot buy-in for the full dollar value. I think tv can alter our view of the real world every now and then. The greatest players anywhere in the world might be guys you have will not have heard of before. Gus can be seen playing web poker on Full Tilt. He usually competes in big stakes omaha hi-low and hold’em. Gus Hansen has proven himself as a tournament player. Can he back up his abilities in money games?
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