Internet High Stakes Poker- Gus Hansen
Gus Hansen enjoyed an amazing year on the WPT where he was the only participant to achieve last table in 3 of the events. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on GSN where he paid $400, 000 to play. You might remember one of the largest pots in big stakes poker history competing against Daniel Negreanu. Gus raked in a large pot with quads against Daniel’s full house. Gus has earned many televised poker appearances and is thought to be one of the strongest enthusiasts around the world. While playing online poker, a different side of Hansen has emerged. He regularly competes in the 200/400 NL max buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Gus frequently buys in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and plays very weak. He waits for a decent hand and then goes all in. I accept that Gus is a great poker player but not even close to the regular players at 200/400no limit. Unless he is broke, he has little or no reason to settle at the game with the minimum buy-in.
Buying in for the minimum takes almost all of the ability out of deep stack poker. Hansen is supposed to be one of the best players in the world but he can’t buy in for the full amount. I think tv can skew our view of the real world every now and then. The greatest poker players in the world might just be guys you have will not have heard about. Gus can be found participating in net poker on Full Tilt. He normally plays in high stakes omaha/8 and texas hold’em. Gus has proven himself as a tournament player. Can he use his abilities in cash rounds?
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