Web Big Stakes Poker- Gus Hansen
Gus Hansen experienced an amazing year on the WPT where he was the only participant to achieve last game 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 might recall one of the biggest pots in big stakes poker recorded history competing against Daniel Negreanu. He raked in a huge pot with 4 of a kind against Daniel’s full house. Hansen has made many televised poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the greatest bettors around the world. While gambling on web poker, a different side of Hansen has been seen. Gus regularly plays in the 200/400 NL max buy in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen generally buys in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and plays very poorly. He waits patiently for a good hand and then goes all in. I know Gus is an amazing poker player but not even close to the familiar players at 200/400no limit. Unless Gus is broke, he has little or no reason to play at the table with the min buy-in.
Playing for the minimum takes a majority of the expertise out of deep stack poker. Gus is accepted to be 1 of the greatest players anywhere 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 best poker players in the world might just be guys you have won’t have heard about. Gus can be seen wagering on online poker on Full Tilt. He normally participates in big stakes omaha hold’em and texas hold’em. Gus Hansen has shown himself as a competition player. Can he back up his talents in money games?
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