Online High Stakes Poker- Gus Hansen
Sunday, 18. April 2021
Gus Hansen experienced a marvelous year on the WPT where he was the only player to make it to the closing poker table in 3 of the events. Gus Hansen has appeared 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 won a massive pot with quads against Negreanu’s full house. Gus has made many tv poker appearances and is thought to be one of the best bettors in the world. While competing in online poker, another side of Hansen has appeared. He frequently competes in the 200/400 NL maximum buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen frequently buys in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and plays very poorly. He waits patiently for a decent hand and then pushes all in. I know Hansen is an excellent poker player but certainly not even close to the everyday players at 200/400no limit. Unless Gus is penniless, he has little or no reason to sit at the table with the minimum buy-in.
Buying in for the min takes a majority of the expertise out of deep stack poker. Gus is assumed to be 1 of the best poker players anywhere in the world but he can’t buy in for the total dollar value. I think tv can skew our view of the real world sometimes. The best players in the world could be guys you have won’t have heard of before. Gus can be seen betting on net poker on Full Tilt. He usually participates in high stakes omaha/8 and texas holdem. Gus has proven himself as a tournament player. Can he back up his abilities in money rounds?
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