Net High Stakes Poker- Who is Gus Hansen?
Posted in Poker on 01/20/2020 08:25 pm by Lilly
Gus Hansen enjoyed an amazing year on the WPT where he was the only one to achieve closing game in three of the tournaments. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he paid $400, 000 to play. You might remember one of the biggest pots in high stakes poker history competing against Daniel Negreanu. He won a massive pot with 4 of a kind against Negreanu’s full house. Gus has made many tv poker appearances and is thought to be one of the strongest bettors in the world. While gambling on web poker, another side of Hansen has appeared. Gus frequently participates in the 200/400 No Limit maximum buy-in of $40, 000. Hansen frequently buys in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and gambles very weak. He waits for a decent hand and then goes all in. I believe Hansen is an amazing poker player but not even close to the familiar players at 200/400NL. Unless he is penniless, he has no reason to sit at the table with the minimum buy-in.
Buying in for the min takes a majority of the ability out of deep stack poker. Hansen is presumed to be 1 of the best poker players anywhere in the world but he can’t buy in for the full dollar value. I believe television can skew our perception of the real world sometimes. The greatest players anywhere in the world might just be players you have will not have heard about. Gus can be found playing net poker on Full Tilt. He usually plays in high stakes omaha/8 and texas hold’em. Gus Hansen has shown himself as a competition player. Can he use his abilities in cash rounds?