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Online Big Stakes Poker- Who is Gus Hansen?
Gus Hansen enjoyed an amazing year on the WPT where he was the only participant to make it to the final game in three of the competitions. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on GSN where he paid $400, 000 to play. You may remember one of the biggest pots in big stakes poker history competing against Daniel Negreanu. Gus won a massive pot with quads against Negreanu’s full house. Hansen has earned many tv poker appearances and is considered to be one of the greatest players anywhere in the world. While gambling on online poker, another side of Hansen has appeared. Gus frequently plays in the 200/400 NL maximum buy in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen frequently buys-in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and gambles very weak. He waits for a good hand and then pushes all-in. I believe Gus is an excellent poker player but certainly not even close to the regular players at 200/400no limit. Unless he is penniless, he has absolutely no reason to sit at the game with the minimum buy in.
Playing for the minimum takes most of the skill out of deep stack poker. Gus is supposed to be 1 of the best players in the world but he cannot buy in for the total amt.. I believe television can skew our perception of the real world sometimes. The best poker players in the world could be players you have will not have heard of. Gus can be found playing net poker on Full Tilt. He normally competes in big stakes omaha hold’em and hold’em. Gus Hansen has proven himself as a competition player. Can he use his talents in money games?