Web High Stakes Poker- Who is Gus Hansen?
Gus Hansen had an amazing year on the WPT where he was the only player to make it to the last table in three of the competitions. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on GSN where he bought into the game for $400, 000. You might recall one of the biggest pots in big stakes poker recorded history against Daniel Negreanu. Hansen won a massive pot with 4 of a kind against Daniel’s full house. Hansen has made many televised poker appearances and is thought to be one of the greatest enthusiasts anywhere in the world. While playing online poker, a different side of Hansen has appeared. Gus regularly plays in the 200/400 NL maximum buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Gus more often than not buys-in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and gambles very poorly. He waits patiently for a decent hand and then pushes all-in. I accept that Gus is an outstanding poker player but not even close to the familiar players at 200/400NL. Unless he is penniless, he has no reason to play at the game with the minimum buy in.
Buying in for the min takes most of the expertise out of deep stack poker. Gus is accepted to be 1 of the best players in the world but he can’t buy-in for the total dollar value. I believe television can skew our perception of the real world every now and then. The best players in the world might just be players you have won’t have heard of before. Gus can be found competing in web poker on Full Tilt. He commonly plays in high stakes omaha high and Holdem. Gus has shown himself as a tournament player. Can he back up his talents in cash rounds?