Gus Hansen enjoyed a wonderful year on the WPT where he was the only one to make it to the closing poker table in three of the competitions. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he bought into the game for $400, 000. You might remember one of the largest pots in high stakes poker recorded history against Daniel Negreanu. He raked in a massive pot with 4 of a kind against Daniel’s full house. Gus has earned many tv poker appearances and is considered to be one of the best enthusiasts anywhere in the world. While competing in internet poker, another side of Hansen has emerged. He frequently plays in the 200/400 NL max buy in of Forty Thousand dollars. Gus frequently buys-in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and gambles very poorly. He sits there waiting for a decent hand and then goes all-in. I accept that Hansen is an amazing poker player but not even close to the familiar players at 200/400no limit. Unless Gus is flat broke, he has absolutely no reason to settle at the game with the min buy-in.
Buying in for the minimum takes most of the skill out of deep stack poker. Gus is presumed to be 1 of the greatest players in the world but he cannot buy-in for the total amount. I think tv can skew our perception of the real world sometimes. The best poker players in the world may be players you have never heard of. Gus can be seen gambling on online poker on Full Tilt. He normally participates in big stakes omaha/8 and hold’em. Gus has proven himself as a competition player. Can he back up his talents in money rounds?
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