Gus Hansen experienced an amazing year on the WPT where he was the only participant to achieve closing game in three of the events. Gus Hansen has been seen on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he bought into the game for $400, 000. You may recall one of the largest pots in big stakes poker history competing against Daniel Negreanu. Gus won a big 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 best gamblers in the world. While competing in internet poker, a different side of Hansen has appeared. Gus frequently participates in the 200/400 NL maximum buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen usually buys in for the minimum of $16, 000 and plays very poorly. He waits patiently for a decent hand and then pushes all-in. I accept that Gus is a great poker player but not even close to the everyday players at 200/400NL. Unless Gus is flat broke, he has little or no reason to sit at the game with the minimum buy in.
Buying in for the min takes almost all of the skill out of deep stack poker. Hansen is accepted to be 1 of the greatest players in the world but he can’t buy-in for the full amt.. I think tv can skew our view of the real world every now and then. The best players anywhere in the world may be guys you have will not have heard of. Gus can be seen participating in online poker on Full Tilt. He normally competes in big stakes omaha hi-low and texas holdem. Gus Hansen has shown himself as a competition player. Can he use his skills in cash games?
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