Gus Hansen enjoyed a marvelous year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only one to make it to the final poker table in 3 of the events. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on GSN where he paid $400, 000 to play. You may remember one of the largest pots in big stakes poker history competing against Daniel Negreanu. Hansen won a large pot with 4 of a kind against Negreanu’s full house. Hansen has earned many televised poker appearances and is thought to be one of the best bettors around the world. While playing online poker, a different side of Hansen has appeared. He regularly participates in the 200/400 No Limit max buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Gus more often than not buys-in for the min of Sixteen Thousand dollars and plays very weak. He waits for a decent hand and then goes all in. I accept that Hansen is an outstanding poker player but certainly not even close to the everyday players at 200/400no limit. Unless Gus is bankrupt, he has no reason to settle at the table with the min buy in.
Buying in for the minimum takes most of the skill out of deep stack poker. Hansen is accepted to be 1 of the greatest poker players in the world but he can’t buy-in for the total amount. I believe tv can skew our perception of the real world every now and then. The greatest poker players anywhere in the world might be players you have won’t have heard of. Gus can be found betting on internet poker on Full Tilt. He generally plays in high stakes omaha/8 and Holdem. Gus has shown himself as a competition player. Can he use his abilities in cash rounds?
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