Gus Hansen experienced an amazing year on the WPT where he was the only participant to make it to the last poker table in 3 of the competitions. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he paid $400, 000 to play. You might remember one of the largest pots in big stakes poker recorded history up against Daniel Negreanu. Gus won a large pot with 4 of a kind against Negreanu’s full house. Hansen has earned many tv poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the greatest players anywhere in the world. While wagering on web poker, another side of Hansen has appeared. He frequently participates in the 200/400 No Limit maximum buy in of Forty Thousand dollars. Gus generally buys in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and gambles very poorly. He sits there waiting for a good hand and then goes all in. I know Hansen is a great poker player but certainly not even close to the familiar players at 200/400NL. Unless he is bankrupt, he has no reason to sit at the game with the minimum buy in.
Playing for the min takes a majority of the expertise out of big stack poker. Hansen is accepted to be 1 of the greatest players in the world but he can’t buy in for the full amount. I think tv can skew our view of the real world at times. The best poker players in the world might just be guys you have will not have heard of. Gus can be found participating in internet poker on Full Tilt. He generally participates in high stakes omaha hold’em and hold’em. Gus has shown himself as a competition player. Can he use his skills in money games?
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