Jun 232019
Gus Hansen experienced a wonderful year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only one to make it to the final game in three of the events. Gus Hansen has been seen on High Stakes Poker on GSN 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. Hansen won a large pot with 4 of a kind against Daniel’s full house. Hansen has earned many televised poker appearances and is considered to be one of the strongest gamblers anywhere in the world. While playing internet poker, a different side of Hansen has appeared. He frequently participates in the 200/400 NL maximum buy in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen usually buys-in for the min of $16, 000 and gambles very poorly. He sits there waiting for a decent hand and then pushes all in. I know Hansen is an outstanding poker player but not even close to the everyday players at 200/400NL. Unless Gus is broke, he has absolutely no reason to sit at the table with the minimum buy in.
Buying in for the minimum takes almost all of the skill out of deep stack poker. Hansen is assumed to be one of the best players in the world but he cannot buy-in for the full amount. I think television can alter our perception of the real world sometimes. The greatest poker players anywhere in the world might be guys you have won’t have heard of. Gus can be seen playing net poker on Full Tilt. He commonly competes in big stakes Omaha and texas hold’em. Gus has shown himself as a competition player. Can he back up his skills in money games?
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