Feb 122023
Gus Hansen enjoyed a wonderful year on the WPT where he was the only gambler to make it to the closing game in three of the competitions. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on GSN where he bought into the game for $400, 000. You may recall one of the biggest pots in big stakes poker history against Daniel Negreanu. He raked in a big pot with 4 of a kind against Daniel’s full house. Hansen has earned many tv poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the best enthusiasts anywhere in the world. While playing online poker, a different side of Hansen has emerged. He regularly plays in the 200/400 NL maximum buy-in of $40, 000. Hansen generally buys in for the min of Sixteen Thousand dollars and gambles very poorly. He waits patiently for a good hand and then pushes all in. I know Gus is an excellent poker player but not even close to the regular players at 200/400NL. Unless Gus is flat broke, he has absolutely no reason to sit at the table with the min buy-in.
Playing for the minimum takes a majority of the expertise out of deep stack poker. Hansen is supposed to be 1 of the greatest players in the world but he can’t buy-in for the full amount. I believe television can alter our view of the real world every now and then. The greatest poker players anywhere in the world may be players you have won’t have heard of before. Gus can be found gambling on web poker on Full Tilt. He usually plays in high stakes omaha hi-low and hold’em. Gus has shown himself as a tournament player. Can he back up his abilities in cash rounds?
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