Gus Hansen enjoyed a wonderful year on the WPT where he was the only participant to make it to the closing table in three of the competitions. Gus Hansen has been seen on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he paid $400, 000 to play. You might remember one of the biggest pots in big stakes poker history against Daniel Negreanu. Hansen won a big pot with 4 of a kind against Negreanu’s full house. Hansen has made many tv poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the best players in the world. While betting on web poker, another side of Hansen has appeared. Gus regularly participates in the 200/400 NL max buy in of Forty Thousand dollars. Gus frequently buys-in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and plays very poorly. He waits patiently for a good hand and then pushes all in. I believe Hansen is an excellent poker player but certainly not even close to the everyday players at 200/400NL. Unless Gus is broke, he has no reason to sit at the table with the minimum buy in.
Buying in for the minimum takes most of the expertise out of deep stack poker. Hansen is assumed to be one of the greatest poker players in the world but he can’t buy in for the full amt.. I think television can skew our view of the real world sometimes. The greatest players in the world may be players you have won’t have heard about. Gus can be found betting on net poker on Full Tilt. He commonly participates in big stakes omaha/8 and texas hold’em. Gus has proven himself as a tournament player. Can he back up his skills in money games?
December 7th, 2023
Gracelyn
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