19
July
Written by Bo.
Posted in: Poker
Gus Hansen enjoyed a marvelous year on the WPT where he was the only player to make it to the closing 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 may recall one of the biggest pots in high stakes poker history competing against Daniel Negreanu. He secured a massive pot with 4 of a kind against Negreanu’s full house. Gus has earned many tv poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the strongest enthusiasts anywhere in the world. While participating in online poker, a different side of Hansen has emerged. He regularly participates in the 200/400 NL maximum buy in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen generally buys in for the min of $16, 000 and gambles very poorly. He waits for a decent hand and then pushes all in. I accept that Gus is an outstanding poker player but certainly not even close to the familiar players at 200/400NL. Unless he is broke, he has little or no reason to sit at the table with the minimum buy-in.
Buying in for the minimum takes almost all of the ability out of big stack poker. Hansen is supposed to be one of the best poker players in the world but he cannot buy-in for the total amt.. I believe tv can skew our perception of the real world every now and then. The best players in the world may be guys you have will not have heard of. Gus can be found playing web poker on Full Tilt. He generally participates in high stakes omaha high and texas holdem. Gus Hansen has proven himself as a competition player. Can he use his skills in cash games?
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