Gus Hansen experienced a wonderful year on the WPT where he was the only one to achieve closing game in 3 of the events. 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 big stakes poker recorded history competing against Daniel Negreanu. Hansen secured a massive pot with quads against Daniel’s full house. Hansen has made many tv poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the strongest players in the world. While betting on online poker, a different side of Hansen has appeared. Gus often competes in the 200/400 NL max buy-in of $40, 000. Hansen generally buys-in for the min of Sixteen Thousand dollars and plays very weak. He waits for a good hand and then pushes all in. I know Hansen is an amazing 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 min buy-in.
Buying in for the min takes most of the ability out of big stack poker. Hansen is accepted to be one of the greatest poker players anywhere in the world but he cannot buy in for the total amt.. I believe television can alter our view of the real world every now and then. The greatest poker players in the world could be players you have won’t have heard about. Gus can be seen competing in web poker on Full Tilt. He commonly participates in high stakes omaha/8 and texas hold’em. Gus has proven himself as a competition player. Can he use his abilities in cash games?
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