Gus Hansen experienced a wonderful year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only participant to make it to the final game in three of the tournaments. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he paid $400, 000 to play. You may remember one of the biggest pots in big stakes poker history against Daniel Negreanu. Hansen secured a massive pot with quads against Negreanu’s full house. Hansen has earned many televised poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the greatest bettors in the world. While playing online poker, a different side of Hansen has emerged. Gus often plays in the 200/400 No Limit maximum buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Gus generally buys-in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and plays very weak. He waits for a decent hand and then goes all-in. I accept that Hansen is an excellent poker player but not even close to the familiar players at 200/400no limit. Unless he is bankrupt, he has little or no reason to play at the table with the minimum buy in.
Playing for the min takes most of the expertise out of big stack poker. Hansen is accepted to be one of the best players in the world but he cannot buy in for the total amount. I think television can skew our perception of the real world at times. The greatest players in the world might just be players you have won’t have heard of. Gus can be seen participating in net poker on Full Tilt. He normally participates in big stakes omaha/8 and texas holdem. Gus has shown himself as a competition player. Can he back up his skills in money rounds?
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