Gus Hansen enjoyed a wonderful year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only participant to achieve final game in 3 of the tournaments. 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 competing against Daniel Negreanu. Gus won a massive pot with 4 of a kind against Daniel’s full house. Gus has made many tv poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the best enthusiasts anywhere in the world. While gambling on online poker, a different side of Hansen has emerged. Gus frequently competes in the 200/400 No Limit maximum buy in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen more often than not buys in for the minimum of $16, 000 and gambles very weak. He waits for a good hand and then pushes all in. I accept that Hansen is a great poker player but certainly not even close to the everyday players at 200/400no limit. Unless Gus is penniless, he has little or no reason to sit at the game with the minimum buy-in.
Buying in for the minimum takes most of the expertise out of big stack poker. Hansen is assumed to be 1 of the greatest players anywhere in the world but he cannot buy-in for the total amount. I believe television can alter our perception of the real world sometimes. The greatest players in the world might be guys you have will not have heard of. Gus can be found competing in online poker on Full Tilt. He commonly participates in big stakes omaha hi-low and texas hold’em. Gus has shown himself as a competition player. Can he back up his skills in money rounds?
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