22
March
Written by Abdiel.
Posted in: Poker
Gus Hansen had an amazing year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only player to achieve final table in three of the competitions. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on GSN where he paid $400, 000 to play. You may recall one of the largest pots in big stakes poker recorded history up against Daniel Negreanu. Gus won a large pot with quads against Daniel’s full house. Hansen has earned many televised poker appearances and is considered to be one of the strongest gamblers anywhere in the world. While gambling on internet poker, another side of Hansen has been seen. He frequently competes in the 200/400 NL max buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Gus more often than not buys in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and plays very poorly. He sits there waiting for a good hand and then pushes all-in. I believe Hansen is an excellent poker player but not even close to the familiar players at 200/400NL. Unless he is penniless, he has no reason to sit at the game with the minimum buy-in.
Playing for the min takes almost all of the expertise out of deep stack poker. Gus is assumed to be 1 of the greatest players in the world but he can’t buy-in for the full amt.. I believe tv can alter our view of the real world sometimes. The greatest players in the world might be players you have will not have heard about. Gus can be seen betting on web poker on Full Tilt. He commonly competes in high stakes Omaha and texas hold’em. Gus has shown himself as a competition player. Can he use his abilities in cash games?
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