Gus Hansen enjoyed a wonderful year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only one to achieve closing game in three of the tournaments. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he bought into the game for $400, 000. You may recall one of the biggest pots in big stakes poker recorded history against Daniel Negreanu. He raked in a big pot with quads against Negreanu’s full house. Hansen has earned many televised poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the strongest players around the world. While playing internet poker, another side of Hansen has appeared. He frequently plays in the 200/400 No Limit maximum buy in of $40, 000. Hansen frequently buys in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and gambles very weak. He sits there waiting for a decent hand and then goes all-in. I accept that Gus is an excellent poker player but certainly not even close to the familiar players at 200/400NL. Unless he is penniless, he has little or no reason to sit at the game with the minimum buy-in.
Buying in for the minimum takes almost all of the skill out of deep stack poker. Gus is accepted to be 1 of the best poker players in the world but he cannot buy in for the total dollar value. I believe television can alter our view of the real world sometimes. The greatest poker players in the world may be players you have won’t have heard of. Gus can be found gambling on net poker on Full Tilt. He commonly plays in big stakes omaha hold’em and Holdem. Gus has shown himself as a competition player. Can he back up his talents in cash games?
January 23rd, 2016
Zayne
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