Gus Hansen experienced an amazing year on the WPT where he was the only player to achieve final poker table in three 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 high stakes poker history competing against Daniel Negreanu. Hansen secured a huge pot with quads against Negreanu’s full house. Hansen has earned many televised poker appearances and is considered to be one of the strongest gamblers in the world. While playing web poker, a different side of Hansen has been seen. He often participates in the 200/400 No Limit max buy in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen frequently buys in for the min of Sixteen Thousand dollars and plays very poorly. He waits patiently for a good hand and then goes all in. I believe Hansen is an outstanding poker player but certainly not even close to the regular players at 200/400no limit. Unless he is flat broke, he has no reason to play at the table with the min buy-in.
Buying in for the min takes almost all of the ability out of deep stack poker. Gus is presumed to be 1 of the best players anywhere in the world but he can’t buy in for the full dollar value. I think television can skew our view of the real world at times. The greatest players anywhere in the world may be players you have will not have heard about. Gus can be found playing web poker on Full Tilt. He commonly competes in big stakes omaha hold’em and hold’em. Gus has proven himself as a competition player. Can he use his talents in money rounds?
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