24 Nov 09

Gus Hansen enjoyed a marvelous year on the WPT where he was the only gambler to achieve final poker table in three of the tournaments. Gus Hansen has been seen 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 big stakes poker recorded history against Daniel Negreanu. Gus raked in a big pot with 4 of a kind against Negreanu’s full house. Gus has earned many televised poker appearances and is considered to be one of the best gamblers anywhere in the world. While gambling on web poker, a different side of Hansen has appeared. Gus often participates in the 200/400 NL max buy in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen frequently buys in for the minimum of $16, 000 and plays very weak. He waits patiently for a good hand and then goes all in. I know Gus is an outstanding poker player but not even close to the familiar players at 200/400no limit. Unless he is penniless, he has no reason to settle at the table with the min buy-in.

Playing for the min takes most of the expertise out of deep stack poker. Gus is presumed to be one of the greatest players in the world but he can’t buy in for the full dollar value. I believe television can skew our view of the real world at times. The greatest poker players in the world could be guys you have won’t have heard of before. Gus can be seen playing online poker on Full Tilt. He normally competes in high stakes omaha eight-or-better and texas hold’em. Gus Hansen has shown himself as a competition player. Can he back up his talents in money rounds?


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