Gus Hansen enjoyed a wonderful year on the WPT where he was the only participant to make it to the last game in 3 of the competitions. Gus Hansen has been seen on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he bought into the game for $400, 000. You might remember one of the biggest pots in high stakes poker recorded history competing against Daniel Negreanu. Hansen raked in a huge pot with 4 of a kind against Negreanu’s full house. Gus has made many tv poker appearances and is considered to be one of the best gamblers around 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. Hansen usually buys-in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and gambles very poorly. He waits for a good hand and then goes all in. I accept that Gus is an amazing poker player but certainly not even close to the regular players at 200/400no limit. Unless Gus is flat broke, he has little or no reason to play at the table with the min buy-in.
Playing for the min takes almost all of the expertise out of deep stack poker. Hansen is supposed to be 1 of the greatest poker players in the world but he can’t buy in for the total amount. I believe tv can alter our view of the real world at times. The best players in the world might be guys you have won’t have heard of. Gus can be found participating in internet poker on Full Tilt. He normally competes in big stakes Omaha and texas hold’em. Gus Hansen has proven himself as a tournament player. Can he back up his skills in money games?