Gus Hansen experienced an amazing year on the WPT where he was the only participant to achieve final 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 might remember one of the largest pots in big stakes poker recorded history competing against Daniel Negreanu. He raked in a large pot with quads against Daniel’s full house. Gus has earned many tv poker appearances and is thought to be one of the greatest players anywhere in the world. While playing internet poker, a different side of Hansen has appeared. He regularly participates in the 200/400 No Limit maximum buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen generally 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 know Gus is an excellent poker player but not even close to the familiar players at 200/400NL. Unless Gus is bankrupt, he has no reason to sit at the game with the min buy-in.
Buying in for the min takes almost all of the ability out of deep stack poker. Gus is accepted to be one of the best poker players in the world but he can’t buy-in for the total amount. I believe television can skew our perception of the real world every now and then. The greatest poker players anywhere in the world might be guys you have will not have heard of. Gus can be found competing in web poker on Full Tilt. He normally plays in high stakes omaha hi-low and texas hold’em. Gus Hansen has proven himself as a tournament player. Can he back up his skills in money rounds?
