Gus Hansen enjoyed a wonderful year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only gambler to achieve last poker table in three of the events. 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 recall one of the biggest pots in big stakes poker history competing against Daniel Negreanu. Gus raked in a massive pot with 4 of a kind against Negreanu’s full house. Hansen has earned many televised poker appearances and is thought to be one of the greatest players around the world. While competing in internet poker, another side of Hansen has been seen. Gus frequently participates in the 200/400 NL max buy in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen generally buys-in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and plays very poorly. He sits there waiting for a decent hand and then pushes all-in. I accept that Hansen is a great poker player but not even close to the familiar players at 200/400no limit. Unless he is bankrupt, he has little or no reason to sit at the game with the minimum buy in.
Buying in for the min takes almost all of the skill out of deep stack poker. Gus is supposed to be one of the greatest poker players anywhere in the world but he can’t buy-in for the full dollar value. I believe tv can alter our view of the real world sometimes. The best players anywhere in the world may be guys you have never heard of before. Gus can be seen playing web poker on Full Tilt. He normally participates in big stakes omaha eight-or-better and Holdem. Gus has proven himself as a competition player. Can he use his talents in money games?