Gus Hansen experienced a wonderful year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only one to achieve last poker table in three of the tournaments. Gus Hansen has appeared 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. He raked in a huge pot with 4 of a kind against Negreanu’s full house. Gus has made many televised poker appearances and is considered to be one of the greatest bettors anywhere in the world. While playing web poker, another side of Hansen has emerged. He regularly participates in the 200/400 NL max buy in of $40, 000. Hansen generally buys-in for the min of Sixteen Thousand dollars and gambles very weak. He sits there waiting for a good hand and then goes all in. I accept that Gus is a great poker player but certainly not even close to the regular players at 200/400NL. Unless Gus is flat broke, he has little or no reason to sit at the table with the min buy-in.
Buying in for the min takes almost all of the ability out of deep stack poker. Hansen is presumed to be one of the greatest poker players anywhere in the world but he cannot buy in for the full amt.. I think television can skew our perception of the real world at times. The best poker players in the world may be guys you have will not have heard of before. Gus can be found gambling on online poker on Full Tilt. He usually plays in high stakes omaha hi-low and texas hold’em. Gus has shown himself as a competition player. Can he back up his abilities in money rounds?