Gus Hansen enjoyed an amazing year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only one to make it to the closing game in 3 of the competitions. Gus Hansen has been seen on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he paid $400, 000 to play. You may remember one of the largest pots in big stakes poker recorded history up against Daniel Negreanu. Gus won a massive pot with quads against Negreanu’s full house. Gus has earned many tv poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the best bettors in the world. While competing in web poker, another side of Hansen has appeared. He frequently competes in the 200/400 NL max buy in of $40, 000. Hansen frequently buys in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and gambles very weak. He sits there waiting for a good hand and then pushes all-in. I believe Hansen is an excellent poker player but not even close to the regular players at 200/400NL. Unless Gus is broke, he has no reason to sit at the game with the min buy-in.
Buying in for the minimum takes a majority of the ability out of deep stack poker. Gus is assumed to be 1 of the best poker players in the world but he can’t buy-in for the full amount. I think television can skew our view of the real world sometimes. The best players in the world might just be guys you have will not have heard about. Gus can be found playing online poker on Full Tilt. He generally plays in big stakes omaha hi-low and Holdem. Gus Hansen has shown himself as a competition player. Can he back up his abilities in money games?
