Gus Hansen enjoyed a wonderful year on the WPT where he was the only gambler to make it to the final table in three of the events. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he bought into the game for $400, 000. You may remember one of the largest pots in big stakes poker history competing against Daniel Negreanu. He won a massive pot with quads against Daniel’s full house. Hansen has earned many tv poker appearances and is considered to be one of the greatest enthusiasts anywhere in the world. While gambling on internet poker, another side of Hansen has been seen. He regularly competes in the 200/400 No Limit maximum buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen more often than not buys-in for the minimum of $16, 000 and gambles very poorly. He sits there waiting for a decent hand and then goes all-in. I believe Hansen is an excellent poker player but certainly not even close to the everyday players at 200/400NL. Unless Gus is flat broke, he has absolutely no reason to sit at the game with the minimum buy-in.
Playing for the min takes almost all of the skill out of deep stack poker. Gus is presumed to be one of the best players anywhere in the world but he cannot buy-in for the full amount. I believe television can skew our view of the real world sometimes. The greatest poker players in the world might just be players you have won’t have heard about. Gus can be seen competing in online poker on Full Tilt. He normally plays in big stakes omaha/8 and hold’em. Gus Hansen has shown himself as a competition player. Can he use his talents in cash games?
