Gus Hansen enjoyed a wonderful year on the WPT where he was the only gambler to achieve closing table in three of the tournaments. Gus Hansen has been seen on High Stakes Poker on GSN where he bought into the game for $400, 000. You may recall one of the largest pots in big stakes poker recorded history competing against Daniel Negreanu. He secured a big pot with 4 of a kind against Daniel’s full house. Hansen has made many televised poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the best enthusiasts around the world. While playing online poker, another side of Hansen has been seen. He regularly participates in the 200/400 NL maximum buy in of $40, 000. Gus frequently buys-in for the min of Sixteen Thousand dollars and plays very weak. He waits for a decent hand and then goes all in. I accept that Gus is a great poker player but not even close to the familiar players at 200/400no limit. Unless he is penniless, he has little or no reason to settle at the table with the min buy-in.
Buying in for the minimum takes most of the expertise out of deep stack poker. Gus is presumed to be 1 of the greatest poker players anywhere in the world but he cannot buy-in for the total dollar value. I think tv can skew our perception of the real world at times. The best poker players in the world might just be guys you have will not have heard of before. Gus can be seen participating in web poker on Full Tilt. He generally plays in high stakes omaha eight-or-better and hold’em. Gus Hansen has shown himself as a competition player. Can he use his skills in money games?
