Gus Hansen had an amazing year on the WPT where he was the only one to make it to the closing game in 3 of the events. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he paid $400, 000 to play. You might recall one of the biggest pots in high stakes poker recorded history against Daniel Negreanu. Gus won a huge pot with 4 of a kind against Daniel’s full house. Hansen has made many tv poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the strongest bettors anywhere in the world. While competing in online poker, a different side of Hansen has been seen. He regularly plays in the 200/400 NL maximum buy in of Forty Thousand dollars. Gus usually buys in for the minimum of $16, 000 and plays very poorly. He waits patiently for a decent hand and then goes all-in. I accept that Gus is an amazing poker player but not even close to the everyday players at 200/400no limit. Unless he is penniless, he has no reason to play at the game with the min buy-in.
Playing for the min takes a majority of the expertise out of deep stack poker. Hansen is presumed to be 1 of the best players anywhere in the world but he can’t buy in for the total dollar value. I believe tv can alter our perception of the real world every now and then. The greatest poker players in the world could be guys you have never heard about. Gus can be seen playing web poker on Full Tilt. He usually participates in big stakes omaha hold’em and hold’em. Gus Hansen has shown himself as a competition player. Can he back up his skills in money games?
