Gus Hansen enjoyed an amazing year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only player to make it to the final table in 3 of the competitions. Gus Hansen has been seen on High Stakes Poker on GSN where he bought into the game for $400, 000. You might remember one of the biggest pots in high stakes poker recorded history competing against Daniel Negreanu. Gus won a huge pot with 4 of a kind against Negreanu’s full house. Gus has earned many tv poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the greatest bettors anywhere in the world. While playing online poker, a different side of Hansen has emerged. He regularly plays in the 200/400 NL maximum buy in of $40, 000. Hansen frequently buys in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and plays very poorly. He sits there waiting for a decent hand and then goes all in. I believe Hansen is a great poker player but certainly 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.
Buying in for the min takes most of the expertise out of deep stack poker. Gus is assumed to be 1 of the greatest players in the world but he can’t buy-in for the full dollar value. I think television can skew our view of the real world at times. The best poker players in the world might just be players you have won’t have heard about. Gus can be found competing in online poker on Full Tilt. He generally competes in big stakes Omaha and texas hold’em. Gus has shown himself as a competition player. Can he use his talents in money games?