Gus Hansen had a wonderful year on the WPT where he was the only player to achieve closing game in three of the competitions. 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 big stakes poker recorded history up against Daniel Negreanu. Hansen secured a large pot with quads against Daniel’s full house. Hansen has earned many televised poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the best players anywhere in the world. While betting on internet poker, a different side of Hansen has been seen. He frequently participates in the 200/400 NL maximum buy in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen generally buys in for the min of Sixteen Thousand dollars and gambles very weak. He sits there waiting for a good hand and then pushes all in. I know Gus is an outstanding poker player but not even close to the familiar players at 200/400NL. Unless he is bankrupt, he has little or no reason to sit at the game with the minimum buy in.
Buying in for the minimum takes a majority of the expertise out of deep stack poker. Hansen is accepted to be one of the best poker players anywhere in the world but he can’t buy in for the total dollar value. I believe tv can skew our perception of the real world every now and then. The greatest players in the world might just be guys you have never heard about. Gus can be found playing web poker on Full Tilt. He normally plays in big stakes Omaha and texas hold’em. Gus Hansen has shown himself as a tournament player. Can he back up his abilities in money rounds?