Gus Hansen experienced a wonderful year on the WPT where he was the only player to achieve final poker table in three of the tournaments. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he paid $400, 000 to play. You may remember one of the biggest pots in big stakes poker recorded history competing against Daniel Negreanu. Gus secured a massive pot with quads against Negreanu’s full house. Hansen has earned many televised poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the strongest enthusiasts in the world. While competing in online poker, another side of Hansen has emerged. He frequently participates in the 200/400 No Limit max buy in of $40, 000. Gus generally buys-in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and plays very poorly. He sits there waiting for a good hand and then pushes all-in. I accept that Hansen is an amazing poker player but certainly not even close to the everyday players at 200/400NL. Unless Gus is bankrupt, he has absolutely no reason to sit at the game with the minimum buy in.
Playing for the min takes a majority of the expertise out of big stack poker. Hansen is presumed to be one of the greatest poker players in the world but he can’t buy in for the total amount. I believe television can skew our perception of the real world every now and then. The greatest players anywhere in the world may be players you have never heard of. Gus can be seen gambling on online poker on Full Tilt. He commonly participates in big stakes Omaha and texas holdem. Gus Hansen has shown himself as a competition player. Can he back up his abilities in money rounds?