Gus Hansen enjoyed a wonderful year on the WPT where he was the only participant to make it to the final poker table in three of the events. Gus Hansen has been seen on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he bought into the game for $400, 000. You may recall one of the biggest pots in high stakes poker recorded history competing against Daniel Negreanu. He raked in a large pot with quads against Negreanu’s full house. Hansen has earned many tv poker appearances and is considered to be one of the strongest players in the world. While betting on online poker, a different side of Hansen has emerged. He regularly competes in the 200/400 No Limit maximum buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen usually buys-in for the minimum of $16, 000 and gambles very poorly. He waits for a good hand and then pushes all in. I know Gus is an excellent poker player but not even close to the everyday players at 200/400no limit. Unless he is flat broke, he has absolutely no reason to settle at the table with the min buy in.
Playing for the minimum takes most of the expertise out of deep stack poker. Hansen is accepted to be 1 of the greatest players in the world but he cannot buy-in for the full dollar value. I think television can skew our view of the real world every now and then. The greatest poker players anywhere in the world may 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 has shown himself as a tournament player. Can he back up his abilities in cash rounds?