Gus Hansen enjoyed an amazing year on the WPT where he was the only participant to achieve closing game in three of the tournaments. Gus Hansen has been seen 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 high stakes poker history up against Daniel Negreanu. Hansen raked in a massive pot with quads against Daniel’s full house. Gus has earned many televised poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the best gamblers in the world. While participating in web poker, a different side of Hansen has emerged. Gus frequently competes in the 200/400 NL max buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Gus generally buys-in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and gambles very poorly. He waits patiently for a decent hand and then goes all in. I accept that Hansen is an outstanding poker player but certainly not even close to the regular players at 200/400no limit. Unless Gus is penniless, he has little or no reason to settle at the table with the min buy in.
Playing for the min takes a majority of the expertise out of big stack poker. Gus is presumed to be 1 of the greatest poker players anywhere in the world but he can’t buy-in for the total amount. I believe television can skew our view of the real world at times. The greatest poker players anywhere in the world might be players you have never heard about. Gus can be seen playing internet poker on Full Tilt. He usually competes in big stakes omaha eight-or-better and Holdem. Gus has proven himself as a competition player. Can he back up his talents in money games?