Gus Hansen enjoyed a wonderful year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only player to achieve last table in three of the competitions. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he bought into the game for $400, 000. You may remember one of the largest pots in big stakes poker history up against Daniel Negreanu. Gus raked in a massive pot with 4 of a kind against Daniel’s full house. Hansen has earned many tv poker appearances and is thought to be one of the strongest bettors in the world. While playing online poker, another side of Hansen has been seen. He regularly plays in the 200/400 No Limit max buy in of Forty Thousand dollars. Gus usually buys-in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and plays very weak. He waits for a decent hand and then goes all-in. I accept that Gus is an amazing poker player but certainly not even close to the familiar players at 200/400no limit. Unless he is broke, he has little or no reason to settle at the table with the minimum buy in.
Buying in for the min takes a majority of the expertise out of deep stack poker. Hansen is supposed to be 1 of the greatest players anywhere in the world but he cannot buy in for the full amt.. I think television can alter our perception of the real world every now and then. The best poker players in the world could be guys you have will not have heard of. Gus can be seen gambling on web poker on Full Tilt. He commonly participates in high stakes Omaha and hold’em. Gus has shown himself as a competition player. Can he use his abilities in money games?