Gus Hansen enjoyed a marvelous year on the WPT where he was the only gambler to achieve last 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 may recall one of the biggest pots in high stakes poker history up against Daniel Negreanu. Hansen raked in a big pot with quads against Daniel’s full house. Hansen has earned many televised poker appearances and is considered to be one of the best gamblers in the world. While betting on online poker, a different side of Hansen has emerged. Gus often plays in the 200/400 NL maximum buy in of $40, 000. Hansen frequently buys-in for the min of Sixteen Thousand dollars and gambles very weak. He sits there waiting for a decent hand and then goes all-in. I know Hansen is an amazing poker player but not even close to the everyday players at 200/400no limit. Unless Gus is broke, he has little or no reason to sit at the table with the min buy in.
Playing for the minimum takes a majority of the skill out of deep stack poker. Hansen is accepted to be 1 of the greatest poker players in the world but he cannot buy-in for the total amount. I think tv can skew our perception of the real world every now and then. The greatest poker players in the world might be guys you have will not have heard about. Gus can be seen participating in web poker on Full Tilt. He normally participates in high stakes Omaha and hold’em. Gus Hansen has proven himself as a tournament player. Can he use his abilities in money rounds?