Gus Hansen enjoyed an amazing year on the WPT where he was the only participant to make it to the final poker table in 3 of the tournaments. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he bought into the game for $400, 000. You might recall one of the biggest pots in big stakes poker history up against Daniel Negreanu. He won a massive pot with quads against Daniel’s full house. Hansen has earned many televised poker appearances and is thought to be one of the strongest bettors in the world. While playing net poker, a different side of Hansen has emerged. He frequently plays in the 200/400 No Limit max buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen generally buys-in for the min of $16, 000 and gambles very poorly. He waits for a decent hand and then pushes all in. I believe Hansen is a great poker player but certainly not even close to the regular players at 200/400NL. Unless he is bankrupt, he has absolutely no reason to sit at the table with the min buy in.
Playing for the min takes most of the skill out of deep stack poker. Hansen is assumed to be one of the greatest poker 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 sometimes. The greatest players in the world might just be guys you have will not have heard of. Gus can be found gambling on internet poker on Full Tilt. He commonly competes in high stakes omaha hold’em and hold’em. Gus has shown himself as a competition player. Can he use his talents in cash rounds?
