Gus Hansen experienced an amazing year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only player to achieve last poker table in 3 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 remember one of the biggest pots in high stakes poker recorded history against Daniel Negreanu. Hansen secured a large pot with quads against Daniel’s full house. Hansen has made many tv poker appearances and is considered to be one of the greatest bettors around the world. While gambling on internet poker, a different side of Hansen has appeared. He frequently participates in the 200/400 NL max buy-in of $40, 000. Hansen usually buys-in for the minimum of $16, 000 and gambles very poorly. He sits there waiting for a good hand and then goes all in. I know Hansen is an amazing poker player but certainly not even close to the familiar players at 200/400NL. Unless he is flat broke, he has absolutely no reason to sit at the table with the min buy-in.
Buying in for the minimum takes almost all of the ability out of deep stack poker. Hansen is accepted to be 1 of the greatest players anywhere in the world but he can’t buy in for the full amount. I think tv can skew our view of the real world every now and then. The best poker players in the world might just be guys you have never heard of before. Gus can be found participating in web poker on Full Tilt. He generally plays in high stakes Omaha and texas hold’em. Gus Hansen has shown himself as a competition player. Can he back up his skills in cash rounds?
