Gus Hansen enjoyed a wonderful year on the WPT where he was the only one to make it to the last poker table in 3 of the events. Gus Hansen has been seen 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 big stakes poker history against Daniel Negreanu. He raked in a large pot with 4 of a kind against Daniel’s full house. Gus has earned many tv poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the best gamblers around the world. While wagering on online poker, a different side of Hansen has emerged. Gus frequently plays in the 200/400 NL maximum buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Gus frequently buys-in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and gambles very weak. He waits patiently for a good hand and then pushes all-in. I believe Gus is an amazing poker player but not even close to the regular players at 200/400NL. Unless Gus is flat broke, he has little or no reason to settle at the table with the min buy in.
Playing for the minimum takes most of the skill out of big stack poker. Hansen is assumed to be 1 of the best poker players in the world but he cannot buy in for the full amt.. I think tv can skew our perception of the real world sometimes. The greatest poker players in the world might be guys you have never heard of. Gus can be found playing web poker on Full Tilt. He normally plays in high stakes omaha high and hold’em. Gus Hansen has shown himself as a competition player. Can he back up his talents in money games?
