Gus Hansen had a marvelous year on the WPT where he was the only player to achieve final 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 might recall one of the biggest pots in high stakes poker recorded history up against Daniel Negreanu. Gus raked in a large pot with 4 of a kind against Negreanu’s full house. Gus has made many tv poker appearances and is thought to be one of the strongest gamblers around the world. While betting on web poker, another side of Hansen has emerged. He often plays in the 200/400 NL max buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen more often than not buys-in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and gambles very poorly. He sits there waiting for a good hand and then pushes all in. I believe Gus is an outstanding poker player but certainly not even close to the regular players at 200/400NL. Unless Gus is broke, he has little or no reason to sit at the table with the min buy in.
Buying in for the min takes almost all of the expertise out of deep stack poker. Gus is supposed to be 1 of the greatest players anywhere in the world but he cannot buy in for the full amt.. I believe television can skew our view of the real world at times. The best players in the world could be players you have never heard of. Gus can be seen betting on net poker on Full Tilt. He generally participates in big stakes omaha hi-low and texas hold’em. Gus has proven himself as a tournament player. Can he back up his talents in money rounds?