Gus Hansen enjoyed an amazing year on the WPT where he was the only participant to make it to the closing game in three of the events. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on GSN where he paid $400, 000 to play. You may remember one of the biggest pots in high stakes poker history against Daniel Negreanu. Hansen won a massive pot with 4 of a kind against Daniel’s full house. Gus has earned many tv poker appearances and is thought to be one of the best gamblers around the world. While participating in net poker, another side of Hansen has been seen. He regularly competes in the 200/400 No Limit maximum buy in of $40, 000. Gus generally buys-in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and plays very poorly. He waits patiently for a good hand and then pushes all-in. I know Hansen is an amazing poker player but certainly not even close to the familiar players at 200/400no limit. Unless Gus is broke, he has little or no reason to play at the game with the minimum buy-in.
Playing for the minimum takes almost all of the skill out of big stack poker. Hansen is assumed to be one of the best poker players anywhere in the world but he cannot buy in for the total amt.. I think tv can skew our view of the real world at times. The greatest players anywhere in the world might be guys you have never heard about. Gus can be seen competing in internet poker on Full Tilt. He generally participates in high stakes omaha eight-or-better and Holdem. Gus has proven himself as a competition player. Can he back up his abilities in money games?