Gus Hansen had a marvelous year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only participant to make it to the final table in three of the events. Gus Hansen has appeared 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 high stakes poker recorded history competing against Daniel Negreanu. He raked in a massive pot with 4 of a kind against Negreanu’s full house. Hansen has earned many tv poker appearances and is considered to be one of the best bettors around the world. While gambling on online poker, another side of Hansen has emerged. He frequently plays in the 200/400 NL maximum buy in of $40, 000. Hansen usually buys-in for the min of $16, 000 and gambles very poorly. He waits for a good hand and then goes all in. I believe Gus is an excellent poker player but not even close to the familiar players at 200/400NL. Unless he is flat broke, he has little or no reason to sit at the table with the min buy in.
Playing for the min takes almost all of the skill out of deep stack poker. Hansen is assumed to be one of the greatest poker players in the world but he can’t buy in for the total amount. I think television can skew our view of the real world every now and then. The greatest poker players anywhere in the world could be guys you have will not have heard about. Gus can be seen competing in web poker on Full Tilt. He normally plays in big stakes Omaha and hold’em. Gus has proven himself as a tournament player. Can he back up his abilities in money games?