Gus Hansen enjoyed a wonderful year on the WPT where he was the only one to achieve final poker table in three of the events. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he bought into the game for $400, 000. You may recall one of the biggest pots in big stakes poker recorded history against Daniel Negreanu. He raked in a huge pot with quads against Daniel’s full house. Hansen has earned many tv poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the greatest gamblers anywhere in the world. While gambling on online poker, a different side of Hansen has appeared. Gus often competes in the 200/400 NL maximum buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen generally buys in for the minimum of $16, 000 and plays very poorly. He waits for a good hand and then pushes all in. I believe Gus is an excellent poker player but certainly not even close to the familiar players at 200/400no limit. Unless Gus is flat broke, he has absolutely no reason to settle at the table with the minimum buy-in.
Buying in for the minimum takes a majority of the expertise out of deep stack poker. Gus is assumed to be one of the best players anywhere in the world but he cannot buy-in for the full dollar value. I believe television can skew our view of the real world every now and then. The greatest players in the world might be guys you have will not have heard of before. Gus can be seen participating in net poker on Full Tilt. He usually plays in high stakes omaha eight-or-better and texas holdem. Gus has shown himself as a tournament player. Can he back up his talents in money games?