Gus Hansen had an amazing year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only participant to achieve last game in three of the tournaments. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he paid $400, 000 to play. You might remember one of the largest pots in big stakes poker history competing against Daniel Negreanu. He raked in a massive pot with quads against Daniel’s full house. Gus has earned many tv poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the best bettors in the world. While betting on web poker, another side of Hansen has emerged. Gus frequently competes in the 200/400 No Limit maximum buy in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen frequently buys-in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and plays very poorly. He waits for a good hand and then pushes all in. I accept that Hansen is an outstanding poker player but not even close to the regular players at 200/400NL. Unless Gus is bankrupt, he has absolutely no reason to sit at the table with the minimum buy-in.
Buying in for the min takes almost all of the expertise out of deep stack poker. Hansen is accepted to be 1 of the best poker players anywhere in the world but he can’t buy in for the total dollar value. I think television can alter our perception of the real world at times. The greatest poker players anywhere in the world may be players you have will not have heard of. Gus can be seen competing in online poker on Full Tilt. He normally competes in high stakes Omaha and texas hold’em. Gus Hansen has shown himself as a tournament player. Can he use his abilities in money games?