Gus Hansen experienced a marvelous year on the WPT where he was the only player to achieve final game in 3 of the competitions. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on GSN where he bought into the game for $400, 000. You may remember one of the biggest pots in high stakes poker recorded history against Daniel Negreanu. He raked in a big pot with 4 of a kind against Daniel’s full house. Hansen has earned many tv poker appearances and is considered to be one of the greatest gamblers around the world. While gambling on internet poker, another side of Hansen has been seen. He regularly plays in the 200/400 NL maximum buy in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen usually buys-in for the min of Sixteen Thousand dollars and gambles very poorly. He waits patiently for a good hand and then pushes all in. I accept that Gus is a great poker player but certainly not even close to the regular players at 200/400NL. Unless Gus is flat broke, he has no reason to sit at the game with the minimum buy-in.
Playing for the minimum takes most of the ability out of deep stack poker. Hansen is supposed to be 1 of the best poker players in the world but he can’t buy in for the full dollar value. I believe television can alter our perception of the real world sometimes. The greatest poker players anywhere in the world could be players you have won’t have heard of before. Gus can be seen participating in online poker on Full Tilt. He commonly participates in high stakes omaha hi-low and hold’em. Gus has shown himself as a competition player. Can he back up his skills in cash games?
