Gus Hansen had an amazing year on the WPT where he was the only gambler to achieve closing table in 3 of the tournaments. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on GSN where he bought into the game for $400, 000. You may recall one of the largest pots in big stakes poker history up against Daniel Negreanu. Hansen secured a huge pot with 4 of a kind against Negreanu’s full house. Gus has earned many televised poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the strongest bettors anywhere in the world. While betting on web poker, a different side of Hansen has appeared. He regularly competes in the 200/400 No Limit max buy in of $40, 000. Hansen frequently buys-in for the minimum of $16, 000 and plays very poorly. He waits patiently for a good hand and then pushes all in. I believe Gus is an amazing poker player but not even close to the everyday players at 200/400no limit. Unless he is broke, he has little or no reason to sit at the game with the min buy in.
Playing for the min takes almost all of the expertise out of deep stack poker. Hansen is assumed to be one of the greatest players in the world but he can’t buy-in for the full amt.. I believe television can skew our view of the real world at times. The best poker players anywhere in the world could be players you have never heard of before. Gus can be seen competing in web poker on Full Tilt. He usually competes in big stakes omaha hold’em and texas holdem. Gus Hansen has shown himself as a competition player. Can he back up his talents in cash rounds?