Gus Hansen experienced a marvelous year on the WPT where he was the only one to make it to the final poker table in 3 of the competitions. Gus Hansen has been seen on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he paid $400, 000 to play. You may remember one of the biggest pots in big stakes poker history competing against Daniel Negreanu. Hansen raked in a huge pot with 4 of a kind against Negreanu’s full house. Hansen has made many tv poker appearances and is thought to be one of the strongest gamblers around the world. While competing in net poker, another side of Hansen has emerged. Gus frequently plays in the 200/400 No Limit maximum buy in of $40, 000. Hansen frequently buys-in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and plays very weak. He sits there waiting for a good hand and then pushes all in. I accept that Hansen is an excellent poker player but not even close to the regular players at 200/400no limit. Unless he is penniless, he has little or no reason to sit at the game with the minimum buy in.
Playing for the minimum takes a majority of the expertise out of big stack poker. Hansen is accepted to be 1 of the greatest 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 sometimes. The greatest players in the world might just be guys you have never heard of. Gus can be found gambling on internet poker on Full Tilt. He generally participates in high stakes Omaha and Holdem. Gus has shown himself as a competition player. Can he back up his skills in money rounds?
