Gus Hansen experienced an amazing year on the WPT where he was the only player to achieve last game in 3 of the competitions. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on GSN where he paid $400, 000 to play. You may remember one of the biggest pots in big stakes poker history competing against Daniel Negreanu. Gus secured a huge pot with quads against Negreanu’s full house. Gus has made many tv poker appearances and is considered to be one of the best bettors anywhere in the world. While betting on internet poker, another side of Hansen has appeared. He regularly plays in the 200/400 No Limit maximum buy in of $40, 000. Gus generally buys-in for the minimum of $16, 000 and gambles very poorly. He sits there waiting for a decent hand and then goes all-in. I know Gus is an amazing poker player but not even close to the regular players at 200/400no limit. Unless Gus is bankrupt, he has absolutely no reason to settle at the game with the min buy in.
Buying in for the min takes a majority of the expertise out of deep stack poker. Gus is accepted to be 1 of the best poker players anywhere in the world but he can’t buy-in for the full dollar value. I think tv can skew our view of the real world every now and then. The greatest poker players in the world might just be players you have never heard of. Gus can be seen playing online poker on Full Tilt. He usually competes in high stakes Omaha and texas holdem. Gus Hansen has shown himself as a competition player. Can he back up his skills in money games?
