Gus Hansen experienced a wonderful year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only participant to achieve closing table in 3 of the competitions. 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 secured a big pot with 4 of a kind against Negreanu’s full house. Hansen has made many televised poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the best gamblers around the world. While gambling on net poker, another side of Hansen has emerged. Gus regularly plays in the 200/400 NL maximum buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen generally buys in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and gambles very weak. He sits there waiting for a decent hand and then goes all in. I accept that Hansen is a great poker player but certainly not even close to the everyday players at 200/400no limit. Unless he is penniless, he has absolutely no reason to settle at the game with the minimum buy-in.
Playing for the minimum takes almost all of the skill out of deep stack poker. Gus is assumed to be 1 of the best poker players in the world but he can’t buy-in for the total amount. I think tv can alter our view of the real world at times. The greatest players in the world might just be players you have will not have heard of before. Gus can be seen gambling on net poker on Full Tilt. He generally plays in big stakes omaha high and texas hold’em. Gus Hansen has proven himself as a competition player. Can he use his talents in money rounds?
