Gus Hansen enjoyed a marvelous year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only one to achieve final game in 3 of the tournaments. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on GSN where he paid $400, 000 to play. You might recall one of the largest pots in big stakes poker recorded history competing against Daniel Negreanu. He raked in a large pot with 4 of a kind against Daniel’s full house. Gus has made many tv poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the greatest enthusiasts around the world. While betting on net poker, another side of Hansen has been seen. Gus often plays in the 200/400 No Limit maximum buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen generally buys-in for the minimum of $16, 000 and gambles very poorly. He waits patiently for a good hand and then pushes all-in. I accept that Hansen is an amazing poker player but certainly not even close to the everyday players at 200/400no limit. Unless he is broke, he has no reason to settle at the table with the minimum buy in.
Playing for the min takes most of the expertise out of big stack poker. Hansen is assumed to be 1 of the best poker players anywhere in the world but he can’t buy in for the total amount. I think tv can skew our perception of the real world at times. The greatest poker players anywhere in the world might just be players you have won’t have heard of before. Gus can be seen competing in net poker on Full Tilt. He normally plays in high stakes Omaha and Holdem. Gus has shown himself as a competition player. Can he back up his talents in money rounds?
