Gus Hansen had a wonderful year on the WPT where he was the only player to achieve final table in 3 of the events. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on GSN where he bought into the game for $400, 000. You might remember one of the largest pots in high stakes poker history competing against Daniel Negreanu. Hansen raked in a large pot with quads against Daniel’s full house. Gus has earned many tv poker appearances and is thought to be one of the greatest gamblers anywhere in the world. While participating in online poker, another side of Hansen has emerged. Gus frequently competes in the 200/400 NL maximum buy in of $40, 000. Hansen frequently buys in for the min of Sixteen Thousand dollars and plays very poorly. He waits for a good hand and then goes all-in. I accept that Gus is an amazing poker player but not even close to the regular players at 200/400no limit. Unless he is flat broke, he has little or no reason to sit at the game with the minimum buy in.
Buying in for the minimum takes a majority of the skill out of deep stack poker. Hansen is presumed to be 1 of the best players anywhere in the world but he cannot buy in for the total amount. I believe television can skew our perception of the real world at times. The greatest poker players anywhere in the world might just be players you have will not have heard of before. Gus can be seen playing net poker on Full Tilt. He generally participates in high stakes omaha hi-low and Holdem. Gus Hansen has shown himself as a competition player. Can he use his skills in money games?
