Gus Hansen had a wonderful year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only participant to make it to the closing table in three of the competitions. Gus Hansen has appeared 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 high stakes poker recorded history competing against Daniel Negreanu. Gus raked in a large pot with quads against Daniel’s full house. Hansen has earned many tv poker appearances and is considered to be one of the strongest players anywhere in the world. While playing web poker, a different side of Hansen has appeared. Gus regularly participates in the 200/400 No Limit max buy-in of $40, 000. Hansen generally buys in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and plays very poorly. He sits there waiting for a decent hand and then goes all in. I know Gus is an excellent poker player but not even close to the regular players at 200/400no limit. Unless he is bankrupt, he has little or no reason to sit at the game with the min buy in.
Playing for the min takes a majority of the expertise out of deep stack poker. Gus is assumed to be one of the greatest poker players in the world but he can’t buy in for the total amt.. I believe tv can skew our view of the real world every now and then. The greatest players anywhere in the world could be guys you have won’t have heard of before. Gus can be found competing in online poker on Full Tilt. He commonly plays in big stakes Omaha and texas holdem. Gus has proven himself as a competition player. Can he back up his abilities in money games?