Gus Hansen experienced a wonderful year on the WPT where he was the only player to make it to the final poker table in three of the competitions. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he bought into the game for $400, 000. You may recall one of the biggest pots in high stakes poker history against Daniel Negreanu. Gus secured a massive pot with 4 of a kind against Daniel’s full house. Hansen has made many tv poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the best bettors around the world. While participating in net poker, a different side of Hansen has been seen. He often plays in the 200/400 NL max buy in of Forty Thousand dollars. Gus more often than not buys in for the min of Sixteen Thousand dollars and gambles very weak. He waits patiently for a good hand and then goes all-in. I know Hansen is an excellent poker player but certainly not even close to the regular players at 200/400NL. Unless Gus 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 expertise out of deep stack poker. Hansen is supposed to be one of the greatest poker players in the world but he cannot buy-in for the total amt.. I think television can skew our view of the real world sometimes. The greatest poker players in the world may be guys you have never heard of before. Gus can be found participating in web poker on Full Tilt. He normally plays in big stakes Omaha and Holdem. Gus Hansen has shown himself as a competition player. Can he use his abilities in money games?
