Gus Hansen enjoyed a wonderful year on the WPT where he was the only participant to achieve final poker table in three of the competitions. Gus Hansen has been seen on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he paid $400, 000 to play. You might recall one of the biggest pots in big stakes poker recorded history competing against Daniel Negreanu. He won a big pot with 4 of a kind against Negreanu’s full house. Gus has earned many tv poker appearances and is considered to be one of the greatest bettors in the world. While betting on web poker, a different side of Hansen has emerged. Gus regularly competes in the 200/400 No Limit max buy in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen more often than not buys-in for the min of Sixteen Thousand dollars and plays very poorly. He waits patiently for a good hand and then pushes all-in. I accept that Gus is a great poker player but not even close to the familiar players at 200/400NL. Unless Gus is flat broke, he has absolutely no reason to settle at the game with the minimum buy-in.
Playing for the minimum takes most of the skill out of big stack poker. Gus is accepted to be 1 of the best players anywhere in the world but he cannot buy in for the full amount. I believe television can skew our perception of the real world sometimes. The best poker players anywhere in the world could be players you have won’t have heard of. Gus can be found participating in net poker on Full Tilt. He commonly plays in big stakes omaha high and Holdem. Gus Hansen has shown himself as a competition player. Can he back up his talents in money games?
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