Gus Hansen enjoyed an amazing year on the WPT where he was the only gambler to make it to the closing game in 3 of the events. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he paid $400, 000 to play. You might remember one of the biggest pots in high stakes poker history competing against Daniel Negreanu. He won a large pot with quads against Daniel’s full house. Gus has made many televised poker appearances and is considered to be one of the best gamblers in the world. While betting on web poker, another side of Hansen has been seen. Gus regularly plays in the 200/400 NL max buy in of Forty Thousand dollars. Gus usually buys-in for the min of Sixteen Thousand dollars and gambles very poorly. He waits for a decent hand and then pushes all in. I believe Gus is an outstanding poker player but not even close to the everyday players at 200/400NL. Unless he is broke, he has little or no reason to settle at the table with the min buy-in.
Buying in for the minimum takes almost all of the ability out of deep stack poker. Gus is assumed to be one of the greatest poker players in the world but he cannot buy in for the full amount. I think television can skew our view of the real world sometimes. The best poker players anywhere in the world might just be guys you have won’t have heard about. Gus can be found betting on net poker on Full Tilt. He commonly plays in big stakes omaha hold’em and texas holdem. Gus Hansen has proven himself as a tournament player. Can he back up his skills in money games?