Gus Hansen enjoyed a wonderful year on the WPT where he was the only one to make it to the final poker table in three of the events. Gus Hansen has been seen on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he bought into the game for $400, 000. You might remember one of the largest pots in big stakes poker history competing against Daniel Negreanu. Gus raked in a massive pot with quads against Negreanu’s full house. Gus has made many televised poker appearances and is thought to be one of the best players around the world. While gambling on web poker, another side of Hansen has appeared. He frequently competes in the 200/400 No Limit maximum buy in of Forty Thousand dollars. Gus usually buys in for the min of $16, 000 and gambles very weak. He sits there waiting for a decent hand and then pushes all in. I accept that Hansen is an outstanding poker player but not even close to the everyday players at 200/400NL. Unless he is bankrupt, he has little or no reason to play at the game with the min buy in.
Buying in for the min takes almost all of the skill out of deep stack poker. Gus is assumed to be one of the best players anywhere in the world but he cannot buy-in for the total amount. I think television can skew our view of the real world every now and then. The best poker players in the world may be guys you have will not have heard of before. Gus can be found participating in web poker on Full Tilt. He generally competes in high stakes omaha/8 and Holdem. Gus Hansen has shown himself as a competition player. Can he back up his talents in money games?