Gus Hansen experienced a marvelous year on the WPT where he was the only one to make it to the closing table in 3 of the events. Gus Hansen has been seen on High Stakes Poker on GSN where he paid $400, 000 to play. You may recall one of the biggest pots in high stakes poker history competing against Daniel Negreanu. Hansen secured a big pot with quads against Negreanu’s full house. Gus has earned many tv poker appearances and is considered to be one of the best bettors in the world. While betting on web poker, a different side of Hansen has emerged. Gus often plays in the 200/400 NL max buy-in of $40, 000. Gus generally buys in for the min of Sixteen Thousand dollars and gambles very poorly. He waits patiently for a decent hand and then goes all-in. I accept that Hansen is an excellent poker player but certainly not even close to the everyday players at 200/400NL. Unless he is broke, he has little or no reason to sit at the game with the min buy in.
Buying in for the min takes a majority of the expertise out of big stack poker. Gus is supposed to be 1 of the greatest poker players anywhere in the world but he cannot buy-in for the total amount. I think tv can skew our perception of the real world sometimes. The greatest players in the world may be players you have never heard about. Gus can be found playing internet poker on Full Tilt. He generally plays in big stakes omaha high and texas hold’em. Gus Hansen has proven himself as a competition player. Can he use his skills in money games?