Gus Hansen had an amazing year on the WPT where he was the only one to make it to the last poker table in 3 of the tournaments. Gus Hansen has appeared 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 high stakes poker recorded history competing against Daniel Negreanu. Hansen secured a huge 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 best players in the world. While competing in web poker, a different side of Hansen has appeared. He often plays in the 200/400 NL max buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Gus generally buys in for the minimum of $16, 000 and plays very weak. He sits there waiting for a good hand and then goes all-in. I accept that Gus is a great poker player but not even close to the regular players at 200/400NL. Unless he is flat broke, he has absolutely no reason to play at the game with the minimum buy in.
Buying in for the min takes a majority of the skill out of big stack poker. Gus is accepted to be 1 of the best poker players in the world but he cannot buy in for the total amount. I think tv can alter our view of the real world every now and then. The greatest poker players anywhere in the world might be players you have never heard of before. Gus can be seen gambling on web poker on Full Tilt. He usually participates in big stakes omaha hi-low and Holdem. Gus Hansen has shown himself as a tournament player. Can he use his talents in money games?