Gus Hansen had an amazing year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only player to make it to the last game in 3 of the tournaments. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on GSN where he bought into the game for $400, 000. You may remember one of the largest pots in high stakes poker recorded history competing against Daniel Negreanu. He raked in a massive pot with quads against Daniel’s full house. Hansen has made many televised poker appearances and is thought to be one of the greatest players in the world. While competing in online poker, a different side of Hansen has appeared. Gus frequently participates in the 200/400 NL max buy in of $40, 000. Hansen generally buys in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and plays very poorly. He waits for a decent hand and then pushes all in. I know Gus is an excellent poker player but not even close to the regular players at 200/400NL. Unless he is broke, he has little or no reason to sit at the game with the minimum buy-in.
Buying in for the minimum takes almost all of the ability out of big stack poker. Gus is accepted to be 1 of the best poker players in the world but he can’t buy-in for the total dollar value. I think tv can skew our perception of the real world at times. The greatest players anywhere in the world might be guys you have will not have heard of. Gus can be seen participating in internet poker on Full Tilt. He normally competes in big stakes omaha/8 and texas hold’em. Gus has shown himself as a tournament player. Can he back up his talents in money games?