Gus Hansen had an amazing year on the WPT where he was the only participant to achieve closing poker table in 3 of the events. Gus Hansen has been seen 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 big stakes poker history up against Daniel Negreanu. Hansen raked in a huge pot with 4 of a kind against Daniel’s full house. Gus has made many tv poker appearances and is considered to be one of the strongest gamblers anywhere in the world. While gambling on net poker, a different side of Hansen has been seen. Gus regularly plays in the 200/400 NL max buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Gus more often than not buys in for the min of Sixteen Thousand dollars and gambles very weak. He sits there waiting for a good hand and then pushes all in. I know Gus is an excellent poker player but certainly not even close to the familiar players at 200/400no limit. Unless Gus is broke, he has no reason to settle at the game with the min buy in.
Playing for the min takes almost all of the ability out of big stack poker. Gus is accepted to be one of the greatest poker players anywhere in the world but he can’t buy-in for the full amount. I think television can skew our perception of the real world sometimes. The best poker players in the world could be players you have won’t have heard of before. Gus can be seen gambling on internet poker on Full Tilt. He usually competes in big stakes omaha hi-low and texas hold’em. Gus has proven himself as a competition player. Can he use his abilities in money games?