Gus Hansen experienced an amazing year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only participant to achieve closing table in 3 of the competitions. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on GSN where he paid $400, 000 to play. You might recall one of the largest pots in big stakes poker history competing against Daniel Negreanu. He secured a massive pot with 4 of a kind against Negreanu’s full house. Gus has earned many televised poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the strongest bettors around the world. While playing net poker, a different side of Hansen has emerged. Gus regularly participates in the 200/400 No Limit max buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen usually buys in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and gambles very weak. He sits there waiting for a decent hand and then goes all-in. I know Gus is a great poker player but not even close to the regular players at 200/400no limit. Unless he is bankrupt, he has little or no reason to sit at the table with the min buy-in.
Buying in for the minimum takes a majority of the skill out of deep stack poker. Gus is accepted to be 1 of the best players anywhere in the world but he cannot buy-in for the full amount. I believe television can skew our view of the real world sometimes. The greatest poker players in the world might just be players you have never heard of. Gus can be found betting on web poker on Full Tilt. He generally plays in big stakes omaha hold’em and texas hold’em. Gus has proven himself as a competition player. Can he use his abilities in cash games?