Gus Hansen enjoyed a wonderful year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only gambler to achieve closing table 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 might recall one of the biggest pots in big stakes poker recorded history up against Daniel Negreanu. Hansen won a huge pot with 4 of a kind against Negreanu’s full house. Hansen has earned many tv poker appearances and is thought to be one of the greatest players anywhere in the world. While gambling on online poker, a different side of Hansen has appeared. Gus regularly participates in the 200/400 No Limit max buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen more often than not buys-in for the minimum of $16, 000 and gambles very poorly. He waits for a good hand and then pushes all-in. I accept that Gus is a great poker player but certainly not even close to the familiar players at 200/400no limit. Unless he is bankrupt, he has no reason to play at the table with the minimum buy in.
Playing for the minimum takes almost all of the skill out of big stack poker. Gus is assumed to be one of the best poker players in the world but he cannot buy in for the full dollar value. I think tv can alter our view of the real world every now and then. The best poker players in the world may be players you have never heard of before. Gus can be seen gambling on web poker on Full Tilt. He generally plays in high stakes omaha hi-low and Holdem. Gus Hansen has shown himself as a competition player. Can he back up his abilities in cash games?