Gus Hansen experienced an amazing year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only player to achieve closing game in three 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 big stakes poker recorded history competing against Daniel Negreanu. Gus secured a massive pot with 4 of a kind against Negreanu’s full house. Gus has earned many tv poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the greatest gamblers in the world. While gambling on online poker, a different side of Hansen has emerged. Gus frequently plays in the 200/400 NL maximum buy-in of $40, 000. Gus frequently buys in for the minimum of $16, 000 and plays very weak. He waits for a decent hand and then goes all-in. I believe Gus is an amazing poker player but certainly not even close to the regular players at 200/400NL. Unless he is broke, he has absolutely no reason to sit at the game with the minimum buy-in.
Playing for the min takes most of the expertise out of big stack poker. Gus is assumed to be 1 of the greatest poker players anywhere in the world but he can’t buy-in for the total dollar value. I believe tv can skew our view of the real world every now and then. The best players in the world could be players you have never heard of. Gus can be seen betting on web poker on Full Tilt. He commonly competes in high stakes Omaha and hold’em. Gus has shown himself as a competition player. Can he use his talents in cash games?