Gus Hansen enjoyed a marvelous year on the WPT where he was the only participant to achieve closing poker table in 3 of the competitions. 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 competing against Daniel Negreanu. Hansen won a huge pot with quads against Daniel’s full house. Hansen has made many televised poker appearances and is considered to be one of the best bettors anywhere in the world. While competing in internet poker, another side of Hansen has appeared. He regularly plays 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 plays very poorly. He sits there waiting for a good hand and then pushes all-in. I know Hansen is a great poker player but certainly not even close to the familiar players at 200/400NL. Unless Gus is broke, he has little or no reason to sit at the table with the minimum buy-in.

Playing for the min takes almost all of the expertise out of deep stack poker. Gus is assumed to be one of the best poker players anywhere in the world but he cannot buy in for the full amount. I believe tv can skew our perception of the real world at times. The greatest poker players in the world might be players you have won’t have heard about. Gus can be seen wagering on internet poker on Full Tilt. He generally plays in big stakes omaha hi-low and texas hold’em. Gus has shown himself as a tournament player. Can he back up his talents in money rounds?