Gus Hansen experienced a marvelous year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only participant to achieve closing table in 3 of the tournaments. 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 high stakes poker history competing against Daniel Negreanu. Hansen won a large pot with quads against Negreanu’s full house. Hansen has made many tv poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the greatest gamblers around the world. While gambling on online poker, another side of Hansen has emerged. Gus often competes in the 200/400 No Limit max buy in of $40, 000. Gus generally buys-in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and plays very poorly. He waits for a good hand and then pushes all-in. I accept that Gus is an amazing poker player but certainly not even close to the familiar players at 200/400NL. Unless Gus is bankrupt, he has little or no reason to settle at the game with the min buy-in.

Buying in for the min takes most of the expertise out of deep stack poker. Hansen is assumed to be one of the greatest players in the world but he cannot buy-in for the full amt.. I believe television can alter our view of the real world sometimes. The greatest poker players in the world may be guys you have won’t have heard of. Gus can be found betting on online poker on Full Tilt. He normally plays in high stakes omaha/8 and texas holdem. Gus has shown himself as a competition player. Can he back up his talents in money games?