Gus Hansen had a marvelous year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only gambler to achieve final game in three of the tournaments. Gus Hansen has been seen on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he bought into the game for $400, 000. You may recall one of the biggest pots in big stakes poker recorded history competing against Daniel Negreanu. Gus won a massive pot with quads against Daniel’s full house. Hansen has made many televised poker appearances and is thought to be one of the best players anywhere in the world. While playing net poker, another side of Hansen has appeared. Gus regularly plays in the 200/400 NL max buy in of $40, 000. Hansen usually buys in for the minimum of $16, 000 and gambles very poorly. He waits for a decent hand and then goes all in. I believe Hansen is an excellent poker player but not even close to the familiar players at 200/400no limit. Unless he is penniless, he has absolutely no reason to play at the game with the min buy in.

Buying in for the minimum takes most of the expertise out of deep stack poker. Hansen is assumed to be one of the best poker players in the world but he cannot buy in for the total dollar value. I think tv can skew our view of the real world sometimes. The greatest players in the world may be players you have will not have heard of. Gus can be seen playing web poker on Full Tilt. He generally plays in high stakes omaha hold’em and Holdem. Gus has shown himself as a competition player. Can he back up his talents in money games?