Gus Hansen had an amazing year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only player to make it to the last poker table in three of the competitions. Gus Hansen has been seen on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he paid $400, 000 to play. You may recall one of the largest pots in big stakes poker recorded history against Daniel Negreanu. Gus secured a big pot with 4 of a kind against Negreanu’s full house. Hansen has made many tv poker appearances and is thought to be one of the strongest bettors anywhere in the world. While competing in web poker, a different side of Hansen has emerged. Gus frequently participates in the 200/400 NL maximum buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen frequently buys-in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and plays very weak. He sits there waiting for a decent hand and then pushes all-in. I accept that Gus is an excellent poker player but not even close to the everyday players at 200/400no limit. Unless he is flat broke, he has absolutely no reason to play at the game with the min buy in.

Buying in for the min takes almost all of the expertise out of deep stack poker. Gus is assumed to be 1 of the best poker players in the world but he can’t buy-in for the full amount. I think tv can skew our perception of the real world at times. The greatest poker players anywhere in the world might be guys you have won’t have heard of. Gus can be seen betting on net poker on Full Tilt. He usually competes in big stakes omaha/8 and texas hold’em. Gus Hansen has shown himself as a tournament player. Can he use his abilities in cash games?