Gus Hansen experienced a wonderful year on the WPT where he was the only player to make it to the closing game in three of the events. 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 biggest pots in high stakes poker history up against Daniel Negreanu. Gus raked in a big pot with 4 of a kind against Negreanu’s full house. Gus has made many televised poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the strongest bettors anywhere in the world. While competing in net poker, another side of Hansen has been seen. Gus regularly competes in the 200/400 No Limit maximum buy in of Forty Thousand dollars. Gus frequently buys-in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and plays very poorly. He sits there waiting for a decent hand and then pushes all in. I know Hansen is an outstanding poker player but certainly not even close to the regular players at 200/400NL. Unless he is flat broke, he has absolutely no reason to sit at the game with the minimum buy in.

Playing for the min takes a majority of the ability out of deep stack poker. Hansen is assumed to be one of the best poker players in the world but he can’t buy in for the total amt.. I believe tv can alter our perception of the real world sometimes. The greatest players in the world may be players you have never heard of. Gus can be seen gambling on net poker on Full Tilt. He commonly competes in high stakes omaha hi-low and texas hold’em. Gus Hansen has shown himself as a competition player. Can he back up his skills in money games?