Gus Hansen enjoyed an amazing year on the WPT where he was the only player to achieve closing table in three of the events. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he paid $400, 000 to play. You might remember one of the largest pots in high stakes poker history competing against Daniel Negreanu. Hansen raked in a big pot with 4 of a kind against Daniel’s full house. Gus has made many televised poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the greatest enthusiasts around the world. While gambling on internet poker, another side of Hansen has emerged. Gus regularly competes in the 200/400 No Limit maximum buy in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen generally buys-in for the min of Sixteen Thousand dollars and gambles very poorly. He sits there waiting for a good hand and then goes all-in. I accept that Gus is an excellent poker player but not even close to the familiar players at 200/400NL. Unless Gus is bankrupt, he has absolutely no reason to sit at the table with the minimum buy-in.

Buying in for the minimum takes almost all of the expertise out of deep stack poker. Gus is supposed to be 1 of the greatest poker players in the world but he cannot buy in for the total amount. I believe television can skew our view of the real world at times. The best poker players anywhere in the world may be players you have will not have heard of. Gus can be seen competing in web poker on Full Tilt. He commonly participates in high stakes omaha/8 and hold’em. Gus has shown himself as a competition player. Can he back up his skills in money rounds?