Gus Hansen had a wonderful year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only one to make it to the last 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 may remember one of the largest pots in big stakes poker history up against Daniel Negreanu. Hansen won a big pot with 4 of a kind against Negreanu’s full house. Hansen has earned many televised poker appearances and is considered to be one of the greatest players anywhere in the world. While playing online poker, a different side of Hansen has appeared. He often competes in the 200/400 NL max buy-in of $40, 000. Hansen usually buys-in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and plays very poorly. He sits there waiting for a decent hand and then goes all in. I accept that Hansen is a great poker player but not even close to the regular players at 200/400NL. Unless he is broke, he has absolutely no reason to settle at the table with the minimum buy-in.
Playing for the minimum takes most of the ability out of deep stack poker. Hansen is assumed to be one of the best poker players anywhere in the world but he can’t buy-in for the total dollar value. I think tv can alter our view of the real world sometimes. The best poker players in the world could be players you have won’t have heard of before. Gus can be seen betting on net poker on Full Tilt. He commonly competes in high stakes omaha hold’em and hold’em. Gus Hansen has shown himself as a competition player. Can he back up his talents in money rounds?