Gus Hansen enjoyed a marvelous year on the WPT where he was the only gambler to make it to the final table in three of the tournaments. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on GSN where he paid $400, 000 to play. You may remember one of the largest pots in big stakes poker recorded history up against Daniel Negreanu. Gus raked in a big pot with quads against Daniel’s full house. Hansen has earned many televised poker appearances and is considered to be one of the strongest players in the world. While betting on web poker, another side of Hansen has been seen. Gus frequently participates in the 200/400 NL maximum buy in of $40, 000. Hansen usually buys in for the min of Sixteen Thousand dollars and plays very poorly. He waits for a decent hand and then goes all-in. I accept that Gus is an excellent poker player but not even close to the everyday players at 200/400NL. Unless he is flat broke, he has absolutely no reason to settle at the table with the min buy-in.

Buying in for the minimum takes almost all of the skill out of big stack poker. Gus is assumed to be 1 of the greatest poker players in the world but he cannot buy-in for the total amount. I think television can skew our perception of the real world at times. The best players anywhere in the world might just be guys you have will not have heard of before. Gus can be seen playing online poker on Full Tilt. He normally plays in high stakes Omaha and texas hold’em. Gus has shown himself as a tournament player. Can he back up his skills in cash rounds?