Gus Hansen enjoyed a marvelous year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only gambler to achieve closing poker table in 3 of the events. Gus Hansen has been seen on High Stakes Poker on GSN where he bought into the game for $400, 000. You may remember one of the biggest pots in high stakes poker history up against Daniel Negreanu. Gus secured a large pot with quads against Negreanu’s full house. Hansen has made many televised poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the best players anywhere in the world. While gambling on online poker, another side of Hansen has been seen. He regularly plays in the 200/400 NL max buy in of Forty Thousand dollars. Gus frequently buys in for the min of Sixteen Thousand dollars and gambles very poorly. He waits patiently for a good hand and then goes all in. I know Gus is an excellent poker player but certainly not even close to the familiar players at 200/400NL. Unless he is flat broke, he has absolutely no reason to play at the game with the minimum buy-in.

Buying in for the min takes almost all of the ability out of deep stack poker. Hansen is assumed to be 1 of the best poker players anywhere in the world but he cannot buy in for the total amt.. I believe tv can alter our perception of the real world at times. The best poker players in the world might just be players you have will not have heard about. Gus can be seen competing in web poker on Full Tilt. He normally participates in high stakes omaha/8 and texas holdem. Gus Hansen has proven himself as a competition player. Can he back up his talents in cash games?