Gus Hansen experienced an amazing year on the WPT where he was the only participant to achieve closing poker table in three of the competitions. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on GSN where he bought into the game for $400, 000. You might recall one of the largest pots in big stakes poker recorded history up against Daniel Negreanu. He raked in a large pot with quads against Negreanu’s full house. Gus has earned many tv poker appearances and is considered to be one of the greatest players around the world. While competing in web poker, another side of Hansen has appeared. He regularly participates in the 200/400 NL max buy-in of $40, 000. Gus generally buys in for the min of $16, 000 and plays very poorly. He sits there waiting for a decent hand and then pushes all in. I believe Gus is an amazing poker player but not even close to the familiar players at 200/400no limit. Unless he is penniless, he has absolutely no reason to sit at the table with the min buy-in.

Playing for the minimum takes almost all of the expertise out of big stack poker. Gus is accepted to be one of the best poker players in the world but he cannot buy in for the total dollar value. I think television can alter our view of the real world sometimes. The greatest poker players in the world may be players you have will not have heard about. Gus can be seen playing internet poker on Full Tilt. He commonly plays in big stakes omaha eight-or-better and hold’em. Gus Hansen has shown himself as a competition player. Can he use his skills in cash games?