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Gus Hansen enjoyed an amazing year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only one to make it to the final poker table in three of the competitions. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he paid $400, 000 to play. You might recall one of the biggest pots in big stakes poker recorded history competing against Daniel Negreanu. Hansen raked in a large pot with quads against Negreanu’s full house. Hansen has made many televised poker appearances and is thought to be one of the best bettors anywhere in the world. While gambling on net poker, a different side of Hansen has emerged. He often competes in the 200/400 No Limit maximum buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen frequently buys in for the min of Sixteen Thousand dollars and gambles very weak. He waits patiently for a decent hand and then pushes all in. I accept that Gus is a great poker player but certainly not even close to the familiar players at 200/400NL. Unless he is penniless, he has no reason to settle at the table with the min buy-in.

Playing for the minimum takes almost all of the expertise out of big stack poker. Hansen is supposed to be one of the greatest poker players anywhere in the world but he can’t buy-in for the total dollar value. I believe television can alter our view of the real world every now and then. The greatest poker players in the world may be guys you have won’t have heard about. Gus can be seen competing in web poker on Full Tilt. He generally participates in big stakes omaha hi-low and texas hold’em. Gus Hansen has proven himself as a competition player. Can he use his abilities in money games?