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Gus Hansen enjoyed an amazing year on the WPT where he was the only participant to achieve closing game in 3 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 high stakes poker history competing against Daniel Negreanu. Hansen secured a large pot with quads against Daniel’s full house. Hansen has earned many tv poker appearances and is considered to be one of the greatest bettors around the world. While playing web poker, a different side of Hansen has appeared. He frequently competes in the 200/400 No Limit maximum buy-in of $40, 000. Hansen frequently buys in for the minimum of $16, 000 and gambles very poorly. He sits there waiting for a good hand and then pushes all in. I accept that Gus is an outstanding poker player but certainly not even close to the everyday players at 200/400no limit. Unless Gus is flat broke, he has absolutely no reason to settle at the table with the minimum buy-in.

Buying in for the minimum takes most of the skill out of deep stack poker. Gus is supposed to be one of the greatest poker players anywhere in the world but he can’t buy-in for the total amount. I believe television can skew our view of the real world sometimes. The greatest poker players in the world might just be players you have won’t have heard about. Gus can be found betting on internet poker on Full Tilt. He usually participates in high stakes omaha hi-low and Holdem. Gus Hansen has shown himself as a competition player. Can he back up his abilities in cash rounds?