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Gus Hansen had an amazing year on the WPT where he was the only participant to achieve closing table 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 recall one of the biggest pots in big stakes poker recorded history competing against Daniel Negreanu. He raked in a large pot with quads against Daniel’s full house. Hansen has made many televised poker appearances and is considered to be one of the strongest players in the world. While gambling on online poker, another side of Hansen has been seen. Gus regularly plays in the 200/400 NL maximum buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Gus generally buys-in for the minimum of $16, 000 and gambles very weak. He sits there waiting for a decent hand and then pushes all in. I know Hansen is an outstanding poker player but not even close to the everyday players at 200/400NL. Unless Gus is broke, he has little or no reason to settle at the table with the min buy-in.

Playing for the min takes a majority of the ability out of big stack poker. Hansen is accepted to be 1 of the greatest poker players anywhere in the world but he can’t buy-in for the full dollar value. I think tv can alter our perception of the real world every now and then. The greatest poker players anywhere in the world might be players you have never heard of. Gus can be found competing in web poker on Full Tilt. He usually plays in high stakes omaha hi-low and hold’em. Gus has shown himself as a competition player. Can he back up his skills in cash games?