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Gus Hansen enjoyed an amazing year on the WPT where he was the only player to achieve last game in three 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. Gus raked in a huge pot with 4 of a kind against Negreanu’s full house. Gus has made many tv poker appearances and is considered to be one of the best bettors in the world. While wagering on net poker, a different side of Hansen has appeared. Gus frequently plays in the 200/400 NL maximum buy in of $40, 000. Gus frequently buys-in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and gambles very poorly. He waits patiently for a decent hand and then goes all in. I accept that Gus is a great poker player but certainly not even close to the regular players at 200/400no limit. Unless Gus is broke, he has little or no reason to sit at the table with the min buy-in.

Buying in for the min takes almost all of the ability 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 amount. I believe television can alter our perception of the real world at times. The best players anywhere in the world might just be guys you have won’t have heard of. Gus can be seen participating in online poker on Full Tilt. He usually participates in high stakes omaha hold’em and texas hold’em. Gus has proven himself as a tournament player. Can he use his skills in money games?