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Gus Hansen had a wonderful year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only participant to achieve final game in three of the tournaments. Gus Hansen has been seen on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he paid $400, 000 to play. You might remember one of the biggest pots in high stakes poker recorded history against Daniel Negreanu. Hansen raked in a huge pot with quads against Daniel’s full house. Gus has made many televised poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the best players around the world. While competing in web poker, another side of Hansen has emerged. Gus regularly competes in the 200/400 No Limit maximum buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen frequently buys-in for the min of $16, 000 and plays very weak. He sits there waiting for a good hand and then pushes all in. I know Gus is an outstanding poker player but certainly not even close to the familiar players at 200/400no limit. Unless he is broke, he has little or no reason to play at the table with the min buy-in.

Buying in for the min takes most of the expertise out of big stack poker. Gus is supposed to be one of the greatest poker players in the world but he cannot buy-in for the full dollar value. I think television can skew our view of the real world sometimes. The greatest players in the world could be players you have will not have heard of before. Gus can be found competing in online poker on Full Tilt. He usually plays in big stakes omaha hi-low and texas holdem. Gus Hansen has proven himself as a competition player. Can he back up his talents in cash rounds?

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Net poker has expanded over the last couple of years and it’s not disappearing any time. Most of the well-known pros are staying at home to compete in net poker rather than at the casino. On any given evening you can see Phil Ivey, Mike Matusow, or Gus Hansen playing net poker at Full Tilt. Patrik Antonius who uses the screen name of Luigi66369 dominates the high stakes money games on the net. He frequently sits with $60, 000 at the three hundred/six hundredNL tables ready for other players to compete with him. Normally Phil Ivey or some better known online professional will step up and challenge Antonius one on one for a bit of cash. Antonius and Ivey have defeated any adversaries that have challenged them in the last couple of months. Pots that surpass one hundred thousand dollars are a regular occurrence and the pots are only growing largerare not getting any smaller.

John Juanda can usually be found participating in the fifty/one hundred No Limit games with a maximum buy-in of then thousand dollars. Juanda might be one of the more dependable players at the tables. He always appears to be up 20 to 30 thousand by the end of the night. If you like a good show, make sure to pop-in and observe Mike "The Mouth" Matusow up to his regular antics. Mike makes sure to talk to observersand will regularly tell his adversaries how fantastic he is at poker. Mike is well-known for displaying large ten thousand dollar bluffs on the river with seven high. Gus Hansen also appears regularly on the high limit Omaha tables. Online poker has brought the great game right into your home. Now you don’t need to wait for poker shows to air on tv. Every day, there is a massive money game being played online. These pros are betting houses on every turn of the card. Watch these guys bet and you will boost your poker skills.