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Gus Hansen experienced an amazing year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only player to make it to the last game in three of the events. Gus Hansen has been seen on High Stakes Poker on GSN where he paid $400, 000 to play. You might remember one of the largest pots in high stakes poker history competing against Daniel Negreanu. Gus secured a large pot with quads against Daniel’s full house. Gus has earned many tv poker appearances and is considered to be one of the best gamblers anywhere in the world. While gambling on net poker, another side of Hansen has emerged. Gus often competes in the 200/400 NL maximum buy in of $40, 000. Hansen usually buys-in for the minimum of $16, 000 and gambles very poorly. He sits there waiting for a good hand and then goes all in. I accept that Gus is a great poker player but certainly not even close to the familiar players at 200/400no limit. Unless Gus is broke, he has absolutely no reason to play at the table with the min buy-in.

Buying in for the min takes almost all of the ability out of deep stack poker. Gus is presumed to be one of the greatest poker players anywhere in the world but he cannot buy-in for the full dollar value. I think television can alter our perception of the real world sometimes. The greatest poker players anywhere in the world might just be players you have will not have heard about. Gus can be seen competing in net poker on Full Tilt. He generally competes in big stakes omaha/8 and Holdem. Gus has shown himself as a tournament player. Can he back up his abilities in money games?