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Gus Hansen enjoyed a marvelous year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only participant to achieve closing poker table in three of the competitions. Gus Hansen has been seen on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he bought into the game for $400, 000. You may remember one of the biggest pots in big stakes poker recorded history competing against Daniel Negreanu. He won a huge pot with 4 of a kind against Daniel’s full house. Hansen has made many televised poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the best gamblers in the world. While wagering on net poker, a different side of Hansen has emerged. He often plays in the 200/400 No Limit max buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Gus more often than not buys-in for the min of $16, 000 and gambles very weak. He sits there waiting for a decent hand and then pushes all in. I accept that Hansen is a great poker player but certainly not even close to the everyday players at 200/400NL. Unless he is penniless, he has little or no reason to play at the game with the min buy-in.

Buying in for the minimum takes most of the expertise out of deep stack poker. Gus is assumed to be one of the greatest poker players anywhere in the world but he cannot buy-in for the total dollar value. I think tv can skew our view of the real world at times. The best poker players anywhere in the world might just be guys you have never heard of before. Gus can be seen competing in web poker on Full Tilt. He generally plays in big stakes omaha hi-low and Holdem. Gus Hansen has shown himself as a tournament player. Can he use his talents in money rounds?