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Gus Hansen experienced a marvelous year on the WPT where he was the only one to achieve final game in 3 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 may recall one of the biggest pots in big stakes poker history competing against Daniel Negreanu. Gus raked in a big pot with 4 of a kind against Negreanu's full house. Hansen has made many televised poker appearances and is considered to be one of the strongest players anywhere in the world. While competing in web poker, a different side of Hansen has appeared. He regularly plays in the 200/400 No Limit maximum buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Hansen frequently buys-in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and plays very weak. He waits patiently for a decent hand and then goes all in. I believe Hansen is an outstanding poker player but not even close to the regular players at 200/400NL. Unless he is flat broke, he has no reason to sit at the game with the min buy-in.

Buying in for the min takes most of the ability out of big stack poker. Hansen is supposed to be 1 of the greatest poker players anywhere in the world but he cannot buy in for the total amt.. I think tv can alter our perception of the real world every now and then. The greatest poker players in the world might just be players you have never heard of. Gus can be seen gambling on web poker on Full Tilt. He usually participates in high stakes Omaha and hold'em. Gus has proven himself as a tournament player. Can he back up his skills in cash rounds?