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Gus Hansen enjoyed an amazing year on the WPT where he was the only one to make it to the last table in three of the competitions. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he paid $400, 000 to play. You may remember one of the biggest pots in high stakes poker history against Daniel Negreanu. Gus secured a big pot with 4 of a kind against Negreanu's full house. Gus has earned many televised poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the strongest gamblers around the world. While participating in online poker, another side of Hansen has emerged. Gus often participates in the 200/400 No Limit maximum buy in of Forty Thousand dollars. Gus more often than not buys in for the min of Sixteen Thousand dollars and plays very poorly. He sits there waiting for a decent hand and then goes all-in. I accept that Hansen is an outstanding poker player but certainly not even close to the regular players at 200/400NL. Unless he is flat broke, he has absolutely no reason to play at the game with the min buy in.

Playing for the min takes most of the ability out of deep stack poker. Gus is presumed to be one of the greatest players in the world but he can't buy-in for the full amt.. I think tv can skew our perception of the real world at times. The greatest players in the world may be guys you have will not have heard about. Gus can be found wagering on web poker on Full Tilt. He normally plays in high stakes omaha/8 and texas hold'em. Gus Hansen has shown himself as a tournament player. Can he back up his talents in money games?