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Gus Hansen enjoyed a marvelous year on the WPT 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 may recall one of the biggest pots in high stakes poker history up against Daniel Negreanu. Gus raked in a large pot with 4 of a kind against Daniel’s full house. Gus has earned many televised poker appearances and is considered to be one of the best enthusiasts in the world. While betting on net poker, a different side of Hansen has appeared. Gus frequently participates in the 200/400 NL maximum buy in of $40, 000. Gus more often than not buys in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and gambles very poorly. He waits for a good hand and then pushes all-in. I accept that Hansen is an outstanding poker player but certainly not even close to the everyday players at 200/400no limit. Unless he is penniless, he has little or no reason to play at the table with the minimum buy-in.

Playing for the min takes a majority of the skill 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 amount. I think tv can skew our perception of the real world sometimes. The greatest poker players in the world may be players you have will not have heard of before. Gus can be seen playing net poker on Full Tilt. He generally plays in high stakes omaha hi-low and texas hold’em. Gus Hansen has proven himself as a competition player. Can he back up his skills in cash games?