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Gus Hansen enjoyed a wonderful year on the WPT where he was the only gambler to achieve closing game in 3 of the competitions. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he paid $400, 000 to play. You might recall one of the largest pots in big stakes poker recorded history competing against Daniel Negreanu. He secured a big pot with quads against Negreanu's full house. Hansen has made many tv poker appearances and is thought to be one of the greatest gamblers in the world. While playing internet poker, another side of Hansen has appeared. He regularly participates in the 200/400 NL max buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Gus generally buys-in for the minimum of $16, 000 and plays very poorly. He waits for a good hand and then goes all in. I believe Gus is an amazing poker player but certainly not even close to the familiar players at 200/400NL. Unless Gus is flat broke, he has no reason to settle at the game with the min buy in.

Buying in for the min takes almost all of the expertise out of deep stack poker. Gus is presumed to be 1 of the greatest poker players in the world but he cannot buy in for the total dollar value. I believe television can skew our perception of the real world sometimes. The best poker players in the world might be players you have never heard of before. Gus can be seen gambling on web poker on Full Tilt. He usually participates in big stakes omaha/8 and Holdem. Gus Hansen has shown himself as a competition player. Can he use his talents in cash games?