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Gus Hansen experienced an amazing year on the World Poker Tour where he was the only player to make it to the closing game in three of the tournaments. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he bought into the game for $400, 000. You may recall one of the largest pots in big stakes poker recorded history competing against Daniel Negreanu. Gus won a big pot with 4 of a kind against Daniel’s full house. Hansen has made many tv poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the greatest bettors anywhere in the world. While playing web poker, another side of Hansen has appeared. He frequently plays in the 200/400 No Limit maximum buy in of Forty Thousand dollars. Gus generally buys-in for the minimum of $16, 000 and plays very poorly. He sits there waiting for a decent hand and then pushes all-in. I know Gus is an excellent poker player but certainly not even close to the regular players at 200/400NL. Unless he is bankrupt, he has absolutely no reason to play at the game with the minimum buy-in.

Buying in for the minimum takes most of the ability out of deep stack poker. Hansen is assumed to be 1 of the greatest poker players in the world but he cannot buy in for the total amount. I think television can alter our view of the real world at times. The greatest poker players in the world might be guys you have won’t have heard about. Gus can be found playing net poker on Full Tilt. He usually competes in high stakes omaha/8 and texas hold’em. Gus Hansen has proven himself as a competition player. Can he use his abilities in money games?