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Gus Hansen had a wonderful year on the WPT where he was the only one to make it to the last table in three of the tournaments. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on GSN where he paid $400, 000 to play. You might recall one of the largest pots in high stakes poker history competing against Daniel Negreanu. He won a massive pot with quads against Daniel’s full house. Hansen has made many tv poker appearances and is considered to be one of the best bettors anywhere in the world. While participating in net poker, a different side of Hansen has emerged. He frequently competes in the 200/400 NL maximum buy-in of Forty Thousand dollars. Gus generally buys in for the minimum of Sixteen Thousand dollars and gambles very weak. He sits there waiting for a good hand and then pushes all in. I accept that Hansen is a great poker player but not even close to the familiar players at 200/400no limit. Unless he is flat broke, he has little or no reason to play at the game with the minimum buy-in.

Buying in for the min takes a majority of the expertise out of big stack poker. Hansen is supposed 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 view of the real world every now and then. The greatest players anywhere in the world might just be players you have never heard of. Gus can be found competing in online poker on Full Tilt. He generally competes in big stakes omaha/8 and hold’em. Gus Hansen has shown himself as a tournament player. Can he use his talents in cash games?