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Gus Hansen enjoyed a wonderful year on the WPT where he was the only one to make it to the final game in 3 of the events. Gus Hansen has appeared on High Stakes Poker on The Game Show Network where he paid $400, 000 to play. You might remember one of the largest pots in big stakes poker recorded history competing against Daniel Negreanu. Hansen raked in a large pot with 4 of a kind against Daniel’s full house. Gus has earned many tv poker appearances and is deemed to be one of the best players around the world. While wagering on web poker, another side of Hansen has emerged. Gus often participates in the 200/400 NL max buy-in of $40, 000. Hansen usually buys in for the minimum of $16, 000 and plays very poorly. He waits for a good hand and then pushes all in. I know Hansen is an outstanding poker player but not even close to the everyday players at 200/400no limit. Unless Gus is broke, he has little or no reason to sit at the game with the min buy in.

Buying in for the minimum takes a majority of the skill out of deep stack poker. Hansen is accepted to be 1 of the greatest 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 at times. The greatest players anywhere in the world may be guys you have never heard about. Gus can be seen competing in online poker on Full Tilt. He commonly competes in high stakes Omaha and Holdem. Gus has shown himself as a tournament player. Can he back up his skills in cash rounds?

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Literally huge amounts of players strive to be the next "mega star" in poker, but here is a short rundown on 4 of the more well known "great guys" of the game. Despite the fact that "nice" is associated with their names when you are playing them it’s "no more Mr. Nice guy" until they have put you out of the game!

Daniel Negreanu

In Two Thousand and Four, his tourney winnings amounted to in excess of $4.4 million and he attained two highly admired awards in the World Series of Poker Player of the Year and Cardplayer Magazine’s Tourney Player of the Year. In Feb Two Thousand and Six he was named Card Player’s Favourite Poker Player. He even still has the decency to speak to his admirers about how they could advance their own game.

Howard Lederer

Known as "The Professor" and brother of fellow poker pro Annie Duke. His accomplishments have lead to him making an instructional video named "Secrets of No Limit Hold’em" and also hosting a tournament poker show for Fox TV. As of Two Thousand and Five, his complete life time earnings exceed 2.7 million dollars.

Scotty Nguyen

Scotty is one of the most active players in poker and between 2000 and 2004 he finished in the money in well over 100 events. He’s notorious for saying "yeah baby" throughout poker matches and also credited with the term "that’s poker baby" when alluding to a particularly bad loss. As of 2006, his career earnings are almost $6 million.

Chris Ferguson

Chris has won five WSOP titles with 2 of his successes coming in Two Thousand and Three. Has the alias "Jesus" as a result of his characteristic long hair and beard, along with his ability to toss cards quick enough to cut through bananas and pickles. As of Two Thousand and Five his total poker tournament earnings exceeded 5 million dollars.